Album: Page Avenue (2002)

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• So our open wounds will bleed
  Until our veins run dry
  Now we have to take this thorn
  And tear it from our side
  Agitated at the fault line
  Still agreed to disagree
  Your connected to the heart
  But tonight we'll set you free
  
  So swallow the knife
  Carve the way for your pride
  Now our hands are tied
  The problems lie within
  So we pray for night
  To start over again
  
  Even now as i write this down
  All pretensions disappear
  Now our impulses will bite
  At the ankles of our fear
  
  So swallow the knife
  Carve the way for your pride
  Now our hands are tied
  The problems lie within
  So we pray for night
  To start over again
  
  Now our hands are tied
  The problems lie within
  So we pray for night
  To start over again
  
  Words are spoken
  Words are broken down
  
  So lets make this night be our best mistake
  So lets take the time to wipe the blood away
  Now our hands are tied
  And our world is caving in
  
  Now our hands are tied
  The problems lie within
  So we pray for night
  To start over again
  
  Now our hands are tied
  And the problems lie within
  Words are spoken
  Words are broken
  Broken Down Writer/s: ADAM RUSSELL, DAN MARSALA, JOHN FELDMANN, JOSHUA WILLS, PHILLIP SNEED, RYAN PHILLIPS
  Publisher: Red Brick Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Heather from St.louis, Mofirst of all story of the year ROCKS!!! and how do you know that they dont know what real deprression is like, i bet they do.whoever reads this probably wont believe me. but my cousin used to go to school with some of the people from story of the year. i would not lie about this. and i promise that SOTY does know what real depression is like.
• Tara from West Palm Beach, Flum okay this song is first of all about losing someone and not being able to do anything to get them back. hence their hands are tied.
  
  and what do you know about this band anyway? how do you know that they "dont even know what depression is?" why because they don't sound the way you like? maybe it's because you don't know them. the band as a whole has nothing to do with depression. they are regular people who have their own lives that you probably know nothing about unless you are in them.
• Brett from Jacksonville, Flwho are you to say that? you don't know them personally...so how would you have any idea if they know what real depression is like
• Shawna from Cleveland, OhIsn't this song more of a figurative thing? SOTY is awesome. I don't really think they wrote a song about slitting your wrists. "So our open wounds will bleed/until our veins run dry" is more just a metaphor for how they're feeling. Sorta like they have a problem thats going to keep bothering them until it pushes them over the edge. I think.
• Kevin from Vorrhees, Nji bet this band doeset know what real depression is like

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