Album: Octahedron (2009)

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• Do you remember how you wore that dress?
  It slipped my sight beneath the eyelids
  Do you remember what you said to me?
  What course has given you the right, to stray?
  And in your living tomb, I'm stuck but safe
  The clocks are ticking fast with every breath
  
  Since we've been wrong
  I've been part awake
  Since we've been wrong
  You will never ever know me
  What took you so long?
  I'm not sure all the way
  But my heart, it asks just one more time
  Are you still a mess?
  
  One day a rain will come to wash away
  The earth that held us was no island
  I have become ingrown inside this skin
  I found a way out through those eyelids
  When all the days become a castaway
  I seem to think I don't belong here
  
  Since we've been wrong
  I've been part awake
  Since we've been wrong
  You will never ever know me
  What took you so long?
  I'm not sure all the way
  But my heart, it asks just one more time
  Are you still a mess?
  
  I don't belong here
  I shouldn't stay
  The flowers inside me grow as empty
  The walls between us
  Will never break
  Just seal it shut, it grows empty
  
  Since we've been wrong
  I've been poured away
  Since we've been wrong
  You will never ever know me
  What took you so long?
  I'm not sure all the way
  Since we've been wrong
  I've been part awake
  Since we've been wrong
  You will never ever know me
  What took you so long?
  I'm not sure all the way
  But my heart, it asks just one more time
  Are you still a mess? Writer/s: Cedric Bixler, Omar Rodriguez
  Publisher: MUSIC SALES CORPORATION
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• I Know I Don't Know, But I Care To Know, Despite Knowing I Probably Never Will. from ZionMost people interpret it as a forlorn love song but and I'm sure it is, but it's still a metaphor. It's about fidelity. What I hear perhaps out of delusion and ignorance, realizing TMV are serendipitous, and socially untrustworthy, is: A lament from a spirit of faith toward its object, like a demiurge. I also notice the official lyrics in the reference to a "living tomb" an obvious reference to being trapped in a doomed relationship or household, state. "But in your living tomb. I'm stuck but safe." However I strongly believe this is wrong it sounds like and makes more sense when he says stuck NOT safe. He is contradicting the assumption of his subject by calling it a living tomb and describing it as unsafe and prison like. This is a person describing the existence of a spirit in a mortal form. As many of the other lyrics discuss the dichotomy of being spirit in flesh. "I'll find a way out through those eyelids" A direct reference to astral projection intended to be interpreted as metaphoric of an estranged lover fantasizing about leaving the relationship or at least checking out mentally. Perhaps it was meant to be sold as a pop song which I find genius, it's actually about schism and the reciprocal wavering of faith.and infidelity. Perhaps a forlorn lover gradually losing fidelity, as they perceive changes(not necessarily cheating or even faults) in their partner as a betrayal of some kind, and or also perhaps a deity losing faith in its creation as it learns to sin against its own purpose..even while locking away their understanding of divinity in a dead religion. "Just seal it shut, it GROWS empty".. if that's not a lyric describing dissipation and entropy I don't know what is.) TMV may have tried to write a mundane love song but they just couldn't do it. Guys here's a tip: you want to write a "normal" love song next time probably don't compare it to being entombed.

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