Rotten

Rotten Echoes: A Heart's Descent into Lies and Loss
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Lyrics

She cries herself to sleep

Expresses the sadness and vulnerability of the subject, who weeps herself to sleep.

Felling things she's never known before

Describes the experience of feeling emotions previously unfamiliar or unexperienced.

It tastes like rotten candy apples

Compares the taste of something bitter or unpleasant to "rotten candy apples."

It burns like all the lies she's never heard before

Refers to emotional pain, describing it as burning and linked to untruths she has never heard before.

And all her dreams are shattered

Indicates that the subject's dreams have been shattered, possibly alluding to failed aspirations or relationships.

On the floor again

Suggests a repetitive pattern of disappointment and failure, with dreams metaphorically on the floor.

And all her tries have failed

Highlights the subject's persistent efforts that have ended in failure.

And lie among the dust

Implies a sense of abandonment or neglect, with her efforts lying among the dust.

And all the time they spent apart

Addresses time spent apart from someone significant, hoping it would bring understanding or reconciliation.

She hoped would make him see that she was just the one for him

Expresses the subject's desire for recognition as the right person for the other.

But he never looked

Reveals that the other person never acknowledged or recognized her significance.

Inside himself

Suggests that the other person failed to introspect or understand his own feelings.

To find the empty heart of cold

Describes the other person's heart as empty and cold.

That wraps around his soul of black and buries him

Portrays the emotional burden and darkness surrounding the other person.

In his grave of pain

Describes the other person as buried in a grave of pain, possibly due to emotional struggles.

And all her dreams are shattered

Repeats the theme of shattered dreams, emphasizing their persistent failure.

On the floor again

Reiterates the recurring cycle of disappointment and broken dreams.

And all her tries have failed

Repeats the idea that her attempts have failed and are now among the dust.

And lie among the dust

Echoes the sense of defeat and despair in her failed efforts.

He'll never understand why she cannot see the end

Suggests the other person's inability to understand why she can't see the end of the world he created for them.

Of the world she made for them

Alludes to the world or relationship created by the other person and its impending collapse.

And everything she grew to love

Refers to the subject's affection for things that she will lose or never truly understand.

She'll never see inside that he told her only lies

Highlights the deception in the relationship, with lies told by the other person.

And convictions that he had

References the other person's false beliefs or commitments that have crumbled.

Just fell into an empty void

Describes the collapse of the other person's convictions into emptiness.

And all that really mattered

Emphasizes that what truly mattered for her to be whole again is broken on the outside.

To make her whole again

Reiterates the idea that to restore her wholeness, something significant has been broken.

Was broken outside

Suggests that the crucial element for her completeness is shattered or lost.

And never came in from the cold

Conveys that whatever was needed to bring her in from the cold has never materialized or been provided.

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