Lyrics
Soft, pure, perfect in your ignorance
Describing someone as soft, pure, and perfect in their ignorance.
Sweet, calm, peaceful in its lack of alarm
Highlighting the serenity and lack of alarm in a state of calm and sweetness.
Young, new, so eager to shed it's thin skin
Referring to youthfulness and eagerness to shed one's innocence or naive state.
Prime, ripe, ready to be taken in
Describing a state of readiness, being prime and ripe for experiences.
Deaf, dumb, blind within your innocence
Emphasizing a state of ignorance, being deaf, dumb, and blind within innocence.
Be warned, use your charms before they're spent
Warning to use one's charms before they are exhausted or no longer effective.
With every action I grow
Expressing personal growth with every action taken.
With every failure I learn
Highlighting learning opportunities from every failure experienced.
With every second I know
Accumulating knowledge with the passage of time.
That all things in time will turn
Philosophical reflection on the inevitability of change over time.
With everything that I earn
Signifying the value of earned achievements.
And every movement I make
Emphasizing the impact of personal actions and movements.
While pretty boys on MTV sing baby, baby, baby
Critique of mainstream culture, mentioning pretty boys on MTV and their superficial lyrics.
Sheep that you are
Labeling the listener as a follower, a sheep.
What you don't see
Highlighting unseen struggles, represented as a tissue of scars.
Tissue of scars
Emphasizing the remnants or consequences of past experiences.
What's left of me
Metaphorically describing what is left of the person.
Dirt in your throat
Symbolizing hardship or difficulty as dirt in one's throat.
Burnt skin of time
Describing the impact of time on the physical self, burnt skin.
Throw the weak from the boat
Advocating a harsh stance, discarding the weak and leaving the wasted behind.
And leave the wasted behind
Reiterating the theme of leaving behind what is deemed unproductive.
Blast furnace in my heart
Metaphorically expressing intense emotions, possibly passion or pain.
Blast furnace in my heart
Repetition for emphasis on the presence of a blast furnace in the heart.
You want it
Expressing a desire or need for the intense emotions represented by the blast furnace.
You need it
Stating a necessity for the intense emotions represented by the blast furnace.
You live it
Asserting that intense emotions are lived and experienced.
You breath it
Highlighting the integral nature of intense emotions, suggesting they are breathed in.
You suck it
Describing a consuming relationship with intense emotions, sucking them in.
You spit it
Illustrating the act of rejecting or expelling intense emotions.
It owns you
Suggesting that intense emotions have control over the individual.
Admit it
Encouraging acknowledgment of the power intense emotions hold.
You lick it
Metaphorically describing an intimate interaction with intense emotions, licking.
You choke it
Depicting a struggle with intense emotions, choking on them.
It owns you
Reiterating the idea that intense emotions have control over the individual.
Provoke it
Suggesting the act of provoking intense emotions.
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