Calloused Mouth
Shackles of Despair: Embracing Ghosts and Embracing Decay
Lyrics
Never loved, never lost
Emphasizing a lack of experience in love or loss.
Everybody breaks, everybody falls
Highlighting the universality of breaking down and facing challenges.
Move on, stay gone
Encouraging moving forward and staying away.
Restrained forever, life in shackles
Feeling confined indefinitely, imprisoned in life.
Thrown to the wolves and fed to the jackals
Being subjected to harsh treatment and victimized.
The walls to my prison are higher than most
Symbolizing emotional barriers that are difficult to overcome.
We buried their bodies and we live with their ghosts
Living with the memory or consequences of past actions.
All that lives to dust
Everything eventually turns to nothingness.
The ground caves in around us
Feeling overwhelmed by circumstances closing in.
Wounded and weeping with none to console
Being hurt and in sorrow without anyone to provide comfort.
The mouth of the mountain will swallow you whole
A metaphor for being consumed or overwhelmed by something formidable.
Buy me a nice plot for my burial
Asking for a resting place after death.
A spot on the shady side of the hill
Desiring a peaceful spot for burial.
Everything I am will fade away
Recognizing the transient nature of existence.
But I'll still have my spot in the shade
Despite everything fading away, there's a desire for a lasting memory.
My brain is fucking rotting
Expressing mental decay or deterioration.
I'd rather lay here dying than to listen to your talking
Preferential death over enduring speech or conversation.
Inhale anger, breathe in the salt
Internalizing anger and hostility.
Hold it in, exhale out
Releasing built-up emotions or frustrations.
Into your calloused mouth
Referring to someone's insensitive or callous speech/actions.
You should be ashamed of yourself
Criticizing someone for their insensitivity or cruelty.
You should have stayed dead
Suggesting regret that someone is still alive instead of deceased.
Caught myself weeping for you, I should have killed you instead
Expressing remorse for feeling emotional about someone's existence instead of their demise.
You should have stayed dead
Reiteration of regret that the person is alive instead of dead.
Caught myself weeping for you, I should have killed you instead
Regretting emotional attachment instead of wishing harm.
Mentally slipping, physically drifting
Describing a gradual decline mentally and physically.
Mentally slipping, physically drifting
Reiterating the theme of mental and physical decline.
Mentally slipping, physically drifting
Continuing the idea of slipping mentally and drifting physically.
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