The Grief
Echoes of Regret: Thy Against Thyself's Haunting Tale
Lyrics
This cage won't protect my heart
This confinement or restriction doesn't shield my emotions.
Skin and bones
Referring to the physical body as fragile and vulnerable.
I still can scream my lungs out
Expressing the ability to vocalize intense emotions loudly.
So maybe you can hear me
Hoping that the message reaches the intended recipient.
I'm hearing your voice
Acknowledging the presence of the other person's communication.
A whisper in my ears
Describing a faint or soft communication perceived.
You will break
Repeated emphasis on the inevitability of emotional breakdown.
You will break
-You will break
-I'm already broken
Stating a state of emotional shattering already exists.
I'm gone and you didn't say what you wanted
Indicating departure without the expression of desired feelings.
Now you feel guilty
Acknowledging the arising guilt in the other person.
You should
Asserting that the person should have spoken their feelings earlier.
You should
-You should have said when you had the chance
-You should have answered when you fucking ignored it
Criticizing the act of ignoring an opportunity for connection.
You should have hugged me in what came to be the last goodbye.
Expressing regret for the absence of a proper farewell.
And you shouldn't have wasted every chance you had in your hands
Highlighting missed opportunities for emotional connection.
I'm the voice of the dead
Claiming to represent the voice of the deceased.
I Rest In Peace, you enjoy your grief
Ironically suggesting peace for the deceased and grief for the living.
I feel nothing at all
Describing emotional numbness or lack of feelings.
Enjoy your pain
Sarcastically advising the living to enjoy their emotional pain.
I'm carrying nothing with me
Claiming to carry no emotional baggage into the afterlife.
Take the weight of regret
Encouraging the living to bear the weight of regret.
You didn't say goodbye
Pointing out the absence of a proper farewell from the deceased.
So I'm staying with you
Suggesting the lingering presence of the departed with the living.
You will break
Reiterating the inevitability of emotional breakdown.
You will break
-You will break
-You're already broken
Stating the present emotional brokenness of the person.
So, feel my presence even when I'm not there
Asking for acknowledgment of the deceased's presence even in absence.
Talk to me even when I will not hear you
Encouraging continued communication with the departed.
No! You can't hear me!(because I'm dead)
Asserting the impossibility of the living hearing the deceased.
No! You can't feel me!(I don't have to say it again)
Reiterating the inability of the living to feel the departed.
It's just the regret
Attributing the emotions of guilt and regret to the living.
Guilty and regret
-All of you crying, you had your chance!
Expressing frustration at missed opportunities for connection.
Now cry
Commanding the living to experience sorrow.
And feel
Instructing the living to feel the impact of the loss.
The loss
Summarizing the theme of loss and grief in the lyrics.
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