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Dec 20, 2015
"Dark" seems to be the theme of this song. I think that the dark means harsh times of struggle.
Picture yourself in a forest in the pitch black dark of night. There is one small light, always moving and going somewhere, and wherever it shines is the only place you can see, with nowhere else to go, you follow the light. The light that has been guiding you just extinguished, and now it's dark all around, you need that light to go anywhere, otherwise you're stuck in the dark, can't see to go on.
As I said, the dark means harsh times, and the only hope for him is that one person being spoken to in the song, they are the light. When that person stops guiding and helping him, there is no hope for him. Now they are gone, there is only darkness (harsh times of strife) nothing more, and no matter what direction he goes, it's still dark all the same.
Dec 20, 2015
Dec 20, 2015
Dec 20, 2015
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You're the cause, the antidote
The sinking ship that I could not let go
The sinking ship that I could not let go
"You're the cause" suggests that this person being referred to is the reason for his suffering. "the antidote" suggesting that the person is also a way of fixing things. "The sinking ship that I could not let go" appeals to me as something or someone potentially bad that he can't abandon.
Dec 20, 2015
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In the dead of night you went dark on me
From later lines, I think that the person being spoken to was helping him with his struggles but no long. "In the dead of night" meaning the worst and hardest times, "you went dark on me" meaning his only light (which is this person) has now gone dark and isn't helping him anymore.
Dec 20, 2015
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I could lie awake just to watch you breathe
For me, this is quite a hard line to make meaning of. I believe that there is a deeper meaning to this line than the denotation, it's just unclear to me. Through speculation, I think it means that it satisfies him to see the person living a normal life, much different to the struggles he's going through. I still think about this sometimes and it is still very much up for debate.
Dec 19, 2015
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But I found in you what was lost in me
He is saying that this person still possesses a positive emotion he used to have before things went down hill. It could remind him of his old and happier self before his life got worse. Something in his life took away this positive emotion, but the person being spoken to still has it.
Dec 19, 2015
Dec 19, 2015
Dec 19, 2015
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There's no hate, there's no love
Only dark skies that hang above
Only dark skies that hang above
"There's not hate, there's no love" Meaning no significant feelings to and from most people anymore, like people just don't care about each other. "Only dark skies that hang above" Current lack of love and compassion is leaving the world gloomy and dull, not how today's civilization was meant to be.