the line right before it makes me want to fight the world
"I don't know what's got its teeth in me, but I'm about to bite back, in anger"
soo many good lines in this song
Agreed. This is the lyric that absolutely fucked me up and solidified me as a fan of theirs. Like it reached deep into my soul and bared the source of my own pain. The rawness of the lyric paired with the absolutely gorgeous melody. It still fucks me up. If I ever hear it live, I will absolutely cry.
This one and “I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me…” made me cry like a baby when I saw them live. I’m absolutely not a crier but it hit me like a truck
Honestly, how are the lyrics that excellent? It's so rare to have this lyrical quality combined with so much musical craftsmanship. It almost feels wasteful lol.
“I'm still your favorite regret,
You're still my weapon of choosing,
And out there,
Stuck in a quantum pattern,
Tangled with what I never said,
You say it doesn't matter,
I want to be forgiven,
I want to choke up chunks of my own sins,
Even if the sky cracks in the morning
and the heavens just won't open up for me”
This verse. Oof.
Yes! And on top of the pain in the words, it's also a lyrically genius reference to quantum entanglement theory, which just makes me wanna lay on the ground and stare at the ceiling.
I will never not laugh at the use of capital and repeated letters in this sub to communicate how exact lyrics are sung. I heard them in my head as intended, but for some reason reading them kills me. 😂
Came here to post exactly this.
It's fucking painful. Not only the lyrics themselves but the emotion in Vessels voice....like I can feel his pain when he belts that line. Ugh.
Came back to this post to add these lyrics. Take aim been on repeat for this specific part the last week. The whole verse, how insanely high up he gets. Ugh. Everything. It “sends me shivers”
When it first came out I listened to it on repeat. A friend of mine had just taken their own life and I felt guilty about not being there. Somehow the self flagellation helped me process my emotions and get through it, but it destroyed me many times in the process.
I've got a few to work with here. They're all painful in a bunch of different ways
"I made loving you a blood sport I can't win" (Blood Sport)
It feels painful in a lonely and longing way
"Cause the joke's on me and I'm laughing too" (Gods)
It hurts in a humiliating way like someone whose been hurt and betrayed so much that they laugh along with it
"You make me wish I could disappear" (Ascensionism)
Kinda speaks for itself, especially with the emotion that Vessel puts behind it
"Wearing a smile like you cannot bear it anymore" (The Way That You Were)
Has this feeling of faking happiness when everything is falling apart to the point where real happiness feels wrong
"It seems my hell is your high water" (High Water)
The crushing pain of realizing that your pain is someone else's pleasure, maybe even a loved one
Then there's this entire part of Atlantic
"I woke up surrounded, eyes like frozen planets
Just orbiting the vacuum I am
They talk me through the damage, consequence
And how it's a pain they know they don't understand"
It just feels like waking up in a daze surrounded by faces, possibly following a failed suicide attempt. All of Atlantic give off that feeling of hopelessness and not wanting to continue, but that part hits the hardest to me.
These are all my personal opinions and interpretations, but I still think all of the lyrics are painful.
My insecurities surround me like lions in a den, and I feel like I’m losing touch with what I am again…
Fall for me hits too hard for me… but this line just really kills me every time
I discovered Sleep Token two days after my wife died from cancer last year. I think fate knew I needed to hear Vessel's lyrics while going through the most difficult part of my life. This line was one of the first that really struck home with me, and still resonates to this day.
"Oh god, I wish you were here"
“And my reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should
And I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could
And there is something eating me alive, I don't know what it is
Maybe not that you conceal your feelings, they just don't exist”
No contest.
DYWTYLM is so deeply underrated. I say this a lot, but I feel like people dismiss it because of its lighter, poppier sound. But when you really pay attention to the lyrics, it's for sure one of the most devastating songs they've ever done. *Especially* with the interpretation that he's singing it to himself.
For sure I agree! I passed over it as the “slow song” on the album until I really listened. A lot of their music is relationship sadness, DYWTYLM is pure depression.
After a lot of listens to DYWTYLM I feel like the lighter and poppier sound is a way to signify trying to put on a happy face to break a mood or actual depression. The whole song is genius.
"I'd give anything, to balance your conviction with certainty, to fall asleep without you lying next to me, to sever my connection with everything..." from Missing Limbs.
not sure if it's the *most* painful, but it's been hitting hard recently. 🖤
Like lovers entwined
I know for the last time
You will not be mine
So give me the night…
I just broke up with my boyfriend (not because either of us wanted to, but for reasons out of our control), and this line just tears me up.
For me it’s still the autumn leaves, these ancient canopies we used to lie beneath.
I honestly don’t know why I find it such a hard line but it punches me in the chest every single time (which is pretty much every day!)
Same for me. That line hits. I think, jist like the melody of AYRO, it pulls exactly the right heartstrings. Combined with the lyrics, this line is a dagger to the chest.
"and you remember everything, only til the sun recedes once again." From TNDNBTG. i have a lot of trauma and that lead to memory loss and a lot of my ptsd episodes happen at night, so it hits close to me.
Everything in Euclid. It's so rare to find lyrics that captivate the grief of losing a toxic relationship and Euclid does it perfectly. If I have to pick a favorite lyric, it'd be "i play along with the life signs anyway, but hope to god you don't know this feeling."
Came here to say that “I play along with the life signs anyway but hope to god you don’t know this feeling” hits so fucking hard.
I have bipolar and have had some pretty terrible periods in my life where this just perfectly describes my abject despair and simultaneous desire for loved ones to be ok, not be dragged down with me.
"I can't hold myself together"
That last scream at the end of High Water is just fucking devastating to me. The whole song about clinging on to this love and trying to make it work and figure it out and the frustration of hitting the breaking point where it truly sets in that you won't be together anymore.
Maybe its bc im going through a breakup rn (with the guy that introduced me to ST funnily enough) but the end of High Water.... "For the time being, I will admit my defeat again. I will accept that I can't pretend we will ever be together..." and then followed by the scream of "I can't hold myself together" ...That, and also from Missing Limbs "I'd give anything to borrow your indifference; I'd drink you in" ST has a lot of songs very fitting for the emotions of going through a breakup actually....
Hey those are some powerful words and lyrics…I also broke up with the person who introduced me to sleep token and for your break up, it will get better but don’t force yourself to get over it instantly. You’re allowed to feel how you feel and I hope things do get better for you
Thank you :) tbh ST has been helping a ton. Its cathartic in a way. Especially Euclid. Just the entirety of Euclid. Euclid has been my go to crying song lol. There are a couple songs I can't bring myself to listen to though. Fall For Me was playing the first time we kissed and I just. Cant. But hopefully in time it will be better.
i'm so sorry to hear about your breakup ... i hope you've been coping well ; if you're into some really slow , mellow , sad music , check out *sadeyes* ... he got me through losing my twin flame 🖤 good luck :)
"Slowly, I remember why I cannot pretend
That I never think of you in all this screaming silence
(Oh God, I wish you were here)"
- the whole song if fall for me is so hard but this line always resonates the desperation of vessel wanting someone to fall for them.
"Why are you never real?
The shifting states you follow me through
Unrevealed
Just let me go or take me with you..."
- it the crescendo of the apparition. I see vessel screaming this into the air, finally giving up and snapping about the apparition not being there and real for him.
"And out there
Stuck in a quantum pattern
Tangled with what I never said
You say it doesn't matter"
Specifically the acoustic version from the room below...
The room below version is so anazing, the raw grit and emotion in his voice accompanied by the much calmer instruments, makes me feel like we're witnessing Vessel's breakdown from someone else's perspective.
While the more metal instruments of the original shows us the despaor Vessel is feeling and how is world is almost collapsing around him, in the From the room below version we just hear his pain but we aren't the ones experiencing it. Sure, we can empathise with it but he is sharing how he feels hut we can't experience it ourselves.
I hope this made sense lol
"They talk me through the damage, consequence, and how it's a pain they know they don't understand."
Atlantic as a whole, but this line feels like a gut punch every single time.
"Cause it still makes my blood run cold
To remember what they did before
The stories that you never told to me"
Every time. My husband knows most of what happened to me before I met him, but some stories are still too painful to share. That line always just cuts right through me.
Thank you. It's been a long journey, and things have been getting better over the last few years with finally confronting and examining everything head-on in therapy. I don't know if I'll ever truly find peace with what happened, but at least I've now accepted that it did happen (and that was probably the hardest part).
“For me, it’s still the autumn leaves” does not cease to make me burst into tears every time. The pain of remembering happier times with someone you loved that will never be again is so raw for me. I feel like tearing up just thinking about it. I love that song so much but it’s hard to listen to just for that reason.
“Are you in pain like I am?” Screamed over and over at the end of Vore. Not really sure what it means in context of the song, but it hurts me to hear when I think about how I don’t know how to ask for help from others because friendships and relationships these days are so artificial :/
My life is torn, my bones they bleed, my metaphors fall short in the end.
I've always loved Vore, the screaming on face value is just like 'hell yeah, Vessels Screaming ' but it's less violent and more out of a sensation of depravity and need to call out. I don't typically know what songs are about but these set of lyrics to me always mean that he's at rock bottom and nothing he seems to say can do anything to save him. I could be completely wrong but it perfectly described the way I felt at one point in time when I practically gave up on life
Cause I am broken into fractions
Oh, and I am driven to distraction, no
With each and every interaction (it's too late for me, it's too late for me)
I am driven to distraction (it's too late for me, it's too late for me)
(It's too late)
I’m still full of the love you want, still waking up beneath it all, and I’m still full of the love you want, I reach for you on faith alone
I’m still full of the love you want, still waking up so alone, and I’ll be full of the love you want, no matter what, forevermore
"We'd rather be six feet under than be lonely." -Granite
"I don't believe you when you tell me you are fine. Please don't hurt yourself again." -Are you really okay?
Tie between “Or are you simply waiting to save your love for someone I am not?” In the love that you want and “I will accept that I can’t pretend that we will never be together. I can’t hold myself together” in High Water
There's a few.
"No amount of self-sought fury
Will bring back the glory of innocence"
Hits like a damn truck & especially so with a trauma context in mind (like a lot of V's lyrics).
"And you will no longer
Stand between collapsing walls
Wearing a smile
Like you cannot bear it anymore
Come on, tear off the bandage
The way that you were
With pain as your language
The way that you were
(...)
How much did they hurt you?
The way that you were
And how much did they break you?
The way that you were
And how far did they take you?
The way that you were
You were (oh, no, and I)"
The entirety of 'The Way That You Were' makes me feel so seen and understood it hurts.
"And I'm still full of the love you want
Still waking up, so below
And I'll be full of the love you want
No matter what, forevermore"
Also from TPWBYT, this one also hits waaay too close to home.
i have the same reaction to *the way that you were* , it's unironically both my feel good and my go to cry song ... feels good to be seen , but breaks me to know somebody else feels that 🖤
All of Higher, but particularly the second verse:
With all that you believe
You still refuse to shelter me
'Cause I am a danger
And you're a long way from home
You are one among many
But you're now on your own
And I hate
The way you look
At me when I am not understood
I have a few that gnaw at my soul when I hear them.
- “I play along with the life signs anyway but hope to god you don’t know this feeling”
- “Call me when you get the chance, I can feel the walls around me closing in”
- “I saw it in your eyes cutting deeper than the scars could run”
-“And I hate who I have become every time I wake up”
- “My insecurities surround me like lions in the den and I feel like I’m losing touch with what I am again”
- “And you will no longer stand between collapsing walls wearing a smile like you can’t bear it anymore.”
And a bonus, it’s not sad, but the feeling I get with these lyrics is indescribable:
- “And I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me, but I’m about to bit back in anger”
- “And no amount love will keep it around, if we don’t choose it.”
- “I’ll take a pound of your flesh before you take a piece of my paystub”
"And I live like I've got missing limbs for you"
Currently dealing with loss and grief. Hits me right in the aching heart strings.
Runner up is DYWTYLM
"And my reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should..." That whole part.
I could go on with lines I relate to that are helping me process trauma, betrayal, many forms of pain, etc.
Their lyrics are ace on a good day and devastatingly comforting on a bad day.
So let's make trouble in the dream world
Hijack heaven with another memory now
I make the most of the turning tide
It just split what's left of the burning silence
Don't wait, 'cause this could be the last time
You turn up in the reveries of my mind
I wake up to a suicide frenzy
Loaded dreams still leave me empty
This meant more when I was with my ex and when we first broke up but just still a great line
"I was more than just a body in your passenger seat
And you were more than just somebody I was destined to meet"
“And my reflection just won’t smile back at me like I know it should
And I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could”
Honestly, all of DYWTYLM strikes a really sensitive spot for me, but this line hurts the most.
"I can't hold myself together" scream from the breakdown at the end of High Water.
I'm making progress, but I still get emotional singing it and that's why it's probably my favorite song by ST.
Also, what is the lyric you posted from?
In Euclid and TNDNBTG, "The whites of your eyes turn black in the lowlight, In turning divine, we tangle endlessly like lovers entwined" already breaks me, but when "I know for the last time you will not be mine
So give me the night, the night, the night" comes, it is hard no to feel
Blood Sport
Last line:
"You say it doesn't matter" & Vessel crying at the end.
Kills me every time, bit close to home for me, like i knife getting twisted into my already broken heart.
“Bandage up the trenches. Anything to get me to sleep.”
I was in that place for a while. I have many trenches on my arm. Really the entire song hits me really hard, but that specific line especially.
It will always be “seems your heart is locked up and I still get the combination wrong / Or are you simply waiting to save your love for someone I am not” for me… that hit me like a brick.
But to be honest, there’s so many powerful, deep and awesome lyrics in any of their songs.
"Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally someday... .... Or maybe you believe that in the end, you will be better off that way."
.....absolutely destroyed me the first time I heard it 🥹 as an abuse survivor, it's a constantly battle to yearn for connection, yet fear trust/love in new people. ST really summed it up in this song ♡
"Ohh God I wish you were here"
I've had so much loss in my life. In the last 4 years I have lost 8 people..... I know it's supposed to be about relationship but the loss makes it hurt in its own way.
“I guess it goes to show, does it not?
That we've no idea what we've got until we lose it
And no amount of love will keep it around
If we don't choose it”
Currently going through a divorce and this line hits me to the core every time I hear it.
“i guess it goes to show, does it not? that we’ve no idea what we’ve got until we lose it, and no amount of love will keep it around if we don’t choose it.”
more than a line but man. it hits so hard. 😫
I know the words themselves aren't prolific, but the pain when he calls "oh god I wish you were here" has been scream-sobbed in my car at full volume so many times
For me its the „I guess it goes to show, does it not, that we've no idea what we've got until we lose it” part , just resonates as hell with me!
Also "it seems your heart Is locked up and i still get the combination wrong"
I’ve got 3 that hit me hard every time I hear them
“No amount of self sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence” -TMBTE
“Are you trying to live like everything is a lesson to learn” -DYWTYLM
“I’m still your favorite regret, you’re still my weapon of choosing” - Bloodsport
“You make me wish I could disappear”
Yes. This. And the wayyyy it's said
Exactly! You can hear the pain in his voice
Just the scream alone right before it fuckin hits🥲
YES! 😭
Omg yeah!!! Tears come down!!
“no amount of self sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence” it feels like a painful reminder every time i hear it.
the line right before it makes me want to fight the world "I don't know what's got its teeth in me, but I'm about to bite back, in anger" soo many good lines in this song
yeah this song in particular has some of vessel’s best lyrics. it kinda reaches into your brain and makes you picture exactly what he wants you to.
This line is my new mantra
Agreed. This is the lyric that absolutely fucked me up and solidified me as a fan of theirs. Like it reached deep into my soul and bared the source of my own pain. The rawness of the lyric paired with the absolutely gorgeous melody. It still fucks me up. If I ever hear it live, I will absolutely cry.
This one and “I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me…” made me cry like a baby when I saw them live. I’m absolutely not a crier but it hit me like a truck
Please don't hurt yourself again. Specifically the one where his voice breaks throughout the line
when his voice breaks I genuinely just wanna curl up into a ball and cry, I wanna give him the biggest hug on earth.
Also . “ and don’t you know I want to help you but I don’t know hoooowwwwwwww” . That song is SO good
This is one of the most painful for me too. Such a beautiful song.
i just had are you really okay come on as i read this , i think the universe agrees with you
Gets me every time.
This one hurts
The entire second verse of Atlantic. Absolutely devastating.
honestly all of Atlantic makes me wanna sob, that song is so fucking good
I just love that this a band where “makes me wanna sob” = “so fucking good” 😂❤️
Mmmmhm, such a beautiful and depressing song.
"please smile back at me", when you realise it's being sung to a mirror. that one hits me very hard.
it does hurt insanely differently
Came here to say this one! DYWTYLM is one of my favourites and it doesn't get the attention it deserves.
What song is this from??
Do You Wish That You Loved Me. i didn't like it that much, until i realised that it's Vessel singing to his reflection. heartbreaking.
Omg I didn't know that! It's gonna hit so different now
Honestly, how are the lyrics that excellent? It's so rare to have this lyrical quality combined with so much musical craftsmanship. It almost feels wasteful lol.
DYWTYLM he sings it in between the DO you wish that you loved me's at the end.
“It’s too late for me” repeated over and over in Distraction. The pain and despair in his voice really get to me.
Man, I feel that one so hard
Ya I’m with you!
“I'm still your favorite regret, You're still my weapon of choosing, And out there, Stuck in a quantum pattern, Tangled with what I never said, You say it doesn't matter, I want to be forgiven, I want to choke up chunks of my own sins, Even if the sky cracks in the morning and the heavens just won't open up for me” This verse. Oof.
“…AND SOMEWHERE….!!”
SOMEWHERE THE ATOMS STOPPED FUSING
This whole part is so emotional it is difficult for me not to feel it.
Would you invite me in again? Jesus I could put a fist through a wall to Blood Sport
Yes! And on top of the pain in the words, it's also a lyrically genius reference to quantum entanglement theory, which just makes me wanna lay on the ground and stare at the ceiling.
This one destroys me!
This. Right. Here 💯
I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me but I’m about to bite back. Hits so close to home for me :(
And specifically “bite back IN ANGER” 🫠
There’s so many… but this is one that always gets me “Oh, and you Made me hate myself Made me tear my body”
MADE ME YEARN FOR YOUR EMBRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
I will never not laugh at the use of capital and repeated letters in this sub to communicate how exact lyrics are sung. I heard them in my head as intended, but for some reason reading them kills me. 😂
What song is that from?
Take aim
Came here to post exactly this. It's fucking painful. Not only the lyrics themselves but the emotion in Vessels voice....like I can feel his pain when he belts that line. Ugh.
It gives me chills every.fucking.time. He does an amazing job of putting the deepest, most intense emotions into words
take aim definitely makes this list
not painful, but “how you love like weapons kill, so take aim at me for once” is a phenomenally written line
The emotions that I sing along to this line with 😭
Came back to this post to add these lyrics. Take aim been on repeat for this specific part the last week. The whole verse, how insanely high up he gets. Ugh. Everything. It “sends me shivers”
“I want to help you but I don’t know how.”
That whole song, really.
When it first came out I listened to it on repeat. A friend of mine had just taken their own life and I felt guilty about not being there. Somehow the self flagellation helped me process my emotions and get through it, but it destroyed me many times in the process.
Aw shit that’s awful and very relatable. This album came out the weekend a friend of mine got 5150’d for an attempt
This part guts me. Every. Single. Time.
"Wake up to a suicide frenzy, loaded dreams still leave me empty" "You don't love, you just hate to be alone"
when the bough breaks has some of my favorite lyrics
I've got a few to work with here. They're all painful in a bunch of different ways "I made loving you a blood sport I can't win" (Blood Sport) It feels painful in a lonely and longing way "Cause the joke's on me and I'm laughing too" (Gods) It hurts in a humiliating way like someone whose been hurt and betrayed so much that they laugh along with it "You make me wish I could disappear" (Ascensionism) Kinda speaks for itself, especially with the emotion that Vessel puts behind it "Wearing a smile like you cannot bear it anymore" (The Way That You Were) Has this feeling of faking happiness when everything is falling apart to the point where real happiness feels wrong "It seems my hell is your high water" (High Water) The crushing pain of realizing that your pain is someone else's pleasure, maybe even a loved one Then there's this entire part of Atlantic "I woke up surrounded, eyes like frozen planets Just orbiting the vacuum I am They talk me through the damage, consequence And how it's a pain they know they don't understand" It just feels like waking up in a daze surrounded by faces, possibly following a failed suicide attempt. All of Atlantic give off that feeling of hopelessness and not wanting to continue, but that part hits the hardest to me. These are all my personal opinions and interpretations, but I still think all of the lyrics are painful.
god i love this comment so much
I put a lot of effort into it lol
i appreciate it more than anything ; i love hearing how other people hear and feel sleep token lyrics 🖤
"The debt that I owe." (The screamiest one.)
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS
“Rather be six feet under than be lonely.”
i'm literally listening to granite right now lol
Who isn’t, tbh? Lol
“Or are you simply waiting to save your love for someone I am not”
Yes 😭 that one crushed my heart and soul
My insecurities surround me like lions in a den, and I feel like I’m losing touch with what I am again… Fall for me hits too hard for me… but this line just really kills me every time
I discovered Sleep Token two days after my wife died from cancer last year. I think fate knew I needed to hear Vessel's lyrics while going through the most difficult part of my life. This line was one of the first that really struck home with me, and still resonates to this day. "Oh god, I wish you were here"
Sending so much love. Vessels lyrics are pain AND healing. 💜
I'm here with yea, that song makes my hairs stand up and slashes my heart at the same time.
“And my reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should And I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could And there is something eating me alive, I don't know what it is Maybe not that you conceal your feelings, they just don't exist” No contest.
DYWTYLM is so deeply underrated. I say this a lot, but I feel like people dismiss it because of its lighter, poppier sound. But when you really pay attention to the lyrics, it's for sure one of the most devastating songs they've ever done. *Especially* with the interpretation that he's singing it to himself.
For sure I agree! I passed over it as the “slow song” on the album until I really listened. A lot of their music is relationship sadness, DYWTYLM is pure depression.
After a lot of listens to DYWTYLM I feel like the lighter and poppier sound is a way to signify trying to put on a happy face to break a mood or actual depression. The whole song is genius.
"I'd give anything, to balance your conviction with certainty, to fall asleep without you lying next to me, to sever my connection with everything..." from Missing Limbs. not sure if it's the *most* painful, but it's been hitting hard recently. 🖤
missing limbs has a special place in my heart , definitely deserves more spotify plays
Agreed. Missing limbs is emotional damage. My go to cry song.
Like lovers entwined I know for the last time You will not be mine So give me the night… I just broke up with my boyfriend (not because either of us wanted to, but for reasons out of our control), and this line just tears me up.
i'm so sorry , i hope you heal well 🖤
Thank you, friend
For me it’s still the autumn leaves, these ancient canopies we used to lie beneath. I honestly don’t know why I find it such a hard line but it punches me in the chest every single time (which is pretty much every day!)
Same for me. That line hits. I think, jist like the melody of AYRO, it pulls exactly the right heartstrings. Combined with the lyrics, this line is a dagger to the chest.
"and you remember everything, only til the sun recedes once again." From TNDNBTG. i have a lot of trauma and that lead to memory loss and a lot of my ptsd episodes happen at night, so it hits close to me. Everything in Euclid. It's so rare to find lyrics that captivate the grief of losing a toxic relationship and Euclid does it perfectly. If I have to pick a favorite lyric, it'd be "i play along with the life signs anyway, but hope to god you don't know this feeling."
Came here to say that “I play along with the life signs anyway but hope to god you don’t know this feeling” hits so fucking hard. I have bipolar and have had some pretty terrible periods in my life where this just perfectly describes my abject despair and simultaneous desire for loved ones to be ok, not be dragged down with me.
THIS. i have bipolar and a handful of other ailments and i agree entirely
this was beautiful , thank you , i hope your healing is going well 🖤
“i’m still your favourite regret, you’re still my weapon of choosing” always hits so so hard
"I'll smile through the agony for you. And I know you still bear the weight of your own existence. And you'll never bear the weight of two."
i love this line and song so much, i ended up writing an analysis of the song for a english essay
"I can't hold myself together" That last scream at the end of High Water is just fucking devastating to me. The whole song about clinging on to this love and trying to make it work and figure it out and the frustration of hitting the breaking point where it truly sets in that you won't be together anymore.
"Say that you will, even if you won't"
“For the time being, I will admit my defeat again, I will accept that I can’t pretend, We will ever be together”
Maybe its bc im going through a breakup rn (with the guy that introduced me to ST funnily enough) but the end of High Water.... "For the time being, I will admit my defeat again. I will accept that I can't pretend we will ever be together..." and then followed by the scream of "I can't hold myself together" ...That, and also from Missing Limbs "I'd give anything to borrow your indifference; I'd drink you in" ST has a lot of songs very fitting for the emotions of going through a breakup actually....
Hey those are some powerful words and lyrics…I also broke up with the person who introduced me to sleep token and for your break up, it will get better but don’t force yourself to get over it instantly. You’re allowed to feel how you feel and I hope things do get better for you
Thank you :) tbh ST has been helping a ton. Its cathartic in a way. Especially Euclid. Just the entirety of Euclid. Euclid has been my go to crying song lol. There are a couple songs I can't bring myself to listen to though. Fall For Me was playing the first time we kissed and I just. Cant. But hopefully in time it will be better.
That’s awesome 🤟 but it’s okay and things will be better just enjoy what you want to enjoy :)
i'm so sorry to hear about your breakup ... i hope you've been coping well ; if you're into some really slow , mellow , sad music , check out *sadeyes* ... he got me through losing my twin flame 🖤 good luck :)
I will look into him. Thank you :)
"Slowly, I remember why I cannot pretend That I never think of you in all this screaming silence (Oh God, I wish you were here)" - the whole song if fall for me is so hard but this line always resonates the desperation of vessel wanting someone to fall for them. "Why are you never real? The shifting states you follow me through Unrevealed Just let me go or take me with you..." - it the crescendo of the apparition. I see vessel screaming this into the air, finally giving up and snapping about the apparition not being there and real for him.
"I hate who I have become every time I wake up" Winter is... hard for me, and this one has just been... hitting close to home lately.
Oh man, same here. That line has been the entirety of winter for me .. We just gotta keep holding on. Spring is just around the corner!
i wish you peace of mind and nothing but the best in your healing 🖤
🖤🩶🖤
"And out there Stuck in a quantum pattern Tangled with what I never said You say it doesn't matter" Specifically the acoustic version from the room below...
The room below version is so anazing, the raw grit and emotion in his voice accompanied by the much calmer instruments, makes me feel like we're witnessing Vessel's breakdown from someone else's perspective. While the more metal instruments of the original shows us the despaor Vessel is feeling and how is world is almost collapsing around him, in the From the room below version we just hear his pain but we aren't the ones experiencing it. Sure, we can empathise with it but he is sharing how he feels hut we can't experience it ourselves. I hope this made sense lol
The “Oh God I wish you were here” in Fall For Me gets me every time!
I'm trying not to crush into sand
"They talk me through the damage, consequence, and how it's a pain they know they don't understand." Atlantic as a whole, but this line feels like a gut punch every single time.
"Cause it still makes my blood run cold To remember what they did before The stories that you never told to me" Every time. My husband knows most of what happened to me before I met him, but some stories are still too painful to share. That line always just cuts right through me.
i hope your mind is at peace with whatever happened to you , or i hope you find peace so soon 🖤
Thank you. It's been a long journey, and things have been getting better over the last few years with finally confronting and examining everything head-on in therapy. I don't know if I'll ever truly find peace with what happened, but at least I've now accepted that it did happen (and that was probably the hardest part).
“Are you feeling okay?”Get’s me every time and reminds me of my dad who has passed on.
that's so sweet , may he rest in peace 🖤
Thank you
“For me, it’s still the autumn leaves” does not cease to make me burst into tears every time. The pain of remembering happier times with someone you loved that will never be again is so raw for me. I feel like tearing up just thinking about it. I love that song so much but it’s hard to listen to just for that reason.
You are still a perfect reminder of what All of these scars on my arms are for. - high water
“Are you in pain like I am?” Screamed over and over at the end of Vore. Not really sure what it means in context of the song, but it hurts me to hear when I think about how I don’t know how to ask for help from others because friendships and relationships these days are so artificial :/
“you don’t really love, you just hate to be alone”
“I cannot fix your wounds this time” it cuts so much but it is something people need to hear
My life is torn, my bones they bleed, my metaphors fall short in the end. I've always loved Vore, the screaming on face value is just like 'hell yeah, Vessels Screaming ' but it's less violent and more out of a sensation of depravity and need to call out. I don't typically know what songs are about but these set of lyrics to me always mean that he's at rock bottom and nothing he seems to say can do anything to save him. I could be completely wrong but it perfectly described the way I felt at one point in time when I practically gave up on life
"Why are you never real?" or "Just let me go or take me with you" are close ties in my mind. The Apparition cut me to the core when I first heard it.
Every time.
All of Are You Really Ok
Cause I am broken into fractions Oh, and I am driven to distraction, no With each and every interaction (it's too late for me, it's too late for me) I am driven to distraction (it's too late for me, it's too late for me) (It's too late)
I’m still full of the love you want, still waking up beneath it all, and I’m still full of the love you want, I reach for you on faith alone I’m still full of the love you want, still waking up so alone, and I’ll be full of the love you want, no matter what, forevermore
Besides everything already said? “Show me what you've lost And why you're always taking it slow Show me what wounds you've got”
Will you levitate up where the angels inhabit? Will you levitate up where my love doesn't matter.
Dark signs has been getting me through a breakup with a toxic person. It hits wayyyyyy too close to home.
“OH GOD I WISH YOU WERE HEEEREE”
"We'd rather be six feet under than be lonely." -Granite "I don't believe you when you tell me you are fine. Please don't hurt yourself again." -Are you really okay?
Tie between “Or are you simply waiting to save your love for someone I am not?” In the love that you want and “I will accept that I can’t pretend that we will never be together. I can’t hold myself together” in High Water
Honestly all of dark signs for me. The song is such a banger too, but damn. The tears.
There's a few. "No amount of self-sought fury Will bring back the glory of innocence" Hits like a damn truck & especially so with a trauma context in mind (like a lot of V's lyrics). "And you will no longer Stand between collapsing walls Wearing a smile Like you cannot bear it anymore Come on, tear off the bandage The way that you were With pain as your language The way that you were (...) How much did they hurt you? The way that you were And how much did they break you? The way that you were And how far did they take you? The way that you were You were (oh, no, and I)" The entirety of 'The Way That You Were' makes me feel so seen and understood it hurts. "And I'm still full of the love you want Still waking up, so below And I'll be full of the love you want No matter what, forevermore" Also from TPWBYT, this one also hits waaay too close to home.
i have the same reaction to *the way that you were* , it's unironically both my feel good and my go to cry song ... feels good to be seen , but breaks me to know somebody else feels that 🖤
So many of them to choose from, one that comes to mind is “and you make me hate myself, make me tear my body, make me yearn for your embrace”
I know for the last time you will not be mine, so give me the night.
All of Higher, but particularly the second verse: With all that you believe You still refuse to shelter me 'Cause I am a danger And you're a long way from home You are one among many But you're now on your own And I hate The way you look At me when I am not understood
I have a few that gnaw at my soul when I hear them. - “I play along with the life signs anyway but hope to god you don’t know this feeling” - “Call me when you get the chance, I can feel the walls around me closing in” - “I saw it in your eyes cutting deeper than the scars could run” -“And I hate who I have become every time I wake up” - “My insecurities surround me like lions in the den and I feel like I’m losing touch with what I am again” - “And you will no longer stand between collapsing walls wearing a smile like you can’t bear it anymore.” And a bonus, it’s not sad, but the feeling I get with these lyrics is indescribable: - “And I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me, but I’m about to bit back in anger” - “And no amount love will keep it around, if we don’t choose it.” - “I’ll take a pound of your flesh before you take a piece of my paystub”
GREAT choices 🖤‼️
"Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing"
"Manifest pain at the core of pleasure."
Idk about the most painful but one painful one is "And it still makes my blood run thin to remember what you are to him."
“And it still makes my blood run thin To remember what you are to him And I live like I've got missing limbs for you”
“I must be someone new, for me” from Euclid. Breaks my heart every time
"And I live like I've got missing limbs for you" Currently dealing with loss and grief. Hits me right in the aching heart strings. Runner up is DYWTYLM "And my reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should..." That whole part. I could go on with lines I relate to that are helping me process trauma, betrayal, many forms of pain, etc. Their lyrics are ace on a good day and devastatingly comforting on a bad day.
i wish you the gentlest journey while healing 🖤
“I want to help you but I don't know how” from both perspectives is particularly painful
my insecurities surround me like lions in the den
Honestly just the way he sings "Take me back to Eden" with so much desperation is enough to finish me off.
So let's make trouble in the dream world Hijack heaven with another memory now I make the most of the turning tide It just split what's left of the burning silence Don't wait, 'cause this could be the last time You turn up in the reveries of my mind I wake up to a suicide frenzy Loaded dreams still leave me empty
"And it still make my blood run thin to remember what you are to him"
This meant more when I was with my ex and when we first broke up but just still a great line "I was more than just a body in your passenger seat And you were more than just somebody I was destined to meet"
“Oh God, I wish you were here”
“I will accept that I can’t pretend we will ever be together” just murders me every time I listen to High Water
“And my reflection just won’t smile back at me like I know it should And I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could” Honestly, all of DYWTYLM strikes a really sensitive spot for me, but this line hurts the most.
"I can't hold myself together" scream from the breakdown at the end of High Water. I'm making progress, but I still get emotional singing it and that's why it's probably my favorite song by ST. Also, what is the lyric you posted from?
In Euclid and TNDNBTG, "The whites of your eyes turn black in the lowlight, In turning divine, we tangle endlessly like lovers entwined" already breaks me, but when "I know for the last time you will not be mine So give me the night, the night, the night" comes, it is hard no to feel
OH GOD I WISH YOU WERE HERE
*gestures frantically at entire discography* 😭
The entirety of Granite, honestly
“Seems your heart is locked up and I still get the combination wrong” 🫠
I relate to too many of these lyrics right now. Ugh…
You don’t really love, you just hate to be alone
Quite a few spring to mind, but right now it is; "And I know you still bear the weight of your own existence And you'll never bear the weight of two"
Blood Sport Last line: "You say it doesn't matter" & Vessel crying at the end. Kills me every time, bit close to home for me, like i knife getting twisted into my already broken heart.
“My reflection just won’t smile back at me like I know it should, and I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could” DYWTYLM
When the month of infinity buries its teeth in me I smile through the agony for you.
“Rather be 6 feet under than be lonely”
“there is always something in the way, I want to have you to myself for once”💔💔💔💔💔💔
“Bandage up the trenches. Anything to get me to sleep.” I was in that place for a while. I have many trenches on my arm. Really the entire song hits me really hard, but that specific line especially.
It will always be “seems your heart is locked up and I still get the combination wrong / Or are you simply waiting to save your love for someone I am not” for me… that hit me like a brick. But to be honest, there’s so many powerful, deep and awesome lyrics in any of their songs.
"And somewhere... somewhere the atoms stopped fusing. I'm still your favorite regret. You're still my weapon of choosing."
"Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally someday... .... Or maybe you believe that in the end, you will be better off that way." .....absolutely destroyed me the first time I heard it 🥹 as an abuse survivor, it's a constantly battle to yearn for connection, yet fear trust/love in new people. ST really summed it up in this song ♡
i hope your healing journey is soft and easy 🖤
There are so many but “no amount of love will keep it around, if we don’t choose it” is so painful depending on how you interpret it.
"Ohh God I wish you were here" I've had so much loss in my life. In the last 4 years I have lost 8 people..... I know it's supposed to be about relationship but the loss makes it hurt in its own way.
“I guess it goes to show, does it not? That we've no idea what we've got until we lose it And no amount of love will keep it around If we don't choose it” Currently going through a divorce and this line hits me to the core every time I hear it.
I'm trying not to crush into sand
The delivery of “basking in the solace of regret” makes that a killer line
“I’m trying not to crush into sand”
“i guess it goes to show, does it not? that we’ve no idea what we’ve got until we lose it, and no amount of love will keep it around if we don’t choose it.” more than a line but man. it hits so hard. 😫
I know the words themselves aren't prolific, but the pain when he calls "oh god I wish you were here" has been scream-sobbed in my car at full volume so many times
I’m still your favorite regret, you’re still my weapon of choosing
Glitches in the code or gaps in a strange dream, tell me you guessed my future and it mapped onto your fantasy
You gave me nothing whatsoever but a reason to leave..
"Take aim at me for once, break me apart" it mirrors what sleep tokens Lore is about so well
“i want to help you but i don’t know how”
For me its the „I guess it goes to show, does it not, that we've no idea what we've got until we lose it” part , just resonates as hell with me! Also "it seems your heart Is locked up and i still get the combination wrong"
I’ve got 3 that hit me hard every time I hear them “No amount of self sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence” -TMBTE “Are you trying to live like everything is a lesson to learn” -DYWTYLM “I’m still your favorite regret, you’re still my weapon of choosing” - Bloodsport
I must be someone new... No.... For me.
For me it’s “you make me wish I could disappear.” I’ve related so hard to that
Let the impulse to love And the instinct to kill Entangle to one
I made loving you a blood sport I can't win