Lyrics Meaning

We sat together as a group and went through the lyrics of our chosen song. We put our ideas together to come up with this interpretation of the lyrics:

Shadows settle on the place, that you left
Our minds are troubled by the emptiness

- Someone's gone, dead, but it's hard to believe that they're gone.

And if you're still breathing, you're the lucky ones
'Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs

- Breathing easily, no burden, but barely breathing, or breathing with difficulty, meaning they're burdened and it's hard to do something so simple as breathing.

Setting fire to our insides for fun
Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong
The lovers that went wrong

- Trying to deal with the pain by drinking or getting high, and trying to find comfort with people that you've already had relationships with, trying to reconcile with them.

We are the reckless
We are the wild youth
Chasing visions of our futures
One day we'll reveal the truth
That one will die before he gets there

- Life as the youth, having fun, breaking rules, etc, while trying to be mature, and trying to get there, but obviously someone hasn't made it to adulthood, they've died.

And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones
'Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone

- Felling pain, bleeding, but because of this person's death, they've gone hard, they've lost their ability to feel things.

We're setting fire to our insides for fun
Collecting pictures from the flood that wrecked our home
It was a flood that wrecked this

- Something big, something that couldn't have been stopped. Our home, our place of rest, It was personal.

And you caused it
And you caused it
And you caused it

- blaming somone, obviously, the person that killed or caused the death of the friend or boyfriend, or blaming the other youths for being so immature, or even herself or her friends for it. Or blaming the person that died, they're fault for making her be like this.

Well I've lost it all, I'm just a silouhette
A lifeless face that you'll soon forget
My eyes ae damp from the words you left
Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest
Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest

- She's no longer who she used to be, just a shell. Just another face lost in the crowd to the person that killed her (boy)friend. When they said something in accordance to the death, it completely shattered her, her chest or heart broken.

And if you're in love, then you are the lucky one
'Cause most of us are bitter over someone

- Self explanatory, if you can love, you're lucky, she can't as she's still distraught over the person she lost.

Setting fire to our insides for fun
To distract our hearts from ever missing them
But I'm forever missing him

- Trying to forget the pain, or at least, putting it off for awhile through drinking or drugs, but she'll never let him go, she'll never forget him, she'll always mis him.


And you caused it
And you caused it
And you caused it


- It's all your fault. You caused this pain, his death, you made this happen.