I wrote this song on Wednesday 23-2-11. haha :) It’s about someone who i used to be friends with and overtime the friendship has gently faded out. It’s meant to be a haunting song, i imagine it as someone whispering and talking behind your back and therefore i wanted the song to be ‘dark’ and slightly creepy.
The first verse is about the face to face encounter, basically saying everything that you have too say just say it too my face, but the person being too much of a coward to actually say anything.
The chorus is the more the general overview, both of you know that ‘the end’ is coming and it’s saying ‘we are going to become strangers’ only mixed up a bit to make ‘strangers here we come’. The walls echoing bit is about the person making sarky little stupid comments when you talk under their breath.
The second verse with the ‘web of thorns’ is a reference to Jesus dying on the cross, it’s slightly twisted imagery, but it’s expressing how at least i never put on a front and pretended to be something i was not whilst with that person. I didn’t ‘change’ into a different person and be a friend to their face etc. i just said it how it was.
The middle 8 is basic breakdown of that person, self explanatory.
the final verse-the ‘monster in you head’ part is definitely my favourite part of the song, i believe we all have monsters in our heads, we are all bitches, we are all everything that we don’t want to be. The ‘picking at your bones’ was something the person once said to me and i changed the meaning to fit the song, it means that even if you are down, at your very weakest, this certain person would still pick further and knock you down.
FULL LYRICS:
What do you want to say to me
The carpet beneath you feet thick with words you can’t bring yourself to speak
Your lies shiver out of your lips
Look me in the face when you tell me this
Chorus:
I saw the glint in your eye as you looked away
The walls are echocing your side notes on everything that I say
Don’t leave me hanging on your every word
Strangers here we come as a storm is brewing haven’t you heard?
Stab me in the back with your backward glance
But I will walk away with pride
I didn’t like being a pece of furniture in your negative life
I shouldn’t have caved, so easily. (whispers are dragging at my feet)
Candles on the table burning a hold where you heart used to be
Now I see straight through your lies and your perfect mirage
Your web of thorns is pulling at my backbone, lucky me I have one
Before you start pointing fingers make sure your own are clean
You always wanted love but you never gave out any of your own
You always wanted love, but you were to selfish to shed any of you own
Sometimes people tell you that they care and sometimes, people lie to make you think they care
Both choruses
Who will love the monster in your head.
Who picks at your bones, don’t stop until your dead, till your dead
Who will love the monster in your head
The monster in your head, in your head, in your head in my head.
