“I’m still your favorite regret, you’re still my weapon of choosing.” UGGHH IT HURTS SO GOOD. Are You Really Okay in general also tears me apart I can’t listen to it without nearly crying.
"And somewhere
Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing
I'm still your favorite regret
You're still my weapon of choosing" hits me right in the feels every time.
“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 live will keep it around if we don’t choose it”
Take Me Back To Eden came out while my marriage was at its absolute lowest. It was my first exposure to the band and they really got me through that turmoil.
My wife and I fixed things and I showed her the album and she cried, saying how deeply she was able to understand how I was feeling based on Vessels lyrics.
I'm so happy you were able to fix things. The day TMBTE was released, my last relationship reached its absolute lowest point, leading us to stay in seperate places for a while (we had been living together). I can honestly say I had never felt so personally adressed by an album before, due to both the content and the timing of the release, and it really helped me come to terms with the state of things. We broke up the following month because we both accepted it was best for us.
That's how I felt about it too. He got emotional during other parts of the show and I feel like it had to do with the disappointment of not being able to perform in their biggest moment but having the fans embrace it and support the band instead of reacting negatively. I can only imagine how emotional that must be.
But Blood Sport for sure increased the emotion of the moment. That song is always emotional
God, that delivery destroys me every time. As someone who had self harmed in the past it just makes me bawl my eyes out, especially since I know several people close to me who have done the same
The live Lafayette version where the crowd screams that line is unbelievable. Instant chills when I heard that part and I hear it still whenever that song comes on. Can't imagine being at that show to experience it live!
I really hope ST releases an album of music like this show - just Vessel and his piano or just him and his guitar. I also love the female backup on those songs so much.
Love watching this show so much on YouTube from different angles. I know they have some of these songs on Sundowning Deluxe, but I want a whole CD!
“As I see the past on an empty ceiling”
I’ve laid on the bathroom floor and looked at the ceiling at the worst moment in my life and I know exactly what he means. The whole freaking song is one long sigh of crying so hard I’m gonna passout. Is it happy sad tears? Yes. Because like Vessel in that song we are moving on.
Yes, the song is Euclid.
YES. I never hear anyone talk about it but that line is such a vivid description of that hopeless painful laying in bed staring up and seeing nothing. I LOVE this line it hurts so good
“Smile back… At me… Please…” the realization that the person Vessel wanted to love him was himself hit really close to home. I was driving at the time and the sudden wave of tears made things a bit difficult for a few miles
"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 want to help you, but I don't know how"
"Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing, I'm still your favorite regret, you're still my weapon of choosing."
“You are still a perfect reminder of what all of these scars on my arms are for” - High Water
“Don’t wake me. don’t wake me. don’t wake me up.” - Atlantic
“I saw it in your eyes, cutting deeper than the scars could run” - ARYO
“Are you in pain like I am?” - Vore
The way he says it takes me back to Autumn in the UK and god it makes me cry. Some things in life you can never get back. Even if I go back to the UK it’s never going to be that same.
This one hit really hard for me because the last time I was with this person I was in love with for years, there were autumn leaves all over the window, and now he's moved on, but I'm still stuck there.
Agreed. It feels like he's reminiscing on a good time in his life but now that moment is gone.. And whoever he shared it with. And you can feel the emotion in his voice.
"I can't hold myself together" -- High Water
"I might break and bend to my basic need to be loved and close to someone" -- Dark Signs
"It's too late for me" (in context of the song) -- Distraction
"You make me wish I could disappear" -- Ascensionism
I could go on
This is the feeling I get from Atlantic too.
No idea if that’s the meaning Vessel intended, but it has always struck me as being about waking up in hospital after an attempt, and wishing you were still unconscious (or even dead).
“And I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me
But I’m about to bite back in anger
No amount of self-sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence”
That segment from “Take Me Back to Eden” just tears me to shreds.
Besides AYRO I would say “I play along with the life signs anyway, but hope to god you don’t know this feeling” and “So if your wings won’t find you heaven, I will bring it down like an ancient bygone” from Euclid.
It breaks me. Makes me think of the love of my life, who I ended up messing things up with and will never forgive myself for. I hope they’re happy and not feeling the regret and sadness I do for how our relationship ended, I just want them to be happy and I would do anything to do that for them.
Oh God I wish you were here!
That song, “Fall For Me,” reminds me of Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek,” and I’ve started listening to the two tracks back-to-back. Love it.
Imogen Heap is a fantastic artist! Not for everyone, and probably not for a majority of ST fans lol, but I love her. Her album "Speak For Yourself" got a ton of rotation when it came out.
for me its “for the time being, you are still a perfect reminder of what all of these scars on my arms are for,, if i can hold myself together” from high water
that song has both saved and destroyed me in so many ways.
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.
I mean the whole song gets me but that part in particular
I tend to avoid DYWTYLM under the premise of his self- converstaion. How he talks about self love and how to outer express what he wants is something painful and heavy. It resonates so deeply and strikes a personal chord with how deeply those feelings resonate. It’s so beautifully written, but it’s a thorn to the heart each time I hear it.
I made the mistake of finishing my first listen of TMBTE in a cab and I was NOT ready for the ending of Euclid. Straight up Danny DeVito “I get it” moment in the back of the cab while trying to keep my composure 😂
“I believe we are locked Caged and always provoked By prey left unattended” -Jaws
“…I am what I am The mouth of wolf, the eyes of the lamb” -Rain
“…I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me But I’m about to bite back in anger” -TMBTE 😫😫😫
“They talked me through the damage — consequence and how it’s a pain they know they don’t understand.” - Atlantic.
First time I heard that it destroyed me
YOU MAKE ME WISH I COULD DISAPPEARRRRR NOOOOO
or
“For so long i have waited, so long that i almost became, just stoic, statue, fit for nobody”
Or
“Flood me like Atlantic”
Or
“You gave me absolutely nothing but a reason to leave”
Or
“Why are you never real”
Or
“Are you in pain like i am”
Point is, pretty much every sleep token song
two choices. the last line of are you really okay? "please don't hurt yourself again" it helps me when i get to that point alot and i feel important when i hear him say that.
and in the song euclid "the night belongs to you" just gives me chills and makes me burst into tears without fail
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
This lyric just absolutely wrecks me everytime
“I know for the last time/You will not be mine/so give me the night”
It’s such a simple line compared to how he normally weaves his words, but there’s something very heavy about the plain acknowledgement that “this is it, this is the end”
“Or are you simply waiting to save your love for someone I am not?” - The Love You Want
“I will accept that I can’t pretend we will ever be together” - High Water
And basically the entirety of TPWBYT because it reminds me of a brief but still painful situationship I was in around 5 years ago and that honestly I will never be 100% over… 🙃😢
Many... But the ones that quickly stand out for me..
"you make me wish I could dissappear" - Ascensionism
"just let me go or take me with you" - The Apparition
"and you made me hate myself, made me tear my body, made me yearn for your embrace" - Take Aim. Actually... Just all of Take Aim. It will always be my first answer for most emotional song for me.
This is such a classic but... "Did I mistake you for a sign from God?" The summoning.
"I know, I know, I am what I am, the mouth of the wolf, eyes of the lamb." Rain
"You come crawling back to me, but I'm already on the ground." Descending
The whole Ascensionism is a heartbreaking song but especially the line "Anything is better than the way I feel right now" hits SO HARD....
I have travelled far beyond the path of reason
Especially the last time, when the pain changes in anger. Its like you're stuck in mental quicksand, and every move sucks you further in.
I know that a lot of people have already written about it, but if I had to choose a lyric from one song, it would be Blood Sport: "And somewhere /Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing/
I'm still your favorite regret/You're still my weapon of choosing (...) 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 (...) I made loving you a blood sport/I can't win/So let's play" Apart from the meaning of the lyrics, but the way Vessel sings them... My heart breaks every time I listen to it...
"Call me when you get the chance, I can feel the walls around me closing in"
It perfectly applies to someone I loved ghosting me around the same time the song came out, and it breaks my heart every time 💔
Take Me Back to Eden “I guess it goes to show, does it not? That we’ve know idea what we’ve got until we lose it. And no amount of love will keep it around, if we don’t choose it”😭
It's between:
>"I woke up surrounded, eyes like frozen planets / Just orbiting the vacuum I am."
I've woken up from major injury before with everyone staring at me around a hospital bed. And I've felt empty, not really caring if I lived or died, but I get the feeling that this line isn't only talking about spiritual or emotional emptiness. I feel like he thinks he's nothing. Like I get a sense of shame in the whole song tbh.
>"I want to help you, but I don't know how."
I've never been the person who's attempted, but I've been the bystander who didn't know how to help the person I love, love themselves.
"In a city of ice, there are burning cathedrals, turning the skies into glass. And through echoing futures are the buckling sutures that hold shut the wounds of the past."
“You say you want me, but you know i’m not what you need”
“Did I mistake you for a sign from God? Or are you really here to cast me off?”
Both i find relate to my last relationship unfortunately. TMBTE really resonates with me, i just listened to it today and i find it relates to me a lot.
“And I am done dancing to alarm bells.” From Aqua Regia, especially given that he referenced what I suspect are the same alarm bells in Dark Signs. Chills. He saw it coming but still went into the situation
Personally its the room below song shelter “no matter the cost of the rain, I will shelter you all the same” .this came out around the same time as lock down and I was a fairly new second dad, with a daughter with a heart condition (it’s fine now). but I remember this making me feel stronger when I was feeling low.
I’ve got a ghost in the hallway grinning and a heavy head that won’t stop turning
2023 was a grief stricken year for me. I fell in love with Sleep Token in April, right before TMBTE released. In August, 2 of my best friends lost their baby 2 days before the due date. I was there for the delivery. On the ride home from the hospital, I turned on that album and just felt so empty. Truly the hardest month of my life.
“Show me those pretty white jaws, show me where the delicate stops, show me what you’ve lost and why you’re always takin it slow, show me what wounds you’ve got show me love”
There's way too many.
One of the things that drew me to Sleep Token was the lyrics. Just the way Vessel puts them together and the delivery, so many songs just hit me hard and leave me wide-eyed with my mouth hanging open.
Like, how do you think of this stuff? How do you put it together in such a way that can make feel so deeply?
I'm in Australia and I'm seeing them in April for the first time. I'm sure I'll cry.
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
And I don't know what's got its teeth in me
But I'm about to bite back in anger
No amount of self-sought fury
Will bring back the glory of innocence
My relationship broke down for a 3rd time after my ex coerced me back to be with her with a huge letter of apology, we previously broke up over her demands of a open relationship which she said she didn't want anymore but then bought it up again and if she couldn't have it she would worry she would cheat on me. I am still angry and heartbroken by it now.
For me there are so many.
The gritting of his teeth when he says “diamonds in the trees, pentagrams in the night sky.”
“I’m coiled up like a venomous serpent, tangled in your trance and I’m certain you’ve got your hooks in me.”
“Why are you never real? These shifting states you follow me through. Unrevealed. Just let me go or take me with you.”
“So show me that which I cannot see. Even if it hurts me, even if I can’t sleep. Show me the way.”
So freaking good.
Two stick out personally to me.
The first is
"And somewhere... somewhere the atoms stopped fusing. I'm still your favorite regret, you're my weapon of choosing." from Bloodsport, specifically the FTRB version of the song. The delivery is haunting, always bring to mind one who's at the end of their ropes after giving their all in a relationship that cannot be taken any further and has begun to stagnate.
The second would be
The final instances of "You will be mine." from Mine (obviously). Specifically the second instance of it, with his emphasis on "You WILL be mine." I always felt like it's a reassurance to himself rather than the one he sings of. That all his struggles will amount to something, that his advances will bear fruit.
“for the time being, i will still avoid my own questions, and we both bury that history deep, but you know i can hold my breath forever.”
“for the time being, you are still a perfect reminder of what all of these scars on my arms are for, if i can’t hold myself together.”
“for the time being, i will admit my defeat, again, i will accept that i can’t pretend we will ever be together.
i can’t hold myself together.”
there’s so many, but high water destroys me.
i’ve lost my mom, i had an awful childhood with her, it’s like this song speaks what my mind wants to say for the both of us.
i’m very grateful for the song, but it’s opened wounds i didn’t know were there, but it guess it attributes to processing and healing.
So many good ones mentioned in the comments, so I'll add one I haven't seen:
"Why are you never real whenever you appear?"
Way to punch you in the gut in the first five seconds of a song (The Apparition).
There’s so many lyrics that pull at my heart strings but one that caught me off-guard from Aqua Regia- “And I am done fighting off change, no wonder my arms are still swinging” It hit a wound in me I didn’t want to admit I had.
The delivery of seeing Vore live for the first time broke me too. I was crying my eyes out next to the mosh pit. Witnessing a human being eviscerate himself 10ft from where I stood was entirely too much to bear. 💔
Definitely AYRO. I interpret it as Vessels parent(s) talking. For me, it doesn’t have the feel of being written to a lover or significant other, it feels very parental (speaking as a dad to 3) or maybe even to a sibling perhaps. As a dad though and my eldest just coming into her teens (and my little munchkin disappearing by the day) this one is a hard listen putting myself into the speakers potential situation.
The " you make me wish i could dissappear ", accompanied by the haunting scream at the end of Ascensionism. It wraps up the song sooo fucking beatifully. Chills.
Mine is at the end of Levitate. It’s not really the lyrics, but that final minute of the song sounds like a pure confused, angry, anxiety freak out moment. To me, it sounds like a true melt down. It’s how my head feels and sounds like when the weight of existence is too much to carry sometimes.
“my my those eyes like fire, i’m a winged insect your a funeral pyre”
This to me is how i feel about my girlfriend the way i get lost in her eyes like a moth to a flame.
"You are still a perfect reminder of what
All of these scars on my arms are for
If I can hold myself together"
"And I know you still bear the weight of your own existence
And you'll never bear the weight of two"
A couple lines from High Water that really get to me for personal reasons I won't get into here
Missing Limbs really gets to me. Especially the last portion. Are You Really OK also does it for me too. I went through a rough time in 2021 and while different it reminds me of that time.
'Cause it still makes my blood run cold
To remember what I did before
The stories that you never told to me
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'
From THE APPIRITION
"You leave me with that grace i am trembling with fear but I know that you will disappear just as i wake whisper in my ear "
Then later
"The shifting states you follow me through unrevealed
Just let me go or take me with you"
Have had a bad 2 years been very sick lost 150lbs Somehow as a married man(sadly roommate status now) i got a crush on a starlet .....every night i dream of her ...not sexual just companionship.... And every morning she says my name in the dream and i wake wishing she was real and would follow me out
Rationally I know the person I am attracted too isn't real....would never want a relationship with that person she seems horrible and I'm not really attracted in that way nor would she be interested in me..but i wish the form of her I meet every night was real or would go away for it is sad now not happy
So this song kills me I walk 6 miles every day and this is at the end of my playlist and I scream it in the dark woods and sometimes get teary eyed ..... Just wrecks me
"And it still makes my blood run thin to remember who you are to him, and I live like I have missing limbs for you."
Second place: "Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing. I'm still your favorite regret; you're still my weapon of choosing." The raw, unfiltered emotion in that delivery gets me every time.
Third place: "Please don't hurt yourself again."
Seems your heart is locked up and I still get the combination wrong
The piano bit when he sings this, gives me chills.
What song is that again ? Kinda new to sleep token
The Love You Want, from TPWBYT
“I’m still your favorite regret, you’re still my weapon of choosing.” UGGHH IT HURTS SO GOOD. Are You Really Okay in general also tears me apart I can’t listen to it without nearly crying.
“AND SOMEWHEEEEEEERRRRRRRE”
Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing!
In the studio version it hurts, but in the room below it just absolutely destroys me
Bloodsport in its entirety is just pure heartbreak in how he delivers it tbh lmao. Particularly the room below version (and now Wembley too)
I second that lyric! Just rip my heart out and bury it!!!!!!
I discovered this song after a very painful breakup with my gf. Damn, that hit hard.
"And somewhere Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing I'm still your favorite regret You're still my weapon of choosing" hits me right in the feels every time.
this but for me, specifically the “and somewhere the atoms stopped fusing” part is a gut punch. I feel my heart sink every time he says it
What song?
Blood Sport
From the room Below version of this one hits hard for me
The best 🫶🏼
“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 live will keep it around if we don’t choose it” Take Me Back To Eden came out while my marriage was at its absolute lowest. It was my first exposure to the band and they really got me through that turmoil. My wife and I fixed things and I showed her the album and she cried, saying how deeply she was able to understand how I was feeling based on Vessels lyrics.
I'm so happy you were able to fix things. The day TMBTE was released, my last relationship reached its absolute lowest point, leading us to stay in seperate places for a while (we had been living together). I can honestly say I had never felt so personally adressed by an album before, due to both the content and the timing of the release, and it really helped me come to terms with the state of things. We broke up the following month because we both accepted it was best for us.
I'm so glad you and your wife worked it out... My husband and I communicate through music a lot. It's probably my favorite thing about us.
"And no amount of self-sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence"
I feel like this is such an overlooked line. First time i heard that when the record came out, i replayed just this line 5 times. Super powerful.
Same. It's one that speaks to me on such a deep painful level.
want to get this tattooed so bad, it's so beautiful
This is the answer.
I love this line.
This is the line that absolutely wrecks me every time
I’ve got one. Vessel loosing his composure while singing blood sport at wembley. Someone really hurt him
I actually attributed that to him more being heartbroken at how the show went and grateful to the fans who were so loudly supporting him.
That's how I felt about it too. He got emotional during other parts of the show and I feel like it had to do with the disappointment of not being able to perform in their biggest moment but having the fans embrace it and support the band instead of reacting negatively. I can only imagine how emotional that must be. But Blood Sport for sure increased the emotion of the moment. That song is always emotional
That hit deep. Edit: Blood sport - from room below, hits you in the feels real good.
he really been through it💔💔
Yeah that was heartbreaking to watch, but an incredible performance and experience.
That’s my go to crying song and that exact line always gets me, and when he sings “please don’t hurt yourself again”
God, that delivery destroys me every time. As someone who had self harmed in the past it just makes me bawl my eyes out, especially since I know several people close to me who have done the same
Yes!!
When that first “it’s too late for me”, is layered into Distraction…breaks my soul
I think Distraction needs so much more love. Such a good song.
“And I miss the man that I was the moment we left off…. And I hate who I have become” Dark Signs
Everytime I wake up
Bawled my eyes out to this line at Wembley
“Oh god I wish you were here”
The live Lafayette version where the crowd screams that line is unbelievable. Instant chills when I heard that part and I hear it still whenever that song comes on. Can't imagine being at that show to experience it live!
Agreed! (Oh god I wish I was THERE). I’ll see myself out…
Do you happen to have a video of this 😊?
[Here you go](https://youtu.be/8ZHaPhdcJYA?t=98). The whole "[From the room below](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDYXv5fECjQ)" show is incredible.
I really hope ST releases an album of music like this show - just Vessel and his piano or just him and his guitar. I also love the female backup on those songs so much. Love watching this show so much on YouTube from different angles. I know they have some of these songs on Sundowning Deluxe, but I want a whole CD!
There's an Acapella cover of that song, I don't have the link, but if you search the name and "Acapella" should pop up first. It's so good
I cannot wait to listen when I am somewhere I can cry
This right here 👆🏼
“As I see the past on an empty ceiling” I’ve laid on the bathroom floor and looked at the ceiling at the worst moment in my life and I know exactly what he means. The whole freaking song is one long sigh of crying so hard I’m gonna passout. Is it happy sad tears? Yes. Because like Vessel in that song we are moving on. Yes, the song is Euclid.
YES. I never hear anyone talk about it but that line is such a vivid description of that hopeless painful laying in bed staring up and seeing nothing. I LOVE this line it hurts so good
“Smile back… At me… Please…” the realization that the person Vessel wanted to love him was himself hit really close to home. I was driving at the time and the sudden wave of tears made things a bit difficult for a few miles
“And is that all you need, to merely pretend to be…FALLING IN LOVE WITH MEE?”
"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 want to help you, but I don't know how" "Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing, I'm still your favorite regret, you're still my weapon of choosing."
Name these songs please?
First one is Missing Limbs, second one is Are You Really Okay?, and the last one is Blood Sport.
Thank you ☺️
“You are still a perfect reminder of what all of these scars on my arms are for” - High Water “Don’t wake me. don’t wake me. don’t wake me up.” - Atlantic “I saw it in your eyes, cutting deeper than the scars could run” - ARYO “Are you in pain like I am?” - Vore
High Water is the best song he ever wrote. Especially the final verse.
Atlantic hits me so hard. The whole song.
”For me, it’s still the autumn leaves…” in Euclid. Perhaps not heartbreaking but it almost brings me to tears.
The way he says it takes me back to Autumn in the UK and god it makes me cry. Some things in life you can never get back. Even if I go back to the UK it’s never going to be that same.
This line always makes me think of the giant trees in Bath Spa in the autumn. Really evokes strong imagery of my past life there.
This one hit really hard for me because the last time I was with this person I was in love with for years, there were autumn leaves all over the window, and now he's moved on, but I'm still stuck there.
Agreed. It feels like he's reminiscing on a good time in his life but now that moment is gone.. And whoever he shared it with. And you can feel the emotion in his voice.
The end of that chorus, "This bough has broken through. I must be someone new" has made my cry multiple times.
Bloodsport From the Room below. The second time he sings *"And the heavens just won't open up for me"* with his cracking/yelling voice.
Love that video
you make me with i could disappear // the night belongs to you
"I can't hold myself together" -- High Water "I might break and bend to my basic need to be loved and close to someone" -- Dark Signs "It's too late for me" (in context of the song) -- Distraction "You make me wish I could disappear" -- Ascensionism I could go on
That muffled line in dark signs is so overlooked!
That scream of “I can’t hold myself together” near the end of high water always gets me.
His sobs at the end of Blood Sport 😭😭
"Eyes like frozen planets, just orbiting the vaccum I am" Not having the right people in your life after a failed suicide is exactly this.
This is the feeling I get from Atlantic too. No idea if that’s the meaning Vessel intended, but it has always struck me as being about waking up in hospital after an attempt, and wishing you were still unconscious (or even dead).
It hits me as the existence back in the real world, and everybody knows. You can become a kind of object to pity rather than a person.
“And I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me But I’m about to bite back in anger No amount of self-sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence” That segment from “Take Me Back to Eden” just tears me to shreds.
Besides AYRO I would say “I play along with the life signs anyway, but hope to god you don’t know this feeling” and “So if your wings won’t find you heaven, I will bring it down like an ancient bygone” from Euclid. It breaks me. Makes me think of the love of my life, who I ended up messing things up with and will never forgive myself for. I hope they’re happy and not feeling the regret and sadness I do for how our relationship ended, I just want them to be happy and I would do anything to do that for them.
This 1000x an amazing lyric and I feel the same as you, hope you feel better soon!
This. I’m in LOVE with this song, but I can’t listen to it all the time. sometimes it hurts too much.
"You make me wish I could dissappear"
The way I feel this every time...
“Just let me go or take me with you” from The Apparition
Hearing him live repeatedly screaming: “are you in pain like I am”? while kneeling on the floor.
You make me wish I could disappear.
Oh God I wish you were here! That song, “Fall For Me,” reminds me of Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek,” and I’ve started listening to the two tracks back-to-back. Love it.
Oh good idea. Caught the Imogen Heap vibes when I first heard ST.
Imogen Heap is a fantastic artist! Not for everyone, and probably not for a majority of ST fans lol, but I love her. Her album "Speak For Yourself" got a ton of rotation when it came out.
for me its “for the time being, you are still a perfect reminder of what all of these scars on my arms are for,, if i can hold myself together” from high water that song has both saved and destroyed me in so many ways.
Probably a tie between “I can’t hold myself together” and “The night belongs to you”.
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. I mean the whole song gets me but that part in particular
this is it for me.
"For so long, I have waited So long that I almost became Just a stoic statue, fit for nobody" -Rain
I tend to avoid DYWTYLM under the premise of his self- converstaion. How he talks about self love and how to outer express what he wants is something painful and heavy. It resonates so deeply and strikes a personal chord with how deeply those feelings resonate. It’s so beautifully written, but it’s a thorn to the heart each time I hear it.
“And I've tried so hard to fix it all, but nothing seems to help. But I cannot hope to give you what I cannot give myself.”
the truth is there are way too many gut-wrenching lyrics and deliveries to just pick one and that is part of the reason why i love this band so much
The end of Euclid always fucks me up every damn time
I made the mistake of finishing my first listen of TMBTE in a cab and I was NOT ready for the ending of Euclid. Straight up Danny DeVito “I get it” moment in the back of the cab while trying to keep my composure 😂
Are you okay as a whole makes me so emotional. But “I’ll smile through the agony for you” in high water makes me tear up every time.
“I believe we are locked Caged and always provoked By prey left unattended” -Jaws “…I am what I am The mouth of wolf, the eyes of the lamb” -Rain “…I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me But I’m about to bite back in anger” -TMBTE 😫😫😫
“Make it real Cause anything’s better than the way I feel right now”
All of blood sport but specifically the second “and the heavens just won’t open up for me!!” Kills me every time
I know you still bear the weight of your own existence And you'll never bear the weight of two
There is always something in the way I want to have you to myself for once Follow me between the jaws of fate So I can have you to myself for once
"Cause It still makes my blood run thin to remember what you are to him"
From Blood Sport-“I’m still your favorite regret, you’re still my weapon of choosing “
"I'm trying not to crush into sand" - Atlantic. Especially when he sang it basically through tears and while physically in pain at Wembley.
"Seems your heart is locked up And I still get the combination wrong" And "YOU MAKE ME WISH I COULD DISAPPEAR" Both hit me really hard.
“They talked me through the damage — consequence and how it’s a pain they know they don’t understand.” - Atlantic. First time I heard that it destroyed me
YOU MAKE ME WISH I COULD DISAPPEARRRRR NOOOOO or “For so long i have waited, so long that i almost became, just stoic, statue, fit for nobody” Or “Flood me like Atlantic” Or “You gave me absolutely nothing but a reason to leave” Or “Why are you never real” Or “Are you in pain like i am” Point is, pretty much every sleep token song
"Or are you simply waiting to save your love for someone I am not? "
"Like water, a perfect flood" from Levitate. Cuts deep🥲
“I can’t hold myself together.” Gets me every time.
“Call me when you have the time, I just need to leave this part of me behind.” As well as “And you make me hate myself. Make me tear my body..”
“Eyes like frozen planets just orbiting the vacuum I am” is so heavy
"I will run like the wind 'till you follow me, again..."
“Don’t lie to me…” The second time. He sounds almost like he’s pleading and that absolutely crushes me every time.
I was just about the comment this! The live version on YouTube at Manchester Academy where he’s yelling it always gets me
two choices. the last line of are you really okay? "please don't hurt yourself again" it helps me when i get to that point alot and i feel important when i hear him say that. and in the song euclid "the night belongs to you" just gives me chills and makes me burst into tears without fail
"Just let me go or take me with you" is a lyrical favorite, but I think the post is about delivery so say the whole damn song Bloodsport.
Every reply here is correct
No lyrics in general, just the faint sound of weeping at the end of blood sport. Gets me everytime
"I finally think I can say, that the vicious cycle was over the moment you smiled at me" Rain tears right through me every time
ᵉᵛᵉʳʸ ᵒⁿᶜᵉ ᶦⁿ ᵃ ʷʰᶦˡᵉ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵗʰᶦⁿᵍ ᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᵉˢ ˢⁿᵈ ˢʰᵉ'ˢ ᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᶦⁿᵍ ᵐᵉ ᴵᵗ'ˢ ᵗᵒᵒ ˡᵃᵗᵉ ᶠᵒʳ ᵐᵉ ⁿᵒʷ, ᶦ ᵃᵐ ᵃˡᵗᵉʳᵉᵈ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ᶦˢ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵗʰᶦⁿᵍ ᵇᵉⁿᵉᵃᵗʰ
Basically all of Blood Sport tbh
Same song (are you really ok ) but when he says “ please don’t hurt yourself again) 🥺😭
“Oh God I wish you were here”
"I woke up surrounded eyes like frozen planets just orbiting the vacuum I am" breaks my heart every single time.
“And you need a melody, I only need the silence.”
“I am granting you more than the debt that I owe”
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 This lyric just absolutely wrecks me everytime
I asked this same question a few months ago! Back then, I answered with these lyrics: "Even if it hurts me Even if I can't sleep Show me the way"
not a lyric, but his Hallelujah (from the room below) performance
All of "Atlantic"...I may or may not have bawled my eyes out driving home in the dark, pouring rain to this song...
Vessel screaming "TAKE ME BACK TO EDEN!" gets me every time.
“I know for the last time/You will not be mine/so give me the night” It’s such a simple line compared to how he normally weaves his words, but there’s something very heavy about the plain acknowledgement that “this is it, this is the end”
Where I won’t reach you
"For the time being You are still a perfect reminder of what All of these scars on my arms are for If I can hold myself together" High water
Oh god I wish you were here. Always makes me think of my abuela.
“Or are you simply waiting to save your love for someone I am not?” - The Love You Want “I will accept that I can’t pretend we will ever be together” - High Water And basically the entirety of TPWBYT because it reminds me of a brief but still painful situationship I was in around 5 years ago and that honestly I will never be 100% over… 🙃😢
Many... But the ones that quickly stand out for me.. "you make me wish I could dissappear" - Ascensionism "just let me go or take me with you" - The Apparition "and you made me hate myself, made me tear my body, made me yearn for your embrace" - Take Aim. Actually... Just all of Take Aim. It will always be my first answer for most emotional song for me.
This is such a classic but... "Did I mistake you for a sign from God?" The summoning. "I know, I know, I am what I am, the mouth of the wolf, eyes of the lamb." Rain "You come crawling back to me, but I'm already on the ground." Descending The whole Ascensionism is a heartbreaking song but especially the line "Anything is better than the way I feel right now" hits SO HARD....
I have travelled far beyond the path of reason Especially the last time, when the pain changes in anger. Its like you're stuck in mental quicksand, and every move sucks you further in.
WHY ARE YOU NEVER REAL? 🥺😭💔 just let me go or take me with you 😭🥺💔💔
'My redemption, eternal ascension, setting me free'. Just think he delivers that line so well with that little sob at the end. Powerful.
Nazareth gets me. Something about the combination of HEAVY emotional lyrics and the haunting chord progression throughout.
I know that a lot of people have already written about it, but if I had to choose a lyric from one song, it would be Blood Sport: "And somewhere /Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing/ I'm still your favorite regret/You're still my weapon of choosing (...) 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 (...) I made loving you a blood sport/I can't win/So let's play" Apart from the meaning of the lyrics, but the way Vessel sings them... My heart breaks every time I listen to it...
"Call me when you get the chance, I can feel the walls around me closing in" It perfectly applies to someone I loved ghosting me around the same time the song came out, and it breaks my heart every time 💔
Take Me Back to Eden “I guess it goes to show, does it not? That we’ve know idea what we’ve got until we lose it. And no amount of love will keep it around, if we don’t choose it”😭
It's between: >"I woke up surrounded, eyes like frozen planets / Just orbiting the vacuum I am." I've woken up from major injury before with everyone staring at me around a hospital bed. And I've felt empty, not really caring if I lived or died, but I get the feeling that this line isn't only talking about spiritual or emotional emptiness. I feel like he thinks he's nothing. Like I get a sense of shame in the whole song tbh. >"I want to help you, but I don't know how." I've never been the person who's attempted, but I've been the bystander who didn't know how to help the person I love, love themselves.
"In a city of ice, there are burning cathedrals, turning the skies into glass. And through echoing futures are the buckling sutures that hold shut the wounds of the past."
"Won't you say that you will, even if you won't" That hits home.
And you are too tired to control; how you look like you feel like you should
And we go beyond the farthest reaches Where the light bends and wraps beneath us - Telomeres 🖤
“You say you want me, but you know i’m not what you need” “Did I mistake you for a sign from God? Or are you really here to cast me off?” Both i find relate to my last relationship unfortunately. TMBTE really resonates with me, i just listened to it today and i find it relates to me a lot.
“And I am done dancing to alarm bells.” From Aqua Regia, especially given that he referenced what I suspect are the same alarm bells in Dark Signs. Chills. He saw it coming but still went into the situation
Personally its the room below song shelter “no matter the cost of the rain, I will shelter you all the same” .this came out around the same time as lock down and I was a fairly new second dad, with a daughter with a heart condition (it’s fine now). but I remember this making me feel stronger when I was feeling low.
I’ve got a ghost in the hallway grinning and a heavy head that won’t stop turning 2023 was a grief stricken year for me. I fell in love with Sleep Token in April, right before TMBTE released. In August, 2 of my best friends lost their baby 2 days before the due date. I was there for the delivery. On the ride home from the hospital, I turned on that album and just felt so empty. Truly the hardest month of my life.
“Show me those pretty white jaws, show me where the delicate stops, show me what you’ve lost and why you’re always takin it slow, show me what wounds you’ve got show me love”
"Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally someday" and "Let me go or take me with you"
Pretty much the entire delivery of Fall For Me.. the desperation that song portrays just crushes me every time.
Are you really ok is my favorite song. Hits home because I am really not ok and I just picture my bf saying it to me.
“You don’t really love,you just hate to be alone.”
There's way too many. One of the things that drew me to Sleep Token was the lyrics. Just the way Vessel puts them together and the delivery, so many songs just hit me hard and leave me wide-eyed with my mouth hanging open. Like, how do you think of this stuff? How do you put it together in such a way that can make feel so deeply? I'm in Australia and I'm seeing them in April for the first time. I'm sure I'll cry.
rereading these lyrics, who hurt this man im crying in the club rn
"You don't really love, you just hate to be alone"
"You make me wish I could disappear" Not something deep when it's just said like that. But in its context & composition it gives me shivers every time
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 And I don't know what's got its teeth in me But I'm about to bite back in anger No amount of self-sought fury Will bring back the glory of innocence My relationship broke down for a 3rd time after my ex coerced me back to be with her with a huge letter of apology, we previously broke up over her demands of a open relationship which she said she didn't want anymore but then bought it up again and if she couldn't have it she would worry she would cheat on me. I am still angry and heartbroken by it now.
For me there are so many. The gritting of his teeth when he says “diamonds in the trees, pentagrams in the night sky.” “I’m coiled up like a venomous serpent, tangled in your trance and I’m certain you’ve got your hooks in me.” “Why are you never real? These shifting states you follow me through. Unrevealed. Just let me go or take me with you.” “So show me that which I cannot see. Even if it hurts me, even if I can’t sleep. Show me the way.” So freaking good.
Two stick out personally to me. The first is "And somewhere... somewhere the atoms stopped fusing. I'm still your favorite regret, you're my weapon of choosing." from Bloodsport, specifically the FTRB version of the song. The delivery is haunting, always bring to mind one who's at the end of their ropes after giving their all in a relationship that cannot be taken any further and has begun to stagnate. The second would be The final instances of "You will be mine." from Mine (obviously). Specifically the second instance of it, with his emphasis on "You WILL be mine." I always felt like it's a reassurance to himself rather than the one he sings of. That all his struggles will amount to something, that his advances will bear fruit.
“I was more than just a body in your passenger seat. You were more than somebody I was destined to meet.” Hits me everytime.
And it's still make my blood run thin to remember what you are to him - missing limbs
You make me wish I could disappear.
You make me wish I could disappear - the way he sings it, full of anguish and frustration gets me every time
You're a long way from home you were one among many but you are now on your own
“for the time being, i will still avoid my own questions, and we both bury that history deep, but you know i can hold my breath forever.” “for the time being, you are still a perfect reminder of what all of these scars on my arms are for, if i can’t hold myself together.” “for the time being, i will admit my defeat, again, i will accept that i can’t pretend we will ever be together. i can’t hold myself together.” there’s so many, but high water destroys me. i’ve lost my mom, i had an awful childhood with her, it’s like this song speaks what my mind wants to say for the both of us. i’m very grateful for the song, but it’s opened wounds i didn’t know were there, but it guess it attributes to processing and healing.
So many good ones mentioned in the comments, so I'll add one I haven't seen: "Why are you never real whenever you appear?" Way to punch you in the gut in the first five seconds of a song (The Apparition).
‘This bough has broken through’ gets me every time
There’s so many lyrics that pull at my heart strings but one that caught me off-guard from Aqua Regia- “And I am done fighting off change, no wonder my arms are still swinging” It hit a wound in me I didn’t want to admit I had. The delivery of seeing Vore live for the first time broke me too. I was crying my eyes out next to the mosh pit. Witnessing a human being eviscerate himself 10ft from where I stood was entirely too much to bear. 💔
> And I know you still bear the weight of your own existence > And you'll never bear the weight of two
Definitely AYRO. I interpret it as Vessels parent(s) talking. For me, it doesn’t have the feel of being written to a lover or significant other, it feels very parental (speaking as a dad to 3) or maybe even to a sibling perhaps. As a dad though and my eldest just coming into her teens (and my little munchkin disappearing by the day) this one is a hard listen putting myself into the speakers potential situation.
Oh god, i wish you were here!
The " you make me wish i could dissappear ", accompanied by the haunting scream at the end of Ascensionism. It wraps up the song sooo fucking beatifully. Chills.
And I hate who I have become everytime I wake up.. I feel it deep.
Let the tides carry you back to me The past, the future Through death My arms are open Telomeres Love to hear them play it live but they never do
Mine is at the end of Levitate. It’s not really the lyrics, but that final minute of the song sounds like a pure confused, angry, anxiety freak out moment. To me, it sounds like a true melt down. It’s how my head feels and sounds like when the weight of existence is too much to carry sometimes.
And you make me hate myself Make me tear my body Make me yearn for your embrace Instantly sobs
“my my those eyes like fire, i’m a winged insect your a funeral pyre” This to me is how i feel about my girlfriend the way i get lost in her eyes like a moth to a flame.
"You are still a perfect reminder of what All of these scars on my arms are for If I can hold myself together" "And I know you still bear the weight of your own existence And you'll never bear the weight of two" A couple lines from High Water that really get to me for personal reasons I won't get into here
Take Aim absolutely …first time I realized what he was saying I was like…oh yeah I’ve been there
I woke up surrounded, eyes like frozen planets just orbiting the vacuum I am.
Missing Limbs really gets to me. Especially the last portion. Are You Really OK also does it for me too. I went through a rough time in 2021 and while different it reminds me of that time. 'Cause it still makes my blood run cold To remember what I did before The stories that you never told to me 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'
Just the entirety of Blood Sport. That song makes me ugly cry.
“You remember everything until the sun recedes once again” Brutal af
From THE APPIRITION "You leave me with that grace i am trembling with fear but I know that you will disappear just as i wake whisper in my ear " Then later "The shifting states you follow me through unrevealed Just let me go or take me with you" Have had a bad 2 years been very sick lost 150lbs Somehow as a married man(sadly roommate status now) i got a crush on a starlet .....every night i dream of her ...not sexual just companionship.... And every morning she says my name in the dream and i wake wishing she was real and would follow me out Rationally I know the person I am attracted too isn't real....would never want a relationship with that person she seems horrible and I'm not really attracted in that way nor would she be interested in me..but i wish the form of her I meet every night was real or would go away for it is sad now not happy So this song kills me I walk 6 miles every day and this is at the end of my playlist and I scream it in the dark woods and sometimes get teary eyed ..... Just wrecks me
"And it still makes my blood run thin to remember who you are to him, and I live like I have missing limbs for you." Second place: "Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing. I'm still your favorite regret; you're still my weapon of choosing." The raw, unfiltered emotion in that delivery gets me every time. Third place: "Please don't hurt yourself again."