Interpret:

Strapping Young Lad

Album:

City

What you don't understand
Is where everything's needing
When all of the signs 
You see still point to overload
As you reach out your hand
A shattered vision's receding
Like daylights along 
That lonesome stretch of broken road


Because you've been to the past
And it's just a reminder
A recollection of faces 
That will never come to call
When you've cut through the mask
When you've been through the grinder
Sometimes you forget 
That you had ever been there at all


Up here in room 429
The world ain't so unkind
I wanna take you to 
That empty room tonight


In the shadow of doubt
In the crush of an instant
Standing in the rain outside your door
Hand on my knife
When you reach a brick wall
There is still a decision
Always though if I had to lose 
I'd surely take you all


Up here in room 429
In a world that's so unkind
I wanna take you to 
That empty room tonight
We'll tell the world outside the door
That we ain't never coming back no more
We're gonna stay in here 
'Till we turn out the night


The city breathes so softly
Everything is sleeping
I am at the window silently watching
I can see you standing
Alone against the winter
I can hear you asking, but the streets
They are not giving
Don't look to the ocean
Restless in its dreaming
Don't look to the heavens 
For they will tell you nothing
If living is for learning
Then dying is forgetting
Once we have forgotten 
Then we can go on loving


In a lifetime of hope
In a second of kindness
There is never a doubt 
That we are born and die alone
From within or without
There's no way they can find us
When they knock at the door
The lights are on, but we ain't home


Up here in room 429
The world ain't so unkind
I wanna take you to 
That empty room tonight
We'll tell the world outside the door
That we ain't never coming back no more
We're gonna stay in here 
'Till we turn out the night