So Strange I Remember You
[Thrice] Lyrics

So Strange I Remember You in protest of a prayer,
It's bizarre that the memory of you is still clear to me, even though I was rejecting religion at the time.

And falling back from seas we fear to sail
We're backing down from difficult situations that we're not ready to face.

I swear I saw the shooter, gold deep and double dare,
I'm certain I saw the enemy, well-equipped and daring, ready to attack us.

Postmortem warnings seem inclined to fail,
Advice given after a problem has happened is usually too late to prevent it from recurring.

Feigning an apology.
You're pretending to apologize, but not doing it sincerely.

Those words they never left your lips,
You never actually said the things I think you did, even though I remember them that way.

Those 5 years in Bermuda slide by like the lights of passing ships,
Time spent in one place can feel like it passed by quickly and you didn't take it all in.

So Strange that I Remember You,
It's odd that I still remember you so vividly after all this time.

Kneeling deep in Nietzsche's lies
I was immersing myself in the works of a philosopher with controversial and sometimes untruthful ideas.

My throat was an open grave I drank your stained glass eyes
I was obsessively taking in all of your beauty until it became overwhelming and suffocating.

And they taste like dead cathedrals
Your beauty now feels empty and meaningless, like the abandoned shells of beautiful buildings.

That are crumbling beneath a weight ten thousand jaded tourists
Those beautiful buildings are falling apart because they've been visited by countless people who don't appreciate their value.

Who've traded in their hearts and hands for
Those same tourists have given up their ability to feel and touch in exchange for shallow experiences and souvenirs.

Disposable cameras, set to document to decay
They're just taking photos of things that are falling apart, with no intention or ability to help.

Set to capture just enough of life to catalog the things we throw away
They're only interested in taking superficial snapshots of the world, never stopping to truly appreciate or care for what they're seeing.

(breathing the fumes of our machines)
We're living in a world that's being consumed by technology, and we're inhaling the pollution it's creating.

We've lost our way-Dustin sings
We've gone astray from the path we should be taking, both as individuals and as a society.

(breathing through television dreams)
We're living in a world that's largely dictated by what we see on TV, and we're breathing in the shallow, unreal ideas it presents.

If we could only see us now
If we could take a step back and see ourselves objectively, we might be shocked by how far we've strayed.

The words of the dead ring in our ears
We're haunted by the ideas and beliefs of those who have come before us, even if they're no longer alive.

But its only a lie
Those beliefs and ideas might not actually be true, even if they feel powerful and convincing to us.

The voice in your head brings you to tears
Your own doubts and fears can be just as powerful and overwhelming as the ideas of others.

But its only a lie,
Those doubts and fears might not be grounded in reality, even if they feel overwhelming to us.

Yes its only a lie, isn't it?
Ultimately, the things we believe and fear might not be true at all - they might just be constructs of our own minds.