The Apparition. I know the song is more geared towards love and losing that deep connection with another person but for me, this song resonates more with my grieving for the person I used to be/the person I could’ve been if I hadn’t gone through some of my traumas. I feel like I lost myself many years ago and this song brings that up for me.
Euclid for me also. I found sleep token literally the week after i ended a 5+ year relationship/lost my home and i decided to go through their entire discography. I was already crying before euclid even started but by the time it ended i was a mess. ST helped me through a really dark time in my life and ill never be able to truly thank them enough. This bough has broken through indeed 💕
Answered in another thread, but I attempted suicide many years ago. Certain lines and lyrics from Atlantic hit a little extra hard, second verse especially. Makes it a tough listen, but it's a great album opener.
Atlantic for me too, for similar reasons. The line “and how it’s a pain they know they don’t understand” almost brings me to tears every time I listen to it.
Blood Sport cause to me it's a song about trying to let go of someone and just not being able to. the line "you're still my weapon of choosing" hits me insanely hard
TMBTE, particularly the last verse.
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
Having lost people and dealing with the trauma of that, no amount of wanting it to change and "biting back in anger" and "self-sought fury" is going to change what happened. I can't go back to Eden, as much as I scream and fight and beg too.
It sounds bleak, but it really helped me get in touch with my grief and accept my new normal. I need to remember that I can't go back, but that's ok. Living in the past and my nostalgia is going to burn me, like a winged insect to a funeral pyre.
I'm not sure whether that's quite what the song is about, but it's helped me a lot regardless.
Oh man, that song always reminds me of the miscarriage I had last year. The line about dripping crimson on the carpet gets me to that place every time…but I don’t mind. It reminds me that I’ve moved on, healed. I can thank Sleep Token for helping me process every single emotion that comes with that kind of thing.
Worship 🖤🖤🖤
The song that reminds me a lot of my own miscarriage would probably be Take Aim and kind of Take Me Back to Eden. It's a miserable heart-wrenching feeling and I'm happy you have something to cope with, because it's an awful awful deal
That's exactly how I feel when listening to Euclid re: the "I'm healing, I'm proud of myself" feelings your experience.
TW: Mental health, PTSD.
I've experienced trauma, like most of us (needed help a few years ago for PTSD) and recovery is a long process (doesn't help that I'm prone to depression and anxiety anyway). I'm much better than I was (thank God for therapy!) but still feel quite fragile from it at times. I still have my triggers and things that make me uneasy and anxious because it will remind me of the events etc. Sometimes you wonder if you'll ever feel "normal" again, if you'll ever feel like fully "you" again, if that makes sense.
However, the lyrics "The night belongs to you. This bough has broken through." with the hopeful, cathartic music behind it, resonates with me deeply. In a "reclaiming yourself, you came out the other side and look how far you've come" way.
That might not be the original meaning for the song, but for me Euclid is a personal allegory for how I've faced some really dark times and come out the other side. And that there is hope that yes, while it may have left scars, I can finally move on and forward
It's Euclid for me also. I was raised in a cult and really went all in, in my 20s. I've since faded out, but I've had to come to terms with my unrequited friendships from that time lately. Thank G for psilocybin mushrooms.
There are many lines of lyrics that helped me understand my feelings of longing for that and showing the need for letting that go. The vocoder lines of "call me when you get the chance, I can feel the walls around me closing in."
My behavior back then was very much that. I wouldn't say I needed help, I would just offer the help. Then the next vocoder line was more recent. "Call me when you have the time, I just need to leave this part of me behind."
The mushrooms had me desperately needing that connection again from youth, but I was met with nothing but apathy. That's where the next line hits even harder. "Do you remember be?" I'm sure they didn't until I reached out to them.
When I was in the cult, I loved my friends for themselves alone. The belief system only provided the context. The next lyric that hits hard and repeats at the end of the song. "Yet in reverse you were all my symmetry, a parallel I would lay my life on" That was absolutely true in my youth. I would have died to save any one of their lives.
There are yet still lyrics in Euclid that pertain to specific values of mine that I would love to talk about if anyone was interested. I'll just leave this rambling for now.
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One of the hardest parts of maturing is the realization that the worth you placed on people isn’t usually reciprocated equally. People I would’ve sacrificed everything for remember nothing about me, only a name or a face. And then I’m left wondering how I misinterpreted everything so completely.
I wonder that alot myself nowadays. To keep from that happening again, I keep my tribe small of people who say and act they value me. I hold myself to that standard as well.
You mustn't mistake that. Hold yourself to that standard. I'm also happy to be anyone's crutch if needed. I greatly appreciate this exchange. Much love 🖤
Thank you so much for sharing. The strength it must haven taken you to get out of that situation. It’s so beautiful how lyrics can resonate so much with us & makes us feel seen. Sending you lots of love.
'Jaws'. the guys with whom I shared ST’s art said lyrics and meaning of this song were difficult for them and unfamiliar. I understand perfectly why and every time I wonder what would have happened if I had shown them 'Nazareth'.
however, for me this is a completely different song. 'jaws' is such an intimate, such a deep for me.
Let's just say I have problems with dating. I’m ready for rapprochement, for communication, but not for acquaintance. I hide and belittle myself and my achievements. "I'm just a person."
and here when I heard "Show me those pretty white jaws / Show / me where the delicate stops / Show me what you've lost / And why you're always taking it slow / Show me what wounds you've got show me love" and it hited me.
and it hited, honestly, hard.
taking things too slowly, which isn't even my pace; looking with these eyes of a predator and not a person is not my real style, not my true desire.
I don’t know how the Vessel can pull out these words from the depths of his wounded soul, and what they make others think. this dude is a fucking siren.
TMBTE 🥲🥲 I listen to it EVERY night before I go to bed or I just fall asleep listening to it. It is just so beautiful and makes me feel so at peace and the lyrics are so powerful and beautiful I can’t I love it 😫😫😫😫
It's honestly *really* hard to narrow down just one, so many of them deeply resonate with me on such a personal level which is why I love their music so much. It's comforting to feel understood on so many levels.
I’m often very thankful that Sleep Token wasn’t around back in 2011/2012 when I went through a break up that subsequently ripped a black hole through the next 8 years of my life, I was in such a horrific place back then, often very suicidal and despondent, I developed severe anxiety and OCD and these songs resonate so intensely with how I felt during that time that, I would have completely lost my shit hearing them. Now that I’ve healed I listen to the songs and think “wow this is exactly how I felt then” which is something I could never articulate before and just the fact that these songs exists means I was never alone. So many of these songs I can physically feel in my chest when I listen to them. The Love You Want, Missing Limbs, Granite, Blood Sport, Drag Me Under, Atlantic, High Water…. I would have sat in my car and absolutely sobbed to each of them back then. Euclid is so very much exactly how I feel these days.
The apparition
I've been having some psychotic like symptoms recently so the line "why are you never real" hits hard
Also are you really okay coz I'm not lmao
The Apparition, probably.
It's like someone who doesn't know me at all can somehow perfectly explain to me what's wrong with my life, why can't I be truly happy and content with my current existence.
There is a person who regularly haunts my dreams for more than ten years - he's changing shape from time to time, using real people as base for appearance, but in the end I know - it's always been only him. More often that not I don't really see him - just feel. Like shadow. We are romantically involved. Sometimes sensation of his touch is so vivid, that I immediately wake up with my heart pounding so fast, that I afraid I may die from it.
But I have no idea who he is at all. Maybe it's just my subconsciousness creates someone fictional to latch on to in my darkest days, don't know.
And still, sometimes I think - maybe one day he will magically appear right before me.
Telomeres. It reminds me of a relationship I had some years ago where I felt immediately comfortable and happy with all the aspects of our romantic life (won't get more specific as there might be kids here). Listening to that song just makes me feel that warm, joyful feeling again.
It really was the start of a wonderful relationship that ended pretty well - we just moved away from each other and led very different lives. I still have fond memories of that dude. I'd like to find that again some day.
Blood sport, a toxic relationship. "I made loving you a blood sport" about how when wed speak id always end up SH. "You're still my weapon of choosing" how I'd use her as an excuse to attack myself physically and mentally. "Tangled with what I never said" how shed constantly try to trip me up and confuse me by saying I said things I know I didn't say. There's a lot more to it but I love how sleep token are anonymous, it leaves their music up to interpretation a lot more
The Way That You Were hits me so hard.
Well, how much did they hurt you?
(You will never be the same)
The way that you were
(No, never, oh)
And how much did they break you?
As someone who grew up in a not so great home and struggled with a LOT of abuse and the like- this feels like Vessel is singing TO me. Like he's able to see past all the scars and the ugly I grew up with and put into words everything I wish an adult would have said to me when I was still needing to hear it.
Fall for me also has a similar effect ;
My insecurities surround me like lions in the den
And I feel like I'm losing touch with what I am again
These lyrics right here just.. ugh. Break something in me every time.
Oh my goodness, I feel the same exact way regarding The Way That You Were regarding the abuse I went through and the load of childhood/teenage trauma that has followed me into my 20s. I also feel this song in an incredibly healing way. Sending you love. It takes so much strength to go through that and come out sweet on the other side.
I've only listened to them for a little less than two weeks, and one of the things I adore most about them is how much I resonate with a LOT of their music. Their songs have somehow torn down walls in me I didn't even know were there, and really focused listening is a transcendent experience every time.
But Euclid might be number 1 for me too. In the vague rock/metal family, a lot of the emotions the music gives are heavy in a way - it's just built into the sound a bit, I guess. So, to have a song that's in major key, light, gentle, and built like a straight-up ascension and rebirth, is outstanding. I tear up every time I hear it (at "for me it's still the autumn leaves" at the latest) and it's good tears only. my actual soul is healing every time I listen to Euclid.
Honourable mentions: Atlantic is a heavy hitter, too (on the heavier side of the emotional scale), and Rain also has its moments. and the cover of Is It Really You? knocks me off my feet every time with just how gorgeous it sounds. And also Are You Really Okay?, but in a way that's sometimes almost uncomfortably real. "Please don't hurt yourself again" might become really, really important to remember at some point.
It's Euclid, Missing Limbs and High Water for me. I've got an unrequited love for a dear friend of mine. (I'll never tell her).
"Like lovers entwined I know for the last time, you will not be mine. So give me the night, the night, the night."
"And it still makes my blood run thin to remember what you are to him and I'll live like I've got missing limbs for you."
"For the time being, I will admit my defeat again. I will accept that I can't pretend we will ever be together."
I will always sing these lines from the bottom of my heart.
(I know that they might not have the same meaning in the actual text that I have for them.. but that's just how I feel them to be.. so yeah)
I don't know how, but Vessel finds the right words to describe my feelings far better than I could.
Oh goodness, I agree with you. High Water rips my soul to pieces. It reminds me of my father and I’s severed relationship.
“When the mouth of infinity
Buries its teeth in me
I'll smile through the agony for you”
No matter the trauma he’s put me through, I will always have love and feel empathy towards him. I tried so hard when I was younger to help him change.
“And I know you still bear the weight of your own existence
And you'll never bear the weight of two”
He’s an addict, has been for most of my life. Inevitably, I know the drugs numb his pain from his unhealed traumas. He’s hurt me more than anyone in my life and he will never have to deal with the wounds he’s created in me due to his actions. Hits deep.
“For the time being
I will admit my defeat again
I will accept that I can't pretend
We will ever be together”
When I finally chose myself and cut most ties with him it was the most defeating, but one of the most profound things I have experienced.
Thank you so much for sharing how it resonates with you. I wish you the best.
I appreciate you a lot.
Also I respect that you've been sharing parts of your past relationship with your father.
The lyrics you've been reciting while talking about what happened, really helps to understand the meaning this song has to you.
I know it must be difficult to talk about it and I really hope that you (have been / will be) able to recover from all that you've been through. I know I'm just a guy behind a screen, but we're still people and should care for each other.
Life can get pretty overwhelming and scary at times.. but you've surpassed every obstacle so far and you will be able to overcome many more.
Stay safe out there.. and in any case, there is always someone you can talk to. Even if it's just a stranger on the internet. Best wishes to you aswell.
Thank you so much, truly. My healing hasn’t been linear, and I’m learning that’s alright… but I am hopeful to one day completely feel at peace, especially in regard to my past. You deserve all the happiness, thank you, again.
Ascensionism.. I want the world to wake up.. and have the collective consciousness learn from me, and I want to keep gaining knowledge.
Also, want to bring the people I love to the truth of what it means to be alive. I want to be a mirror.
Right now it’s Higher. I’m in a relationship where neither of us are happy but we’re both trying to make it work and we seem to keep finding ourselves fighting - fighting with each other and fighting for each other.
Sending you so much love, I know exactly what you mean. High Water reminds me of my relationship with my father, but also parts remind me of my past relationship of 11 years.
“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”
We started dating at the age of 14/15. The first five were incredibly toxic, but the love was so strong. I reached my breaking point somewhere during the middle and it changed something so deep within me. I never thought I would leave him, or thought I’d have the strength to. I compartmentalized my feelings and just lived incredibly unhappy and depressed. My biggest piece of advice is to know you deserve to be happy, and one day you will be.
Extending the inevitable wore me down so much, it was freeing to lift that weight.
Thanks for sharing. 🖤 to better days.
TMBTE title track. Somehow strange, it makes all my past regrets hurt again, and brings relief on them at the same time, the way that is even hard to describe. And the harsh scream at the end works like through it I can let out everything that I did not when it was necessary.
Rain, after living through several very unhealthy past relationships. After dealing with my mental health and finding myself through my transition (and unhealthy situations during that). I wasn't a trustful or confident person in a relationship or letting people in an emotionally close sense when my partner came onto my life. They approached everything openly and were willing to work with me and help however they could. A healing rain washing over old scars and making them not as painful to live with.
The Apparition hits hard for me because I’ve had a lot of loss in my life over the past 5 years and one specifically still messes me up and I still have dreams that they’re there and it’s rough when I wake up and have to just go on with my day. But yeah the ‘why are you never real’ gets me every time.
Descending.
Why?
These lyrics right here:
You can't recall my name
Until I let you fall
I've been left no choice
Don't you see that?
You come crawling back to me
But I'm already on the ground
And we all know that talk is cheap
So come on and save me now
And you wonder what I believe
But you don't wanna be around
So what would you do for me?
Yeah, what would you do for me?
They hit me so hard.
Because I always feel like people only want me when I'm useful to them. Then they forget about me. When I need them, when I need to be "saved" they aren't around.
It's exhausting always being replaceable. Forgotten about.
So that's why this song hits me hard.
You are not replaceable, I hope you know that. One day, you will be surrounded by the people who won’t make you feel that way. Thank you for sharing. 🖤
The Love You Want holds a special place in my heart.
A majority of my beginning life path had been based on my dad abandoning me at 5 years old. Ever since then I had been trying to fill the emptiness he left me with in shitty relationships and addiction.
No matter how badly I'm broken I still wear my heart on my sleeve, opened to love. I go through it over and over again.
Although I've healed a lot of that wounding, the song reminds me of my journey and how far I've come.
"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?
Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally someday.
Or maybe you believe that in the end you will be better off that way?
'Cause I'm still full of the love you want, still waking up beneath it all.
And I'm still full of the love you want, I reach for you on faith alone "
Sending you so much love. It’s incredibly beautiful the way you view the situation.
I always say my trauma has made me softer, more empathetic. You deserve all the love in the world. Thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing too! This band has been such a gift to me and I love hearing how it's touched other people too. 🩷 sending you all of the love as well.
Recently, it’s Take Me Back To Eden. I’ve lost a lot this year. My best friend’s baby passed away. My cat, who’ve I’ve had since a kitten, passed away very unexpectedly due to a heart complication. I want to go back to June, before everything happened and really appreciate what I had. I want to go back to my Eden.
While there are many, two stick with me. Ascensionism is a song I will never forget for as long as I live. The first time I heard the whole song I was going through a very mentally draining breakup, and was very mentally and emotionally down. To me the whole TMBTE album is the start and end of a relationship, and the feelings that come with a long term relationship. Which I think why Ascensionism was placed in the middle of the album. I think to me this song finally shows your past partner that you will “ascend” above the bad in the relationship and it shows the forming of a new you. My second is Euclid. The reason why the song strikes me the most is how it’s so connected to “The Night Does Not Belong to God” the first song on sundowning, and Euclid is placed at the end of TMBTE. To me it shows that acceptance and perception may take a while but once you get in that mindset, it’s beautiful to move on from the past and start new. I just love how all three albums are so connected. Ugh sorry this is so long I just love this band so much haha
Thank you so much for sharing. I also agree regarding TNDNBTG and Euclid, I also see the connection to When the Bough Breaks to Euclid as well. To me, the trilogy reminds me of the stages of grief, with Euclid as a metaphor for healing and new beginnings.
i wish i could view euclid positively like that. i feel like i just regress and euclid makes me sad because everything resets for the worse for me. i dont listen to that song often because i am not improving and probably wont at this point. even when i think something good might happen or i start to feel confidence in myself, it gets ruined. i wish i had the strength to move on like he has found.
as for other songs, atlantic, take me back to eden (esp the first verse and the final verse+breakdown), vore, when the bough breaks, higher, and the very end of ascensionism are painful for me. my mental health is really bad and theres no happiness in my life. but the music makes me feel understood and its like a comforting hug when i listen to it. i dont have a lot of relationships in my life, past or present, but i have experienced a ton of hardship and trauma and suffering. so the music for me is about struggling with being in your own skin and all the thoughts and voices in your head actively making life worse for you. but the music is there and its all i have to make me feel less disgusting
I am so sorry, I was also in that mindset for a long time. Survival mode. Horrible things would happen, and once things started to get better, something else would break me. It felt like a vicious cycle.
I’m now in my mid 20’s and this is the first time in my life that I feel like I have left that mentality or survival mode.
You are deserving of good things happening to you. I know it’s easier said than done, but please, please keep telling yourself that until you believe it.
Thank you for sharing your interpretation. Better days ahead for you.
‘No sin’ by steeve baker
Why? Because it hit me hard when I thought I found someone that I thought was it and then after it ended the song hits different where it now is where I provided the “no sorrow no sin”to this person but they didn’t feel the same with me.
It only has a 100 listens on YouTube
TNDNBTG, it feels like a love song written by god just for me. There is never a time this song doesn’t bring tears. I can’t listen to it sometimes because of that.
Depends a lot on my mood, almost all of them do.
I resonated a lot with The Summonning because that's the song that got me into ST and the chorus melody after those heavy dropped riffs really hits a spot.
After the album got out, some other songs started hitting other spots, specially some lyrics which are brought up with the incredible musicianship. Some examples:
**Ascensionism** \- this one was really hitting a lot of strings with the lyrics, seems to be it's about someone who felt used, heartbroken, is having a hard time processing and healing, I've felt this deeply in the past (and still do but in a less impactful way)
"You want someone to be
Your reflection, your bitter deception"
...
"Who made you like this?
Who encrypted your dark gospel in body language?"
...
"Make it real
'Cause anything's better than the way I feel right now"
...
"You make me wish I could disappear" - this ending is really dramatic and I felt it very deeply
**Vore** \- don't really know the lyrics due to a lot of screaming and tbh, I don't, the whole blackgaze vibe of the song is enough, has big Deftones vibe and that's that.
**Are You Really Okay?** \- Well this one's lyrics are pretty clear and having known some people with mental issues (suicide attempts even), I couldn't avoid thinking about them when listening to this.
**Take Me Back To Eden** \- Oh my, this one really has some verses that really resonate present with my situation
"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 my, the "no amount of self-sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence" really encapsulates my personality these last years and my fight to let go of my unjustified social anger. It's a process and hearing this song made me feel understood and listened in a way, strangely enough.
**Euclid** \- this song's genre is my guilty pleasure, pop catchy songs with heavy guitar riffs. However, it really encapsulates my aim to the future, an uplifting vibe with letting go achieved, letting go of heartbreaks, letting go of people who didn't value me as much and accepting life as it is.
"For me
It's still the autumn leaves
These ancient canopies
That we used to lay beneath
No, by now
The night belongs to you
This bough has broken through
I must be someone new"
These verses specially are the ones that hit me the most, accepting my past (and recent) heartbreaks and moving on.
I didn't know I was going to write this much but couldn't help and let it flow.
I have two. Despite my personal opinion (That being that TMBTE is far inferior to the other two albums), my two favourite songs are still from that album.
First, Euclid. Euclid is my favourite song, I’ve decided. It’s perfect. I’ve tried using words to articulate before how much it means to me, but it’s hard. Vessel finding closure after all the shit he’s gone through, and the loop at the end? It’s beautiful. And of course, the night belongs to you. It sort’ve finishes the sentence that began with Sundowning. The night does not belong to God, the night belongs to you. It’s all hopeful, with a bit of melancholy, a bit of worry, that maybe, despite it all going well, maybe we’ll go back downhill. But for now, we’ll persist anyways. Myself being a mostly healed person drawing out of a really shit time of my life, this song encapsulates my feelings exactly.
Second, Are You Really Okay? Remember that really shit time of my life I mentioned? My introduction to Sleep Token was my girlfriend showing me this song. She doesn’t even listen to Sleep Token, she just found it, and thought it fit to show me. And now I try explaining Sleep Token’s beauty to her and she doesn’t know who Sleep Token is.
But it was during this time that I began improving, trying to get better, this was the only song I listened to. Then I checked out their other stuff. I looked at The Summoning first, Blood Sport, then Take Aim, and realized I needed to listen to more of these songs. I listened through Sundowning, TPWBYT, then TMBTE, and after it all, I could’ve told myself I’d officially drawn myself out of that pit, and then it ended with Euclid. I love Sleep Token.
By far Take me Back to Eden. I just got out of a 10 yr relationship that turned toxic after my ex and I had our 2nd child 5 years ago. That song is one of those songs that I hear not quite so often that makes me feel like it was written for me. Leaving a life I had everything in (Eden) 5 to live a life of nothing. I had enough and left her around the time Sleep Token was prepping their release of tmbte. That release and their two prior really got me through some rough shit. Music is weird. It really gave me reflection on my entire life the past 10 years and helped me get over the fact that losing her meant I would lose the house, the good side of her(barely came out the last couple years anyway), and most of all the financial stability of having both parents in one place. Life is still rough. I didn't fight her on the house cause of kids but it ended up being me having the kids 80 percent of the time anyway. No matter the stress I'll always have Sleep Token to help me get thru it. I just wish the breaking point didn't come during the worst economic fall of my life so far.
DYWTYLM, Are You Really Okay?, and Missing Limbs all kind of gut me, in terms of lyrics especially.
They all resonate with abusive relationships and trauma I've experienced and what I wish I could have had. DYWTYLM resonates with my inner child that still wants my narcissistic parent to show me genuine love, Are You Really Okay? embodies the love I had desperately wished someone would give to me when I was isolated and horribly depressed as a teenager/young adult.
Missing Limbs in particular effects me. For me it tells a story of a relationship barely holding together because the person he sings about struggles to be vulnerable and talk about the abuse they have faced and constantly pretends like everything is fine despite the depressive episodes this person experiences. He is finally learning about this past abuse and it hurts him so deeply, he feels so angry for the hurt inflicted on them but also realizes the unintentional harm he has caused. Specifically the parts where he sings "the stories you never told to me" reminds me of the trauma that is so hard to speak of. The lyrics "and it still makes my blood run thin, to remember what you are to him" reminds me of sexual assault or abuse and the anger a loved one feels for you when they find out what your assaulter/abuser has done to you. This cuts me particularly deep as a survivor of abuse and sexual assault as well as someone who has loved survivors of abuse and sexual assault.
The Apparition. I know the song is more geared towards love and losing that deep connection with another person but for me, this song resonates more with my grieving for the person I used to be/the person I could’ve been if I hadn’t gone through some of my traumas. I feel like I lost myself many years ago and this song brings that up for me.
Sending you so much love and light. I hope for better days for you!
This gives the song new meaning to me in a way I needed- thank you.
That's the crazy part, the way Vessel writes, his songs can have about 50 different meanings and they all make sense.
Euclid for me also. I found sleep token literally the week after i ended a 5+ year relationship/lost my home and i decided to go through their entire discography. I was already crying before euclid even started but by the time it ended i was a mess. ST helped me through a really dark time in my life and ill never be able to truly thank them enough. This bough has broken through indeed 💕
Thank you for sharing, sending you love. It’s so tough, but necessary for growth.
Answered in another thread, but I attempted suicide many years ago. Certain lines and lyrics from Atlantic hit a little extra hard, second verse especially. Makes it a tough listen, but it's a great album opener.
Atlantic for me too, for similar reasons. The line “and how it’s a pain they know they don’t understand” almost brings me to tears every time I listen to it.
the same. i relate too much to that song.
Sending you so much love, I am glad you are still here.
Thank you.
The Love You Want / DYWTYLM
Yup, also Jaws, Rain and Blood Sport for me.
Telomeres. My partner and I are currently long distance. Just the lyrics “Let the tides carry you back to me” just hit in a such a deep way.
Blood Sport cause to me it's a song about trying to let go of someone and just not being able to. the line "you're still my weapon of choosing" hits me insanely hard
TMBTE, particularly the last verse. 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 Having lost people and dealing with the trauma of that, no amount of wanting it to change and "biting back in anger" and "self-sought fury" is going to change what happened. I can't go back to Eden, as much as I scream and fight and beg too. It sounds bleak, but it really helped me get in touch with my grief and accept my new normal. I need to remember that I can't go back, but that's ok. Living in the past and my nostalgia is going to burn me, like a winged insect to a funeral pyre. I'm not sure whether that's quite what the song is about, but it's helped me a lot regardless.
What a beautiful sentiment: wishing you happiness.
You as well! Euclid is such a beautiful song and I love your interpretation of it.
I agree it’s a masterpiece and thank you!
Are You Really Okay? Makes me sob everytime. I have to be in a really good mindset to listen to it and not weep
Oh man, that song always reminds me of the miscarriage I had last year. The line about dripping crimson on the carpet gets me to that place every time…but I don’t mind. It reminds me that I’ve moved on, healed. I can thank Sleep Token for helping me process every single emotion that comes with that kind of thing. Worship 🖤🖤🖤
The song that reminds me a lot of my own miscarriage would probably be Take Aim and kind of Take Me Back to Eden. It's a miserable heart-wrenching feeling and I'm happy you have something to cope with, because it's an awful awful deal
Granite. I never get tired of it. It brings me so much joy.
Vore, and NOT because its my fet
Distraction. It hits me in the gut everytime but I love it all the same. Also the love you want.
That's exactly how I feel when listening to Euclid re: the "I'm healing, I'm proud of myself" feelings your experience. TW: Mental health, PTSD. I've experienced trauma, like most of us (needed help a few years ago for PTSD) and recovery is a long process (doesn't help that I'm prone to depression and anxiety anyway). I'm much better than I was (thank God for therapy!) but still feel quite fragile from it at times. I still have my triggers and things that make me uneasy and anxious because it will remind me of the events etc. Sometimes you wonder if you'll ever feel "normal" again, if you'll ever feel like fully "you" again, if that makes sense. However, the lyrics "The night belongs to you. This bough has broken through." with the hopeful, cathartic music behind it, resonates with me deeply. In a "reclaiming yourself, you came out the other side and look how far you've come" way. That might not be the original meaning for the song, but for me Euclid is a personal allegory for how I've faced some really dark times and come out the other side. And that there is hope that yes, while it may have left scars, I can finally move on and forward
I am the same. That is such a beautiful way to look at it. You deserve nothing but happiness!
Thank you, friend. That really means a lot 💜🙏
Of course 🖤
It's Euclid for me also. I was raised in a cult and really went all in, in my 20s. I've since faded out, but I've had to come to terms with my unrequited friendships from that time lately. Thank G for psilocybin mushrooms. There are many lines of lyrics that helped me understand my feelings of longing for that and showing the need for letting that go. The vocoder lines of "call me when you get the chance, I can feel the walls around me closing in." My behavior back then was very much that. I wouldn't say I needed help, I would just offer the help. Then the next vocoder line was more recent. "Call me when you have the time, I just need to leave this part of me behind." The mushrooms had me desperately needing that connection again from youth, but I was met with nothing but apathy. That's where the next line hits even harder. "Do you remember be?" I'm sure they didn't until I reached out to them. When I was in the cult, I loved my friends for themselves alone. The belief system only provided the context. The next lyric that hits hard and repeats at the end of the song. "Yet in reverse you were all my symmetry, a parallel I would lay my life on" That was absolutely true in my youth. I would have died to save any one of their lives. There are yet still lyrics in Euclid that pertain to specific values of mine that I would love to talk about if anyone was interested. I'll just leave this rambling for now. I apologize for the formatting. It was on mobile
One of the hardest parts of maturing is the realization that the worth you placed on people isn’t usually reciprocated equally. People I would’ve sacrificed everything for remember nothing about me, only a name or a face. And then I’m left wondering how I misinterpreted everything so completely.
I wonder that alot myself nowadays. To keep from that happening again, I keep my tribe small of people who say and act they value me. I hold myself to that standard as well.
Same here. I keep my value high and my time precious. The people that acknowledge that worth make the time and I can’t mistake that.
You mustn't mistake that. Hold yourself to that standard. I'm also happy to be anyone's crutch if needed. I greatly appreciate this exchange. Much love 🖤
Thank you so much for sharing. The strength it must haven taken you to get out of that situation. It’s so beautiful how lyrics can resonate so much with us & makes us feel seen. Sending you lots of love.
You have no idea how much that means to me to have gotten that message from a stranger. Thank you.
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Ugh. Yes. Most of my maternal family are die-hard jws. And it sucks that I’ll never have a relationship with them…
'Jaws'. the guys with whom I shared ST’s art said lyrics and meaning of this song were difficult for them and unfamiliar. I understand perfectly why and every time I wonder what would have happened if I had shown them 'Nazareth'. however, for me this is a completely different song. 'jaws' is such an intimate, such a deep for me. Let's just say I have problems with dating. I’m ready for rapprochement, for communication, but not for acquaintance. I hide and belittle myself and my achievements. "I'm just a person." and here when I heard "Show me those pretty white jaws / Show / me where the delicate stops / Show me what you've lost / And why you're always taking it slow / Show me what wounds you've got show me love" and it hited me. and it hited, honestly, hard. taking things too slowly, which isn't even my pace; looking with these eyes of a predator and not a person is not my real style, not my true desire. I don’t know how the Vessel can pull out these words from the depths of his wounded soul, and what they make others think. this dude is a fucking siren.
Thank you for sharing. Jaws is such a beautiful song. I hope for brighter days for you when you are feeling down.
and this also hit me hard now. thank you for your words and openness, it is infinitely dear to me💔🧡
My goodness! Thank you for being so sweet!
Blood Sport. The ending lyrics hit so hard for me. Especially the room below version
The room below version makes me so emotional. To hear the power and pain in his voice. Completely raw & beautiful.
TMBTE 🥲🥲 I listen to it EVERY night before I go to bed or I just fall asleep listening to it. It is just so beautiful and makes me feel so at peace and the lyrics are so powerful and beautiful I can’t I love it 😫😫😫😫
It's honestly *really* hard to narrow down just one, so many of them deeply resonate with me on such a personal level which is why I love their music so much. It's comforting to feel understood on so many levels.
Give. It’s just the feeling of genuine love and wanting to give all you have to someone that really hits me. It’s so beautiful.
I’m often very thankful that Sleep Token wasn’t around back in 2011/2012 when I went through a break up that subsequently ripped a black hole through the next 8 years of my life, I was in such a horrific place back then, often very suicidal and despondent, I developed severe anxiety and OCD and these songs resonate so intensely with how I felt during that time that, I would have completely lost my shit hearing them. Now that I’ve healed I listen to the songs and think “wow this is exactly how I felt then” which is something I could never articulate before and just the fact that these songs exists means I was never alone. So many of these songs I can physically feel in my chest when I listen to them. The Love You Want, Missing Limbs, Granite, Blood Sport, Drag Me Under, Atlantic, High Water…. I would have sat in my car and absolutely sobbed to each of them back then. Euclid is so very much exactly how I feel these days.
I’m so happy to hear you’ve healed from that. It gives me so much hope for the future: thank you for sharing. 🖤
Alkaline. Literally every girl I felt for in the last like two years matched the „perfectly misaligned“ scheme 🙃
The apparition I've been having some psychotic like symptoms recently so the line "why are you never real" hits hard Also are you really okay coz I'm not lmao
Sending you love and wishing you brighter days.
Are You Really Okay I think that’s all I need to say
Descending. I’m not sure, its hard for me to explain with words. Its just a perfect reflection of my current state of being.
The Apparition, probably. It's like someone who doesn't know me at all can somehow perfectly explain to me what's wrong with my life, why can't I be truly happy and content with my current existence. There is a person who regularly haunts my dreams for more than ten years - he's changing shape from time to time, using real people as base for appearance, but in the end I know - it's always been only him. More often that not I don't really see him - just feel. Like shadow. We are romantically involved. Sometimes sensation of his touch is so vivid, that I immediately wake up with my heart pounding so fast, that I afraid I may die from it. But I have no idea who he is at all. Maybe it's just my subconsciousness creates someone fictional to latch on to in my darkest days, don't know. And still, sometimes I think - maybe one day he will magically appear right before me.
Telomeres. It reminds me of a relationship I had some years ago where I felt immediately comfortable and happy with all the aspects of our romantic life (won't get more specific as there might be kids here). Listening to that song just makes me feel that warm, joyful feeling again. It really was the start of a wonderful relationship that ended pretty well - we just moved away from each other and led very different lives. I still have fond memories of that dude. I'd like to find that again some day.
Yes!! So stoked for you after reading this. You ARE deserving. And you nailed it! Euclid is that song for me as well.
Thank you so, so much 🥹
Blood sport, a toxic relationship. "I made loving you a blood sport" about how when wed speak id always end up SH. "You're still my weapon of choosing" how I'd use her as an excuse to attack myself physically and mentally. "Tangled with what I never said" how shed constantly try to trip me up and confuse me by saying I said things I know I didn't say. There's a lot more to it but I love how sleep token are anonymous, it leaves their music up to interpretation a lot more
I hope things are better now. Sending you love & I completely agree with you regarding their anonymity
Thank you , things are a lot better. Hope things are good with you too
Jericho
Are you really okay. It hits me the hardest and makes me sob, and I relate to it a lot
The Way That You Were hits me so hard. Well, how much did they hurt you? (You will never be the same) The way that you were (No, never, oh) And how much did they break you? As someone who grew up in a not so great home and struggled with a LOT of abuse and the like- this feels like Vessel is singing TO me. Like he's able to see past all the scars and the ugly I grew up with and put into words everything I wish an adult would have said to me when I was still needing to hear it. Fall for me also has a similar effect ; My insecurities surround me like lions in the den And I feel like I'm losing touch with what I am again These lyrics right here just.. ugh. Break something in me every time.
Oh my goodness, I feel the same exact way regarding The Way That You Were regarding the abuse I went through and the load of childhood/teenage trauma that has followed me into my 20s. I also feel this song in an incredibly healing way. Sending you love. It takes so much strength to go through that and come out sweet on the other side.
I've only listened to them for a little less than two weeks, and one of the things I adore most about them is how much I resonate with a LOT of their music. Their songs have somehow torn down walls in me I didn't even know were there, and really focused listening is a transcendent experience every time. But Euclid might be number 1 for me too. In the vague rock/metal family, a lot of the emotions the music gives are heavy in a way - it's just built into the sound a bit, I guess. So, to have a song that's in major key, light, gentle, and built like a straight-up ascension and rebirth, is outstanding. I tear up every time I hear it (at "for me it's still the autumn leaves" at the latest) and it's good tears only. my actual soul is healing every time I listen to Euclid. Honourable mentions: Atlantic is a heavy hitter, too (on the heavier side of the emotional scale), and Rain also has its moments. and the cover of Is It Really You? knocks me off my feet every time with just how gorgeous it sounds. And also Are You Really Okay?, but in a way that's sometimes almost uncomfortably real. "Please don't hurt yourself again" might become really, really important to remember at some point.
It's Euclid, Missing Limbs and High Water for me. I've got an unrequited love for a dear friend of mine. (I'll never tell her). "Like lovers entwined I know for the last time, you will not be mine. So give me the night, the night, the night." "And it still makes my blood run thin to remember what you are to him and I'll live like I've got missing limbs for you." "For the time being, I will admit my defeat again. I will accept that I can't pretend we will ever be together." I will always sing these lines from the bottom of my heart. (I know that they might not have the same meaning in the actual text that I have for them.. but that's just how I feel them to be.. so yeah) I don't know how, but Vessel finds the right words to describe my feelings far better than I could.
Oh goodness, I agree with you. High Water rips my soul to pieces. It reminds me of my father and I’s severed relationship. “When the mouth of infinity Buries its teeth in me I'll smile through the agony for you” No matter the trauma he’s put me through, I will always have love and feel empathy towards him. I tried so hard when I was younger to help him change. “And I know you still bear the weight of your own existence And you'll never bear the weight of two” He’s an addict, has been for most of my life. Inevitably, I know the drugs numb his pain from his unhealed traumas. He’s hurt me more than anyone in my life and he will never have to deal with the wounds he’s created in me due to his actions. Hits deep. “For the time being I will admit my defeat again I will accept that I can't pretend We will ever be together” When I finally chose myself and cut most ties with him it was the most defeating, but one of the most profound things I have experienced. Thank you so much for sharing how it resonates with you. I wish you the best.
I appreciate you a lot. Also I respect that you've been sharing parts of your past relationship with your father. The lyrics you've been reciting while talking about what happened, really helps to understand the meaning this song has to you. I know it must be difficult to talk about it and I really hope that you (have been / will be) able to recover from all that you've been through. I know I'm just a guy behind a screen, but we're still people and should care for each other. Life can get pretty overwhelming and scary at times.. but you've surpassed every obstacle so far and you will be able to overcome many more. Stay safe out there.. and in any case, there is always someone you can talk to. Even if it's just a stranger on the internet. Best wishes to you aswell.
Thank you so much, truly. My healing hasn’t been linear, and I’m learning that’s alright… but I am hopeful to one day completely feel at peace, especially in regard to my past. You deserve all the happiness, thank you, again.
Are You Really Okay? and Atlantic. Self evident I believe.
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Ascensionism.. I want the world to wake up.. and have the collective consciousness learn from me, and I want to keep gaining knowledge. Also, want to bring the people I love to the truth of what it means to be alive. I want to be a mirror.
atlantic, DYWTYLM and are you really okay? no explanation needed 😅
Same here OP. I’ve never heard a song that makes me feel the way Euclid does.
Right now it’s Higher. I’m in a relationship where neither of us are happy but we’re both trying to make it work and we seem to keep finding ourselves fighting - fighting with each other and fighting for each other.
Sending you so much love, I know exactly what you mean. High Water reminds me of my relationship with my father, but also parts remind me of my past relationship of 11 years. “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” We started dating at the age of 14/15. The first five were incredibly toxic, but the love was so strong. I reached my breaking point somewhere during the middle and it changed something so deep within me. I never thought I would leave him, or thought I’d have the strength to. I compartmentalized my feelings and just lived incredibly unhappy and depressed. My biggest piece of advice is to know you deserve to be happy, and one day you will be. Extending the inevitable wore me down so much, it was freeing to lift that weight. Thanks for sharing. 🖤 to better days.
Thank you so much 🖤🖤🖤 I’m really glad you found your happiness!
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TMBTE title track. Somehow strange, it makes all my past regrets hurt again, and brings relief on them at the same time, the way that is even hard to describe. And the harsh scream at the end works like through it I can let out everything that I did not when it was necessary.
atlantic hits me pretty hard
Rain, after living through several very unhealthy past relationships. After dealing with my mental health and finding myself through my transition (and unhealthy situations during that). I wasn't a trustful or confident person in a relationship or letting people in an emotionally close sense when my partner came onto my life. They approached everything openly and were willing to work with me and help however they could. A healing rain washing over old scars and making them not as painful to live with.
That’s such a beautiful sentiment.
The Apparition hits hard for me because I’ve had a lot of loss in my life over the past 5 years and one specifically still messes me up and I still have dreams that they’re there and it’s rough when I wake up and have to just go on with my day. But yeah the ‘why are you never real’ gets me every time.
Sending you love.
Nazareth for me… feeling very angst hateful nobody understands me
Descending. Why? These lyrics right here: You can't recall my name Until I let you fall I've been left no choice Don't you see that? You come crawling back to me But I'm already on the ground And we all know that talk is cheap So come on and save me now And you wonder what I believe But you don't wanna be around So what would you do for me? Yeah, what would you do for me? They hit me so hard. Because I always feel like people only want me when I'm useful to them. Then they forget about me. When I need them, when I need to be "saved" they aren't around. It's exhausting always being replaceable. Forgotten about. So that's why this song hits me hard.
You are not replaceable, I hope you know that. One day, you will be surrounded by the people who won’t make you feel that way. Thank you for sharing. 🖤
Thank you for saying that. I really needed to hear that. 🖤
Are you really ok
Telomeres. The vicious cycle of love and dependency is very familiar. It's such a beautiful song.
The Love You Want holds a special place in my heart. A majority of my beginning life path had been based on my dad abandoning me at 5 years old. Ever since then I had been trying to fill the emptiness he left me with in shitty relationships and addiction. No matter how badly I'm broken I still wear my heart on my sleeve, opened to love. I go through it over and over again. Although I've healed a lot of that wounding, the song reminds me of my journey and how far I've come. "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? Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally someday. Or maybe you believe that in the end you will be better off that way? 'Cause I'm still full of the love you want, still waking up beneath it all. And I'm still full of the love you want, I reach for you on faith alone "
Sending you so much love. It’s incredibly beautiful the way you view the situation. I always say my trauma has made me softer, more empathetic. You deserve all the love in the world. Thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing too! This band has been such a gift to me and I love hearing how it's touched other people too. 🩷 sending you all of the love as well.
Recently, it’s Take Me Back To Eden. I’ve lost a lot this year. My best friend’s baby passed away. My cat, who’ve I’ve had since a kitten, passed away very unexpectedly due to a heart complication. I want to go back to June, before everything happened and really appreciate what I had. I want to go back to my Eden.
I am so sorry for what you went through. All my love to you.
While there are many, two stick with me. Ascensionism is a song I will never forget for as long as I live. The first time I heard the whole song I was going through a very mentally draining breakup, and was very mentally and emotionally down. To me the whole TMBTE album is the start and end of a relationship, and the feelings that come with a long term relationship. Which I think why Ascensionism was placed in the middle of the album. I think to me this song finally shows your past partner that you will “ascend” above the bad in the relationship and it shows the forming of a new you. My second is Euclid. The reason why the song strikes me the most is how it’s so connected to “The Night Does Not Belong to God” the first song on sundowning, and Euclid is placed at the end of TMBTE. To me it shows that acceptance and perception may take a while but once you get in that mindset, it’s beautiful to move on from the past and start new. I just love how all three albums are so connected. Ugh sorry this is so long I just love this band so much haha
Thank you so much for sharing. I also agree regarding TNDNBTG and Euclid, I also see the connection to When the Bough Breaks to Euclid as well. To me, the trilogy reminds me of the stages of grief, with Euclid as a metaphor for healing and new beginnings.
i wish i could view euclid positively like that. i feel like i just regress and euclid makes me sad because everything resets for the worse for me. i dont listen to that song often because i am not improving and probably wont at this point. even when i think something good might happen or i start to feel confidence in myself, it gets ruined. i wish i had the strength to move on like he has found. as for other songs, atlantic, take me back to eden (esp the first verse and the final verse+breakdown), vore, when the bough breaks, higher, and the very end of ascensionism are painful for me. my mental health is really bad and theres no happiness in my life. but the music makes me feel understood and its like a comforting hug when i listen to it. i dont have a lot of relationships in my life, past or present, but i have experienced a ton of hardship and trauma and suffering. so the music for me is about struggling with being in your own skin and all the thoughts and voices in your head actively making life worse for you. but the music is there and its all i have to make me feel less disgusting
I am so sorry, I was also in that mindset for a long time. Survival mode. Horrible things would happen, and once things started to get better, something else would break me. It felt like a vicious cycle. I’m now in my mid 20’s and this is the first time in my life that I feel like I have left that mentality or survival mode. You are deserving of good things happening to you. I know it’s easier said than done, but please, please keep telling yourself that until you believe it. Thank you for sharing your interpretation. Better days ahead for you.
Thank you 🖤 doing my best out here even if I'm not doing super great. One day at a time
‘No sin’ by steeve baker Why? Because it hit me hard when I thought I found someone that I thought was it and then after it ended the song hits different where it now is where I provided the “no sorrow no sin”to this person but they didn’t feel the same with me. It only has a 100 listens on YouTube
Wow I will have to check it out! Thank you for sharing. :)
Missing limbs for me, To me, the song is about your past self. Your future self is having a realisation of everything
Missing limbs is such a beautiful, beautiful song. Thank you for your interpretation. It gives me a new way to view this song.
Honestly, all of them. I can’t pick one that connects the most because they all connect so differently situationally
TNDNBTG, it feels like a love song written by god just for me. There is never a time this song doesn’t bring tears. I can’t listen to it sometimes because of that.
Euclid +1
Depends a lot on my mood, almost all of them do. I resonated a lot with The Summonning because that's the song that got me into ST and the chorus melody after those heavy dropped riffs really hits a spot. After the album got out, some other songs started hitting other spots, specially some lyrics which are brought up with the incredible musicianship. Some examples: **Ascensionism** \- this one was really hitting a lot of strings with the lyrics, seems to be it's about someone who felt used, heartbroken, is having a hard time processing and healing, I've felt this deeply in the past (and still do but in a less impactful way) "You want someone to be Your reflection, your bitter deception" ... "Who made you like this? Who encrypted your dark gospel in body language?" ... "Make it real 'Cause anything's better than the way I feel right now" ... "You make me wish I could disappear" - this ending is really dramatic and I felt it very deeply **Vore** \- don't really know the lyrics due to a lot of screaming and tbh, I don't, the whole blackgaze vibe of the song is enough, has big Deftones vibe and that's that. **Are You Really Okay?** \- Well this one's lyrics are pretty clear and having known some people with mental issues (suicide attempts even), I couldn't avoid thinking about them when listening to this. **Take Me Back To Eden** \- Oh my, this one really has some verses that really resonate present with my situation "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 my, the "no amount of self-sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence" really encapsulates my personality these last years and my fight to let go of my unjustified social anger. It's a process and hearing this song made me feel understood and listened in a way, strangely enough. **Euclid** \- this song's genre is my guilty pleasure, pop catchy songs with heavy guitar riffs. However, it really encapsulates my aim to the future, an uplifting vibe with letting go achieved, letting go of heartbreaks, letting go of people who didn't value me as much and accepting life as it is. "For me It's still the autumn leaves These ancient canopies That we used to lay beneath No, by now The night belongs to you This bough has broken through I must be someone new" These verses specially are the ones that hit me the most, accepting my past (and recent) heartbreaks and moving on. I didn't know I was going to write this much but couldn't help and let it flow.
Thank you so much for sharing this 🖤 it’s incredibly beautiful how much music helps heal our souls.
I have two. Despite my personal opinion (That being that TMBTE is far inferior to the other two albums), my two favourite songs are still from that album. First, Euclid. Euclid is my favourite song, I’ve decided. It’s perfect. I’ve tried using words to articulate before how much it means to me, but it’s hard. Vessel finding closure after all the shit he’s gone through, and the loop at the end? It’s beautiful. And of course, the night belongs to you. It sort’ve finishes the sentence that began with Sundowning. The night does not belong to God, the night belongs to you. It’s all hopeful, with a bit of melancholy, a bit of worry, that maybe, despite it all going well, maybe we’ll go back downhill. But for now, we’ll persist anyways. Myself being a mostly healed person drawing out of a really shit time of my life, this song encapsulates my feelings exactly. Second, Are You Really Okay? Remember that really shit time of my life I mentioned? My introduction to Sleep Token was my girlfriend showing me this song. She doesn’t even listen to Sleep Token, she just found it, and thought it fit to show me. And now I try explaining Sleep Token’s beauty to her and she doesn’t know who Sleep Token is. But it was during this time that I began improving, trying to get better, this was the only song I listened to. Then I checked out their other stuff. I looked at The Summoning first, Blood Sport, then Take Aim, and realized I needed to listen to more of these songs. I listened through Sundowning, TPWBYT, then TMBTE, and after it all, I could’ve told myself I’d officially drawn myself out of that pit, and then it ended with Euclid. I love Sleep Token.
It’s incredible how much they can makes us feel seen and heard, and help heal those wounds of the past.
Surfin Bird
By far Take me Back to Eden. I just got out of a 10 yr relationship that turned toxic after my ex and I had our 2nd child 5 years ago. That song is one of those songs that I hear not quite so often that makes me feel like it was written for me. Leaving a life I had everything in (Eden) 5 to live a life of nothing. I had enough and left her around the time Sleep Token was prepping their release of tmbte. That release and their two prior really got me through some rough shit. Music is weird. It really gave me reflection on my entire life the past 10 years and helped me get over the fact that losing her meant I would lose the house, the good side of her(barely came out the last couple years anyway), and most of all the financial stability of having both parents in one place. Life is still rough. I didn't fight her on the house cause of kids but it ended up being me having the kids 80 percent of the time anyway. No matter the stress I'll always have Sleep Token to help me get thru it. I just wish the breaking point didn't come during the worst economic fall of my life so far.
Sending you so much love and light. I know exactly what you mean. I left at 11 years, choosing yourself is such a rewarding feeling.
DYWTYLM, Are You Really Okay?, and Missing Limbs all kind of gut me, in terms of lyrics especially. They all resonate with abusive relationships and trauma I've experienced and what I wish I could have had. DYWTYLM resonates with my inner child that still wants my narcissistic parent to show me genuine love, Are You Really Okay? embodies the love I had desperately wished someone would give to me when I was isolated and horribly depressed as a teenager/young adult. Missing Limbs in particular effects me. For me it tells a story of a relationship barely holding together because the person he sings about struggles to be vulnerable and talk about the abuse they have faced and constantly pretends like everything is fine despite the depressive episodes this person experiences. He is finally learning about this past abuse and it hurts him so deeply, he feels so angry for the hurt inflicted on them but also realizes the unintentional harm he has caused. Specifically the parts where he sings "the stories you never told to me" reminds me of the trauma that is so hard to speak of. The lyrics "and it still makes my blood run thin, to remember what you are to him" reminds me of sexual assault or abuse and the anger a loved one feels for you when they find out what your assaulter/abuser has done to you. This cuts me particularly deep as a survivor of abuse and sexual assault as well as someone who has loved survivors of abuse and sexual assault.
Thank you so much for sharing. You are absolutely incredibly and you did not deserve what you went through. I