"My, my, those eyes like fire I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre" has to be the greatest description of going back to a toxic relationship that will eventually kill you . Like Moth to a flame for the attraction and Funeral Pyre to describe his end if he goes back.
You're the first reactor our of god knows how many to talk about how the chorus is evolving as the song goes on, which is one of my favorite things about the song.
The beginning " drifting through the fog" = the album Sundowning, perfect oceans The album" This place will become your tomb" ocean theme. The whole beginning is a call back and how he's still attracted and called to the other in the song. There are call backs through this album and song. So many. Go listen to chokehold now
I think the ocean theme is another metaphor for this ever present imagery of being lost in or consumed by another person that their albums have; similar to the goddess motif. Vessel knows that giving themselves over to this entity, this force of nature will end in ruin, but is so awestruck by them that they are willing to anyway. I wonder if Eden refers to the time before the pain they caused or before the pain of not having them.
The way I interpreted this song is this someone who wants things to go back to the way things were. Something is different, things have changed for him and he wants to go back to a simpler time, or perhaps his eden represents a state of mind or a relationship with someone who represents "The Godmother". This whole song is an escelation of force. At first hes grasping at the concept that things arnt the same and it seems ethereal, not real. Then as the R&B part fills in its more grounded as a person whos going through the walls of life and trying to cope, but hes angry because he cant. The softer part after the second chorus is him seemingly bargaining almost. Trying to reason with his feelings, and when he cant it escelates to the breakdown, which is feel is an appropriate portion as a 'breakdown' of his walls and composure. Its feral and hes done reasoning and bargaining. Hes willing to do ANYTHING to go back to the way things were.
Yes I been through this I agree completely the love of life, my daughters mother is a drug addict the more I tried to love her the crazier she got. In the end it just gets worse exactly how I took this song
The ending , he was so angry he couldn’t hold it in anymore and ‘bit back in anger’. I’m looking through all your videos with sleep token but if you haven’t been told , a lot of these lyrics tie into past songs and even past albums. It’s crazy the attention to detail and even why certain times he yells. Love it !
Sleep Token's drummer is something else If you watch a video of him playing the drums it looks like a he’s conducting an orchestra I love it how they mix metal and rap
@@soonerjohn06It's like he has such control that he doesn't even let the sticks bounce back, he pulls them back. Having seen him playing without his face on, conducting an orchestra is a perfect description, pure calm and focus.
"Feels like water rushing to the shore", you described what I couldn't put my finger on perfectly! Great review, also loved your reaction when he hit the line "Room feels like a meat freezer, I dangle in it like cold cuts"
Between Vessel's vocals and writing and II's drumming, there is a plethora of genres and musical influences. II's style is very much infleunced by metal but he incorporates gospel, RnB, and pop to his drumming. I don't care about what other people say, this is my album of the year.
This song cuts through my soul like a filet knife and makes me cry. The ending has some of the lyrics to Chokehold in there as well. So happy to see these guys finally blowing up.
I love how I can just see in your face how you're taking it in for what it is. You're analyzing it. And that's exactly how this band should be listened to
Vessel's voice is really haunting all on its own with no production. He's one of the most talented musicians/singer/song writer I've ever heard. All his lyrics are poetic and tragic but hit so hard in the feels. This entire album has callbacks to their earlier songs and albums. This album was the third in a trilogy that told the story of Vessel and his toxic relationship. They are very theatrical and it's so damn good!! This man has a way with lyrics and then his music is off the chain. Absolutely enthralled by this man's voice also.....you can never go wrong with Sleep Token. His lyrics are second to none! Do some more PLEASE 🙏.... They are soooo good. Do Chokehold, Granite, Rain, The Apparition, Aqua Regia....ANY song by them is 🔥..... Enjoy ❤ Worship ❤
I love that you take your time to appreciate the lyrics. You really listen. Great reaction, I hope there will be more. My personal favorites from the same album are The Apparition and Rain. But whatever song of theirs you do next, you're in for a treat. You can't go wrong with Sleep Token.
The song Gods has lyrics "No more teeth to bite with" Here, there's "Grow back your sharpest teeth, you know my desire" After the anger and sorrow pass, he still wants her. Even tho she hurt him.
@@brianalmeida1964 Exactly. Unfortunately, This place will become your tomb doesn't have a single song with any connection to this..at least if I remember correctly.
The lines “it was no accident” and “we were tangled up like branches in a flood” are direct callbacks to the first track on this album, “Chokehold” and lyrical callbacks are very common from their first album until the very last song on this recent one. If you do a full dive, you absolutely need to listen to “The night does not belong to god” off their first album BEFORE you listen to ”Euclid” in this album in order to be able to fully appreciate it in it’s entirety
To me this song is parallel with the story in Genesis. No one told him how to breathe. In the fog. He didn’t have knowledge of his surroundings. Then they bite the fruit and is kicked out of his paradise. All he knew. Then the rapping part is he is now realizing everything at once. The screaming at the end is him pleading to a metaphoric god to take him back to that paradise or woman or loved one that passed on.
The fruit of desire, the seeds of despair, the suffering leading to an enlightenment. The enduring love transcending it all. This song is magic, invoking the deepest confines of the soul. A true genuine masterpiece.
Agreed, although I also think it has the component of going back to before he knew what he knows about the other person. It's eden specifically, so before eating the apple of knowledge
Especially the line "no amount of self sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence" and the third verse overall makes me think so, like no matter how mad he gets at the other person, that will never bring back the peace and the happiness he had with them before. To me, the whole song sounds like the process of trying to get over the loss of someone, the first verse being the sadness of realizing everything's approaching the end; the second part describing the frustration and chaos of trying to live and forcing oneself to do things they don't like in order to keep going. Then finally, the third part is about trying to find peace and acceptance with it all, only to, in the end, devolve into complete chaos and angst with the realization you still wish you could go back somehow. That all goes into Euclid, which shows him finding peace with the memories he still holds dear (the autumn leaves, the ancient canopies), but realizing he must move on with life by becoming someone new, and finally accepting that, for the last time, what or whoever it was that he was longing for after all this time will not be his.
@@terrylee8111 DYWTYLM is a grower for sure if you don’t know how it’s analyzed in the way that vessel is portraying it to himself. He isn’t necessarily singing a song about a loved one asking if the person loves him. He’s saying these words as if he were talking into a mirror. The entire song is a direct reflection of how he feels about himself. Referencing “my reflection just wont smile back at me like I know it should” and you hear him pleading to his reflection “smile back, at me.” To himself. And many other lines like “can you ever forgive…” (pause) “yourself.” It hits a much deeper nerve when you look into it a bit further. Many people don’t know that he’s actually talking to himself. Asking questions to himself, providing some insight of how he preserves things around him to others and how he describes how he is decaying away. It’s not for everyone but it’s still a great song in my opinion.
@@jacobbaker1609 yeah I dont think its a bad song at all. The whole album is like nothing ive ever heard. I just think its the only one that dosent really take you on this emotional journey from sadness and chaos like the others do. It just kidda stays the same tempo the whole time. Which there is nothing wrong with that. It just stands out from the rest.
@@jacobbaker1609Holy shit… yea I didnt know that. That just gives a whole new appreciation for the song, for Vessel and for ST in general. Protect this man at ALL costs
Already commented, but (this is my view on it) is "Take me back to Eden" is him saying he wishes he could go back to the honeymoon phase of a relationship. Wanting to go back to when everything was fresh, new and happy. Before it all went to shit
I think of it like this. Throughout their discography, especially on their EPs "One" and "Two", there was this sort of theme with the song order. Three songs on each EP, and the order goes like this: First song is about going TO Sleep, second song is about what Vessel does when he's connected to Sleep, and the third song is Vessel sort of waking up and being away from Sleep. If you put that order into this trilogy, you get: Sundowning --> Falling asleep, starting the relationship with Sleep, going to Sleep This Place Will Become Your Tomb --> The chaotic, tumultuous, tempestuous relationship with Sleep Take Me Back To Eden --> Vessel waking up from Sleep and finally realizing that the whole relationship was just BAD. With this in mind, it's PAINFULLY obvious that "Take me back to Eden" is Vessel's crying out moment to go back to how life was BEFORE Sleep. Before all this hell he's been in. Even the gods of this world are growing tired of it. He's been nothing but a waking, living hell. He's been nothing but evil and dark and dangerous when he's connected to Sleep. So "Take me back to Eden" is his sort of cry out to be taken back to that time.
I think he singing about how the relationship hurts him but he still feels happy in an empty way you know? Like he won’t be taken advantage of but he also won’t break away
They remind me musically of like, def tones, with some of the best singing in music today. He goes to show you that you don’t have to just belt high notes. There is beauty in the low end as well. Personally I am here for it. We neglect the lower end and leave it to the dad rock bands, but like dude this is beautiful and haunting. It sticks in your heads for days after listening. “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” This line is incredible and so true. You can love someone more than anything in the world, if they don’t choose you back, then it still goes nowhere.
Bro, I enjoyed the reaction. I believe lyrically it is about the death of a living soul through drowning. The soul takes a step back to describe its disappointments in life and comes to the point of not wanting death as he is now ready to fight back in anger only to realize death has a hold of him and there is nothing he can do about it. The heavy end is his final violent outcry as he now only wants to go back to the place of pure love ,peace, beauty and life which is the beloved " eden" before " the fall" .
Sleep token has made me hit my feelings deep since I first heard them And on top of that, the bars Vessel spits are flawless. it's right up there with Joyner Lucas, J cole etc. Im loving the metal/hip hop/gospel/R&B mash up.
take me back to eden means take me to the beginning and lets start over knowing a better way. l8isten to the album from start to finish. "WHEN WE WERE MADE, IT WAS NO ACCIDENT"
You should listen to this on the album because the next song Euclid flows right in dude. Almost like he made it to Eden and then wrote Euclid. Unbelievable album.
‘I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me but I’m about to bite back in anger’ at the end of the song when it goes hard. That’s vessel biting back in anger.
Great reaction and deep dive into the lyrics. You'll enjoy, I feel, reacting to more Sleep Token songs cause they are all like this. Very deep, encryptic, with some even calling back lyrically to songs on other albums. It's amazing how much thought and detail Vessel (their lead singer/songwriter) puts into these songs.
To help with lyrics most songs are him and another woman he had a relationship with and some times the song is either about the relationship or him talking to himself or the other person talking to themselves.
"He sounds like he's drowning" Then Vessel sang the lyrics "My my those eyes like fire, I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre." You couldn't have been more right, my good sir.
I`m a simple man, you react to Sleep Token (or brazillian music, cause its fucking good) and i`ll be here with my thumbs up. Great video man, keep going!
"My my your eyes like fire I'm a wind insect You're a funeral pyre" He's atracted to the intensity of her gaze like a moth to flame, but it leads to his death. "... along both lines of a pathway higher" The high road is a two-way street. There are some BARS in here
My two cents. Throughout Sleep Token’s discography, we hear Vessel describe a tumultuous relationship with Sleep. Sleep is almost a parasitic deity who lured Vessel in and then used him. In my opinion, Take Me Back to Eden is Vessel crying out wishing that he could go back to life before Sleep, now that he knows how toxic their relationship is.
I like the theory but I believe TMBTE refers to when he he’s the veil over his eyes. I don’t think he wants his life back, I think he wants to go back to when he was blissfully unaware of the toxicity. I think he wants to be a pawn
@@DeathStarDaddy Exactly! He wants to be back with Sleep despite all of their toxicity. He loves them regardless. He wants them to "bite through these wires" and to "grow back your sharpest teeth". Vessel knows how dangerous on the physical and mental Sleep is for him but he doesn't care, he'll "travel far beyond the path of reason" for them. It's really sad when you think about it, because essentially, it's like he's saying that abuse is his Eden.
I just wish people that listen to ST could go back to the beginning and fully know the full story!!! Not many know it’s between him and the Diety Sleep!!! They just think it’s love stories and sad songs with him and a girl! With would also be beautiful! Don’t get me wrong!
The ultimate callback song to previous albums. Speaking of which, once you have reacted to the entire TMBTE (or at least most of it (its worth it)) you should go back album by album. There are some BANGERS in previous albums. Higher Supremacy!!! Edit: one thing I dont think gets recognised is the high note vessel hits early in the song. Like damn. Mans got range
I don’t like heavy metal, but this is turning me on to it. Any other bands you'd recommend? so far listening to I See Stars, bmth, and October Ends. OE have a new song as well - its called Damaged and its great!
I really enjoy the way you're looking at deeper meanings of it. Ive seem many on every single song. And they continue to evolve into a higher understanding. I see it as him singin like an angel whose been cast out of Heaven (Eden is when we became man) now having this human experience of choice and duality, it sucks, remembering that we came from and are one with the divine, being stuck here pisses you off... All we really want is to go back to Eden, with the peace love and beauty. The innocence
P.s. even watching this with you I understood the verse "I'm a winged insect you're a funeral pyre" as... Like a moth to the flame I can't resist death (the end) or the anger or the violence
One more thing... It was interesting that you brought up sephiroth. It is a main category in the kaballah and I've noticed Vessels awareness of it in many songs, also the bible, alchemy, chemistry, astrology, mysticism, mathematics, etc.
Just want to put out there that I see the "I'm a waking hell" line as either a plea for help, because of what has been lost since leaving Eden or a statement of the pain of not being in Eden, not a statement on what Eden is
To me all of sleep tokens albums have some connection to TMBTE. Sundowning(the first album) is the beginning of a love, hence songs like sugar. This Place Will Become Your Tomb (second album) I think something goes wrong in that relationship and he has a longing for the love he had, hence songs like Alkaline, where he is praising her. In TMBTE he finally realizes that what they had was not good for him hence the album as a whole. Sleep token IS a journey through what it feels like to lose someone, and I’m here for all of it
They have a surprisingly large amount of Gospel music influence (revealed by their drummer in a recent interview), so that non-R&B part that felt R&B might have been a little Gospel flair you picked up on.
If you think this sounds good in the mix on the album, you should see them live. Just as good if not better because of how organic it is. One of the best live shows I’ve ever seen.
@tuspu8255 I also feel that When The Bough Breaks should also be listened to before Euclid. It's not as necessary as TNDNBTG, but it is also referenced in Euclid's lyrics. Stay safe 🤘 ✌️
@@brianalmeida1964Euclid references a TON of songs. Not just directly but indirectly, answering previous questions or calls, carrying on the story, etc. its a masterpiece. Also when it says just give me 5 more minutes, the song has 5 mins remaining. Absolutely awesome song
Euclid was my first Sleep Token song I heard and I don't regret it... It fits everything without knowingly hitting every nerve in the pulses of a broken heart.
Sleep Token is incredible, I think my new hobby is watching people react to them 😂 Quick question, have you listened to “While We Sleep” by Insomnium? I’d recommend checking it out if you have a chance.
My two cents on the rap version of this song: (WARNING: Sleep Token lore gets graphic) I wonder if Vessel (the lead singer) is talking about how bad his life is when he wakes up which is why he wants to continue to stay sleep and be with his deity, Sleep. Because in Sleep Token lore, the only way he can connect with Sleep is by literally going to sleep. Check it out "Well, yeah, I spit blood when I wake up Sink porcelain stained, choking up brain matter and make-up Just two days since the mainframe went down and I'm still messed up" I'm wondering if he killed someone two days ago and he's been sleep for those two days? "The mainframe" going down could be a metaphor for him snapping. Is that why the sink is stained and he's "choking up brain matter and make up"? It could be the fact that he literally ate this person because in earlier Sleep Token songs, it's hinted that Vessel has Vorarephilia (An erotic desire to be consumed by , or to personally consume another person or creature) He "spits blood" when he wakes up because he hates the fact that he woke up because he doesn't want to and he also doesn't want to face the reality of what he did or how screwed up his life is. He's angry. "Room feels like a meat freezer, I dangle in like cold cuts Missed calls, answer phones from people I just don't trust" Is the room cold because the person he killed is in there dead and he doesn't want the body to smell? It can be both that AND the fact that we as humans sleep better when it's cold and he wants to stay sleep for as long as he can so he can be with his deity. If it feels like a meat freezer in there, it's REALLY cold. You can tell he's been sleep the entire two days too because there's missed calls from people he doesn't trust. Those missed calls could be from people asking where he's been or asking where his partner has been because they haven't been seen or heard from in two days. If you've just committed a murder, you're not going to trust anyone that calls you. "Mirror talk, fake love, but I'll take a pound of your flesh (This part makes me think even more that he consumed parts of the person after killing them) Before you take a piece of my pay stub White roses, black doves, Godmother, rise up I need you to see me for what I have become" Whomever this person that he killed, they were having problems. Financial problems maybe? Maybe the argument was over money and Vessel snapped and killed them? Maybe he was trying to calm himself down in the mirror, talk himself out of it? It was a "fake love" because this person only wanted him for his money? I'm still trying to find meaning in the "White roses, black doves" part But yes, this is part of the reason why I think he wants to stay sleep. His life literally is hell when he's awake and even though Sleep treats him like shit, it's still better than the life he has while awake, which is why his Eden is with Sleep, even though they're abusive towards him
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I believe he's gone too far and can't stop. He wishes he could go back
Vessel is simply put, a musical genius. He unlocked the code.
"My, my, those eyes like fire I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre" has to be the greatest description of going back to a toxic relationship that will eventually kill you . Like Moth to a flame for the attraction and Funeral Pyre to describe his end if he goes back.
“I’ll take a pound of your flesh before you take a piece of my pay stub” bruh! How do people not get hyped from that line?!
It's one of my favorite parts of the song!!
I get hyped every time I hear that line! Ugh! That line is dope! 🥰
It may be related to Shakespeare “The Merchant of Venice”.. (reflects the relationship between them)
AGREED
You're the first reactor our of god knows how many to talk about how the chorus is evolving as the song goes on, which is one of my favorite things about the song.
People got to listen, most can't hear anyways
The beginning " drifting through the fog" = the album Sundowning, perfect oceans The album" This place will become your tomb" ocean theme. The whole beginning is a call back and how he's still attracted and called to the other in the song.
There are call backs through this album and song. So many. Go listen to chokehold now
I really like this observation
Giiiirl, never saw it that way. Love it.
I think the ocean theme is another metaphor for this ever present imagery of being lost in or consumed by another person that their albums have; similar to the goddess motif. Vessel knows that giving themselves over to this entity, this force of nature will end in ruin, but is so awestruck by them that they are willing to anyway.
I wonder if Eden refers to the time before the pain they caused or before the pain of not having them.
The way I interpreted this song is this someone who wants things to go back to the way things were. Something is different, things have changed for him and he wants to go back to a simpler time, or perhaps his eden represents a state of mind or a relationship with someone who represents "The Godmother". This whole song is an escelation of force. At first hes grasping at the concept that things arnt the same and it seems ethereal, not real. Then as the R&B part fills in its more grounded as a person whos going through the walls of life and trying to cope, but hes angry because he cant. The softer part after the second chorus is him seemingly bargaining almost. Trying to reason with his feelings, and when he cant it escelates to the breakdown, which is feel is an appropriate portion as a 'breakdown' of his walls and composure. Its feral and hes done reasoning and bargaining. Hes willing to do ANYTHING to go back to the way things were.
Yes I been through this I agree completely the love of life, my daughters mother is a drug addict the more I tried to love her the crazier she got. In the end it just gets worse exactly how I took this song
Sleep Token is like an onion: many layers and once you get into it, your eyes are going to leak.
:D 103%agreement on this one.
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I go with layer cake. Each level is more delicious than the last and the last one was the most delicious thing you have tasted
ogres are like onions
They remind me a lot of tool which I also love just an updated version
The ending , he was so angry he couldn’t hold it in anymore and ‘bit back in anger’. I’m looking through all your videos with sleep token but if you haven’t been told , a lot of these lyrics tie into past songs and even past albums. It’s crazy the attention to detail and even why certain times he yells. Love it !
Sleep Token's drummer is something else
If you watch a video of him playing the drums it looks like a he’s conducting an orchestra
I love it how they mix metal and rap
That's a great way to put it. He somehow looks simultaneously incredibly fluid but also almost robotic. Such a great drummer
@@soonerjohn06It's like he has such control that he doesn't even let the sticks bounce back, he pulls them back.
Having seen him playing without his face on, conducting an orchestra is a perfect description, pure calm and focus.
Holy fuck, this song made me emotional as fuck,I'm 57 looking for that sound,and boom here it is
"Feels like water rushing to the shore", you described what I couldn't put my finger on perfectly! Great review, also loved your reaction when he hit the line "Room feels like a meat freezer, I dangle in it like cold cuts"
That was a bar!
Their songs have so much depth. They’re amazing! Enjoy your journey, it’s gonna be amazing!
Between Vessel's vocals and writing and II's drumming, there is a plethora of genres and musical influences. II's style is very much infleunced by metal but he incorporates gospel, RnB, and pop to his drumming. I don't care about what other people say, this is my album of the year.
This song cuts through my soul like a filet knife and makes me cry. The ending has some of the lyrics to Chokehold in there as well. So happy to see these guys finally blowing up.
Worship. Always
I love how I can just see in your face how you're taking it in for what it is. You're analyzing it. And that's exactly how this band should be listened to
Vessel's voice is really haunting all on its own with no production. He's one of the most talented musicians/singer/song writer I've ever heard. All his lyrics are poetic and tragic but hit so hard in the feels. This entire album has callbacks to their earlier songs and albums. This album was the third in a trilogy that told the story of Vessel and his toxic relationship. They are very theatrical and it's so damn good!! This man has a way with lyrics and then his music is off the chain. Absolutely enthralled by this man's voice also.....you can never go wrong with Sleep Token. His lyrics are second to none! Do some more PLEASE 🙏.... They are soooo good. Do Chokehold, Granite, Rain, The Apparition, Aqua Regia....ANY song by them is 🔥..... Enjoy
❤ Worship ❤
I love that you take your time to appreciate the lyrics. You really listen. Great reaction, I hope there will be more. My personal favorites from the same album are The Apparition and Rain. But whatever song of theirs you do next, you're in for a treat. You can't go wrong with Sleep Token.
The song Gods has lyrics
"No more teeth to bite with"
Here, there's
"Grow back your sharpest teeth, you know my desire"
After the anger and sorrow pass, he still wants her. Even tho she hurt him.
You can also add in The Offering with the lyrics:
You've got diamonds for teeth, my love
So take a bite of me
@@brianalmeida1964 Exactly.
Unfortunately, This place will become your tomb doesn't have a single song with any connection to this..at least if I remember correctly.
@@Sammyii. High Water kind of does: "When thе mouth of infinity buries its teeth in me, I'll smile through thе agony for you."
@@Sammyii. Hypnosis from TPWBYT has the lyrics:
Sink, sink your teeth
Split my skin, no
Just make me bleed
Stay safe 🤘 ✌️
Don't forget the song Jaws.
The lines “it was no accident” and “we were tangled up like branches in a flood” are direct callbacks to the first track on this album, “Chokehold” and lyrical callbacks are very common from their first album until the very last song on this recent one. If you do a full dive, you absolutely need to listen to “The night does not belong to god” off their first album BEFORE you listen to ”Euclid” in this album in order to be able to fully appreciate it in it’s entirety
“Feels like water rushing to the shore.” I loved how you described that. Great choice of words 😊.
Sleep Token is helping people heal. I can’t explain how much this album means to me.
Thank you for the reaction.
Easy sub.
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I tell people all the time that this album did more for me in 1 year than therapy did in 20
To me this song is parallel with the story in Genesis. No one told him how to breathe. In the fog. He didn’t have knowledge of his surroundings. Then they bite the fruit and is kicked out of his paradise. All he knew. Then the rapping part is he is now realizing everything at once. The screaming at the end is him pleading to a metaphoric god to take him back to that paradise or woman or loved one that passed on.
The fruit of desire, the seeds of despair, the suffering leading to an enlightenment. The enduring love transcending it all. This song is magic, invoking the deepest confines of the soul.
A true genuine masterpiece.
I would honestly watch you react to this whole album.
this song has always been a FUCKING masterpiece I'm so glad to see your perspective on this song.
Worship!
I love this band with my whole heart, worship!
I just found this song and this band yesterday and I'm blown away. Where have i been?? This is my kind of music too. 10 out of 10
7:20 Eden for me was the good times the Beginning of a LOVE.
Agreed, although I also think it has the component of going back to before he knew what he knows about the other person. It's eden specifically, so before eating the apple of knowledge
That's what I've always thought. It's a place where things were good and he was happy and he's mourning the loss of that.
Especially the line "no amount of self sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence" and the third verse overall makes me think so, like no matter how mad he gets at the other person, that will never bring back the peace and the happiness he had with them before.
To me, the whole song sounds like the process of trying to get over the loss of someone, the first verse being the sadness of realizing everything's approaching the end; the second part describing the frustration and chaos of trying to live and forcing oneself to do things they don't like in order to keep going. Then finally, the third part is about trying to find peace and acceptance with it all, only to, in the end, devolve into complete chaos and angst with the realization you still wish you could go back somehow.
That all goes into Euclid, which shows him finding peace with the memories he still holds dear (the autumn leaves, the ancient canopies), but realizing he must move on with life by becoming someone new, and finally accepting that, for the last time, what or whoever it was that he was longing for after all this time will not be his.
This band is on the next level. Every song this album except one in my opinion is a roller coster.
The Apparition?
DYWTYLM
@@terrylee8111 DYWTYLM is a grower for sure if you don’t know how it’s analyzed in the way that vessel is portraying it to himself. He isn’t necessarily singing a song about a loved one asking if the person loves him. He’s saying these words as if he were talking into a mirror. The entire song is a direct reflection of how he feels about himself. Referencing “my reflection just wont smile back at me like I know it should” and you hear him pleading to his reflection “smile back, at me.” To himself. And many other lines like “can you ever forgive…” (pause) “yourself.” It hits a much deeper nerve when you look into it a bit further. Many people don’t know that he’s actually talking to himself. Asking questions to himself, providing some insight of how he preserves things around him to others and how he describes how he is decaying away. It’s not for everyone but it’s still a great song in my opinion.
@@jacobbaker1609 yeah I dont think its a bad song at all. The whole album is like nothing ive ever heard. I just think its the only one that dosent really take you on this emotional journey from sadness and chaos like the others do. It just kidda stays the same tempo the whole time. Which there is nothing wrong with that. It just stands out from the rest.
@@jacobbaker1609Holy shit… yea I didnt know that. That just gives a whole new appreciation for the song, for Vessel and for ST in general. Protect this man at ALL costs
"Sephiroth?" at 1:03 made my entire week XD
You are just hearing this now 😱
Masterpiece . WORSHIP❤
Im here for your sleep token reactions! My absolute favorite band
Already commented, but (this is my view on it) is "Take me back to Eden" is him saying he wishes he could go back to the honeymoon phase of a relationship. Wanting to go back to when everything was fresh, new and happy. Before it all went to shit
The beginning is him asking to be taken to Eden, the end is the demand to be taken.
He sounds exactly like this live….that is actually him ❤❤
I think of it like this. Throughout their discography, especially on their EPs "One" and "Two", there was this sort of theme with the song order. Three songs on each EP, and the order goes like this: First song is about going TO Sleep, second song is about what Vessel does when he's connected to Sleep, and the third song is Vessel sort of waking up and being away from Sleep.
If you put that order into this trilogy, you get:
Sundowning --> Falling asleep, starting the relationship with Sleep, going to Sleep
This Place Will Become Your Tomb --> The chaotic, tumultuous, tempestuous relationship with Sleep
Take Me Back To Eden --> Vessel waking up from Sleep and finally realizing that the whole relationship was just BAD.
With this in mind, it's PAINFULLY obvious that "Take me back to Eden" is Vessel's crying out moment to go back to how life was BEFORE Sleep. Before all this hell he's been in. Even the gods of this world are growing tired of it. He's been nothing but a waking, living hell. He's been nothing but evil and dark and dangerous when he's connected to Sleep. So "Take me back to Eden" is his sort of cry out to be taken back to that time.
I think he singing about how the relationship hurts him but he still feels happy in an empty way you know? Like he won’t be taken advantage of but he also won’t break away
They remind me musically of like, def tones, with some of the best singing in music today. He goes to show you that you don’t have to just belt high notes. There is beauty in the low end as well. Personally I am here for it. We neglect the lower end and leave it to the dad rock bands, but like dude this is beautiful and haunting. It sticks in your heads for days after listening.
“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”
This line is incredible and so true. You can love someone more than anything in the world, if they don’t choose you back, then it still goes nowhere.
As a 90s rock fan, Sleep Token has peaked any music genre in my lifetime!! WORSHIP 🙌🏼🖤🩶🫶🏼
Such an absolute classic
Bro, I enjoyed the reaction. I believe lyrically it is about the death of a living soul through drowning. The soul takes a step back to describe its disappointments in life and comes to the point of not wanting death as he is now ready to fight back in anger only to realize death has a hold of him and there is nothing he can do about it. The heavy end is his final violent outcry as he now only wants to go back to the place of pure love ,peace, beauty and life which is the beloved " eden" before " the fall" .
Great reaction!! I’m proud to say that I discovered Sleep Token before they hit it big!!
My brotha!! You just got a subscriber great reaction
Sleep token has made me hit my feelings deep since I first heard them And on top of that, the bars Vessel spits are flawless. it's right up there with Joyner Lucas, J cole etc. Im loving the metal/hip hop/gospel/R&B mash up.
One of the best songs ever written.
I love this one. Vessel is pissed and he wants to go back to Eden!
believe it or not, his voice isnt mixed down, its a vocal technique he uses
Sleep Token’s lyrics use a lot of double entendres - it is more in line with the Sleep Token “lore” that’s a fun rabbit hole to go down lol
You should watch clips of their live shows. Vessel sounds just as amazing on stage as he does in the studio. Worship
This song & band has gotten me through some shit. Love sleep token. Love you. Worship 🤝
take me back to eden means take me to the beginning and lets start over knowing a better way. l8isten to the album from start to finish. "WHEN WE WERE MADE, IT WAS NO ACCIDENT"
I like your reactions you've gained yourself a new subscriber 👏👏
I love this band so much
You should listen to this on the album because the next song Euclid flows right in dude. Almost like he made it to Eden and then wrote Euclid. Unbelievable album.
I believe he’s talking about our relationship to our home and the reckoning that is overdue.
‘I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me but I’m about to bite back in anger’ at the end of the song when it goes hard. That’s vessel biting back in anger.
Love your reaction man! Keep it coming! Sleep Token is amazing!
His voice is not mixed, that is him
Great reaction and deep dive into the lyrics. You'll enjoy, I feel, reacting to more Sleep Token songs cause they are all like this. Very deep, encryptic, with some even calling back lyrically to songs on other albums. It's amazing how much thought and detail Vessel (their lead singer/songwriter) puts into these songs.
To help with lyrics most songs are him and another woman he had a relationship with and some times the song is either about the relationship or him talking to himself or the other person talking to themselves.
"He sounds like he's drowning" Then Vessel sang the lyrics "My my those eyes like fire, I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre." You couldn't have been more right, my good sir.
I`m a simple man, you react to Sleep Token (or brazillian music, cause its fucking good) and i`ll be here with my thumbs up.
Great video man, keep going!
"My my your eyes like fire
I'm a wind insect
You're a funeral pyre"
He's atracted to the intensity of her gaze like a moth to flame, but it leads to his death.
"... along both lines of a pathway higher"
The high road is a two-way street.
There are some BARS in here
The beginning makes me think of Diablo 1, but your Sephiroth comment was aqesome 😂
Sleep Token has me in a chokehold. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My two cents. Throughout Sleep Token’s discography, we hear Vessel describe a tumultuous relationship with Sleep. Sleep is almost a parasitic deity who lured Vessel in and then used him. In my opinion, Take Me Back to Eden is Vessel crying out wishing that he could go back to life before Sleep, now that he knows how toxic their relationship is.
I like the theory but I believe TMBTE refers to when he he’s the veil over his eyes. I don’t think he wants his life back, I think he wants to go back to when he was blissfully unaware of the toxicity. I think he wants to be a pawn
@@DeathStarDaddy Yes!!! It makes me think of the line from Dark Signs "And I miss the man I was the moment we left off"
@@DeathStarDaddy Exactly! He wants to be back with Sleep despite all of their toxicity. He loves them regardless. He wants them to "bite through these wires" and to "grow back your sharpest teeth". Vessel knows how dangerous on the physical and mental Sleep is for him but he doesn't care, he'll "travel far beyond the path of reason" for them. It's really sad when you think about it, because essentially, it's like he's saying that abuse is his Eden.
I just wish people that listen to ST could go back to the beginning and fully know the full story!!! Not many know it’s between him and the Diety Sleep!!! They just think it’s love stories and sad songs with him and a girl! With would also be beautiful! Don’t get me wrong!
YES
Aqua Regia
Chokehold
Vore is heavier, but the lyrics 💔
The ultimate callback song to previous albums. Speaking of which, once you have reacted to the entire TMBTE (or at least most of it (its worth it)) you should go back album by album. There are some BANGERS in previous albums. Higher Supremacy!!! Edit: one thing I dont think gets recognised is the high note vessel hits early in the song. Like damn. Mans got range
Vessels lyrics are straight poetry 🔥
You should react to a live performance of this song
That ending bit back in anger
I don’t like heavy metal, but this is turning me on to it. Any other bands you'd recommend? so far listening to I See Stars, bmth, and October Ends. OE have a new song as well - its called Damaged and its great!
I'm not very Metal Fluent as of yet so I can't recommend anything
I really enjoy the way you're looking at deeper meanings of it. Ive seem many on every single song. And they continue to evolve into a higher understanding. I see it as him singin like an angel whose been cast out of Heaven (Eden is when we became man) now having this human experience of choice and duality, it sucks, remembering that we came from and are one with the divine, being stuck here pisses you off... All we really want is to go back to Eden, with the peace love and beauty. The innocence
P.s. even watching this with you I understood the verse "I'm a winged insect you're a funeral pyre" as... Like a moth to the flame I can't resist death (the end) or the anger or the violence
One more thing... It was interesting that you brought up sephiroth. It is a main category in the kaballah and I've noticed Vessels awareness of it in many songs, also the bible, alchemy, chemistry, astrology, mysticism, mathematics, etc.
This song is literally like the final boss fight.
Tool comparison is fair, both are progressive metal bands at their core.
"This about to be a 20 minute reaction, bro"
*Looks at length of video*
That checks out.
Absolute fire 🔥
Just want to put out there that I see the "I'm a waking hell" line as either a plea for help, because of what has been lost since leaving Eden or a statement of the pain of not being in Eden, not a statement on what Eden is
To me all of sleep tokens albums have some connection to TMBTE. Sundowning(the first album) is the beginning of a love, hence songs like sugar. This Place Will Become Your Tomb (second album) I think something goes wrong in that relationship and he has a longing for the love he had, hence songs like Alkaline, where he is praising her. In TMBTE he finally realizes that what they had was not good for him hence the album as a whole. Sleep token IS a journey through what it feels like to lose someone, and I’m here for all of it
They have a surprisingly large amount of Gospel music influence (revealed by their drummer in a recent interview), so that non-R&B part that felt R&B might have been a little Gospel flair you picked up on.
If you think this sounds good in the mix on the album, you should see them live. Just as good if not better because of how organic it is. One of the best live shows I’ve ever seen.
That bit at the end "It was no accident" is from another song "Chokehold"
I recommend Chokehold and Granite!! And new October Ends!
Rain next, please. ❤
Can't wait for Bloodsport from the room below
Just pure genious
You are the real deal bro
Great reaction!!
Euclid is the next song in the Album.
To understand Euclid fully you'd have to listen 'The Night Does Not Belong To God' first.
Best option would be to listen to them Back to Back.
@tuspu8255 I also feel that When The Bough Breaks should also be listened to before Euclid. It's not as necessary as TNDNBTG, but it is also referenced in Euclid's lyrics. Stay safe 🤘 ✌️
@@brianalmeida1964Euclid references a TON of songs. Not just directly but indirectly, answering previous questions or calls, carrying on the story, etc. its a masterpiece. Also when it says just give me 5 more minutes, the song has 5 mins remaining. Absolutely awesome song
Euclid was my first Sleep Token song I heard and I don't regret it...
It fits everything without knowingly hitting every nerve in the pulses of a broken heart.
Dude, Sleep Token writes lyrics that require 3 to 5 business days to process the first time you hear it
Sleep Token is incredible, I think my new hobby is watching people react to them 😂
Quick question, have you listened to “While We Sleep” by Insomnium? I’d recommend checking it out if you have a chance.
Yesssss more sleep token
You have to get into the lore. It really helps with deciphering the lyrics
You should listen to his isolated vocals.
2:20
To me, it sounds very similar to Breaking Benjamin, but more modern. Especially for The Summoning, it’s got more metal undertones to it.
You're not the first to think this I agree as well
My two cents on the rap version of this song: (WARNING: Sleep Token lore gets graphic) I wonder if Vessel (the lead singer) is talking about how bad his life is when he wakes up which is why he wants to continue to stay sleep and be with his deity, Sleep. Because in Sleep Token lore, the only way he can connect with Sleep is by literally going to sleep. Check it out
"Well, yeah, I spit blood when I wake up
Sink porcelain stained, choking up brain matter and make-up
Just two days since the mainframe went down and I'm still messed up"
I'm wondering if he killed someone two days ago and he's been sleep for those two days? "The mainframe" going down could be a metaphor for him snapping. Is that why the sink is stained and he's "choking up brain matter and make up"? It could be the fact that he literally ate this person because in earlier Sleep Token songs, it's hinted that Vessel has Vorarephilia (An erotic desire to be consumed by , or to personally consume another person or creature) He "spits blood" when he wakes up because he hates the fact that he woke up because he doesn't want to and he also doesn't want to face the reality of what he did or how screwed up his life is. He's angry.
"Room feels like a meat freezer, I dangle in like cold cuts
Missed calls, answer phones from people I just don't trust"
Is the room cold because the person he killed is in there dead and he doesn't want the body to smell? It can be both that AND the fact that we as humans sleep better when it's cold and he wants to stay sleep for as long as he can so he can be with his deity. If it feels like a meat freezer in there, it's REALLY cold. You can tell he's been sleep the entire two days too because there's missed calls from people he doesn't trust. Those missed calls could be from people asking where he's been or asking where his partner has been because they haven't been seen or heard from in two days. If you've just committed a murder, you're not going to trust anyone that calls you.
"Mirror talk, fake love, but I'll take a pound of your flesh (This part makes me think even more that he consumed parts of the person after killing them)
Before you take a piece of my pay stub
White roses, black doves, Godmother, rise up
I need you to see me for what I have become"
Whomever this person that he killed, they were having problems. Financial problems maybe? Maybe the argument was over money and Vessel snapped and killed them? Maybe he was trying to calm himself down in the mirror, talk himself out of it? It was a "fake love" because this person only wanted him for his money?
I'm still trying to find meaning in the "White roses, black doves" part
But yes, this is part of the reason why I think he wants to stay sleep. His life literally is hell when he's awake and even though Sleep treats him like shit, it's still better than the life he has while awake, which is why his Eden is with Sleep, even though they're abusive towards him
😂 Okay. New favourite reaction channel.