Converge - You Fail Me

you fail me with every fatal crush
you fail me with every abandoned love
you fail me with your inferno fuck me eyes
that burn as fuel for my city and its neon lights
burn bright white line fever take them all
you fail me with your new dead end dream
you fail me with your pill box fantasy
you fail me as love's greatest war
that was never worth
you were never worth fighting for
dying living dying living dying everyday
living dying living dying living everyday
you think you are a poet
in your eyes you are a star
who lives through a fantasy of rising above
you think you're a victim
but you live as a drunk
that has never sacrificed that has never loved
you think you are tragic but i know you are lost
you have walked the fault lines
and you have crossed them all
this world doesn't fight you, you fight yourself
thinking we fail you you fail yourself

Category:

Music

Tags:

• converge
• you
• fail
• me
• yourself

[surfacingtacit]

cathartic and from the heart, the way every converge song is. i really should be listening to this out of something better then laptop speakers though.

[yrmexmetanoia]

converge getting sludgy........goooooood.

[PaloAltoMetal]

This song reminds me of a few women I know. They use you a convenient part of their story, as a way to justify themselves. They hate themselves, so they do everything they can to bring you down. These reptilian cancers only care about themselves, they feed on your emotions and are egomaniacs. I think this song perfectly personifies how their words and action crawl right under your skin, how they degrade you in the name of their f-ed up vision of love.

[HappyAngerMan]

@surfacingtacit No my friend, you should get it on vinyl, and listen to it in a scratchy, loud, ravenous fashion at top speed.

[Arkasai]

Everyone do yourselves (and the band) a favor by getting their music on CD and a sick pair of open-back headphones. This music crushes your soul when it's played off a decent CD player and some Grado 325i's. Your heart will race, you might even cry uncontrollably...it's the only way to hear this music.

[Lydboelger]

Well. This song kinda turns me on.

[SaturnineXTS]

@johnnyscifi

Oh, that would be cool, I hope this interpretation's true. Their lyricist tends to victimize himself a lot, though.

[johnnyscifi]

@SaturnineXTS I dont think this song is about being rejected in love at all. I think it's about calling out self professed "victims" that only victimize themselves...Hence failing themselves with their unwillingness to better their own miserable lives.

[kgray101]

Completely wrong, but awesome metal. 

[Nicolea9000]

Sends chills up my spine every time

[blacknursery]

the first time i heard this live, especially from about 1:57 and onward, i felt like i was burning in hell and i loved it. who could dislike this song? it demolishes everything! it's pure murder!

[ArchDukeFrancis1914]

Love this song. The album cover reminds me of cutting my hand open during Hatebreed's set, after seeing Converge tear it up. Outside the venue, I met Jacob, Nate and Kurt and showed them my bleeding hand, to which they responded by pointing me towards the hospital. Great guys. I wish they would have kept my lacerations in mind when designing this cover (my saddle joint was ripped open and my palm was cut pretty bad as well).