What does Always mean?

Saliva: Always Meaning

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Always Lyrics

I hear, a voice say "Don't be so blind"
It's telling me all of these things
That you would probably hide!
Am I your one and only desire?
Am I the reason you breathe,
Or am I the reason you cry?

Always, always, always,
Always, always,...

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  1. anonymous
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     Apr 4th 2022 !⃝

    I have been in a relationship that. Imhealing now.guy stole from we loved.he was messed up.he did so much drugs.and he always drama and jailbird. I thought change him.I loved but hated for crap threw.& then he left one day

  2. anonymous
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     Sep 24th 2016 !⃝

    The songwriter said that it was his interpretation of domestic abuse. As said in an interview with Saliva frontman Josey Scott:

    The song describes a dysfunctional relationship worsened by domestic abuse. Scott based his lyrics on someone he knew. "My girlfriend's sister Christie went through something pretty nasty with a young man she was involved with," he explained. "I just took it from her life and applied it to mine."

    (Reference: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=33991)

    I'm not sure if it's told from a man or a woman's perspective, but either way fits, really. Everyone gets caught up on the lyric "does it make you feel more like a man", and honestly, that could fit a man OR a woman. The easiest interpretation, if you stick with the songwriter's intent, is that it's a woman who has finally had enough from her abuser.

    Personally, I always had a different interpretation of the part:

    "I see, the blood all over your hands
    Does it make you feel, more like a man
    Was it all, just a part of your plan
    This pistol's shakin' in my hands
    And all I hear is the sound"

    My interpretation, keeping in line with the domestic abuse line, is that the victim/survivor is on their way out the door. The abuser has a gun, and is threatening them, but the victim/survivor has had enough by this point, and there is a struggle as they fight over the weapon. It discharges, and the abuser ended up shot, and relinquishes the weapon in disbelief. I see him/her stumbling backward, blood on their hands, while the victim/survivor now has the pistol, and their hands are shaking as they stare in shock at what just unfolded.

    Regardless, this is an amazing song. Very intense!

  3. anonymous
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     Aug 3rd 2016 !⃝

    It's about a women in an abusive relationship I believe the lead singer had came out and said it before

  4. anonymous
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     Sep 22nd 2015 !⃝

    I always thought the song was about being addicted to crack and feening out from not having it.I think he is battling with himself because he needs more. The first part the voice in his head is telling him he doesn't need it that its not worth doing and he is asking himself if it is really making him happy because when you are high you feel amazing bit the come down when your off of it makes you feel like shit physically and mentally. And the cores he is talking about the crack and how he feels it actually makes a cracking sound when you smoke it and the taste and sounds it makes are part of the addiction. The whole process of getting high becomes almost ritual and you get excited when you hear the cracking sound because the high is coming , and it is not a social drug you don't want to share it so it causes you to be alone. Then I think it goes on to him not really wanting it but the addiction is to strong and he ultimately gives in he is also mad that something he loves so much is fucking his life up and in the last parts I think he kills someone in order to obtain the drug and that he is talking to himself or his addiction and realizing that the moment he left the house he was already willing to do whatever to get the drug even tho he tried to convince himself he was done with it and the very end I think when the high wares off what he did fully sinks in and he finally is done with the drug because it took something so bad to make him see the hold it had. I could be wrong but that's what I think when I listen to the song I have battled with addiction and the hold crack can have on you and I've seen to many people loose them selves and all morals due to it.

  5. anonymous
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     Jan 18th 2014 !⃝

    This song, scarily fits me. Most people, think its about schizophrenia, or an abusive relationship. But, to me I always found it about a child, feeling used. I ALWAYS feel like this song fits me. The "I hear a voice say "don't be so blind," its tellin' me all these things that you would probably hide", fit what I think of my mother, because she's kept a few secrets from me, and I cannot trust her. I lover her, and I hate her at the same time. Same goes with my dad and older sister. I feel like they use me, hence I can't tell if they really love me, or not. "I left my head around your heart, WHY WOULD YOU TEAR MY WORLD APART!?!?" I can't think straight. "I see the blood all over your hands, does it make you feel more like a man?" Metaphorically, speaking, I ALWAYS feel like, everyone rips my heart out. To make them "feel like a man" "The pistol's shakin in my hands" Are me thinking of suicide, but I'm too scared. "All I can hear is the sound" Something stops me from it. So, this is my point if view.


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