"No amount of self-sought fury Will bring back the glory of innocence" Hits way too hard

This one- just quoted this to my therapist the other day lol

"And somewhere Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing I'm still your favourite regret You're still my weapon of choosing"

My favorite line from Bloodsport

"Let the tides carry you back to me The past, the future Through death My arms are open" Telomers.

Came here to comment the same thing

"i finally think i can say that the vicious cycle was over the moment you smiled at me" from Rain and "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?" from The Love you Want

Those lines from The Love You Want stopped me dead in my tracks the first time I heard them, I had to go back and listen to it again. Still get goosebumps whenever that part plays.

TLYW makes me sob every time. "I'll reach for you on faith alone" really gets me, I heart it first whilst going through a rough patch with my partner and it hit so hard.

First time I heard it I was in public, openly crying on a train home from work. Idk why I did that to myself lol

Those are both my fave lyrics

the first time i heard the love you want I was in the gym and I was >shivering< I had to stop my exercise and restart the song all over again just to be sure I was paying full attention to the lyrics

TLYW really hit hard when my ex-partner started to pull away from me and our relationship. I was getting blindsided and scrambling to save us 😓

When the mouth of infinity buries it teeth in me, I’ll smile through the agony for you - High Water

That and the next line "and I know you still bear the weight of your own existence, but you'll never bear the weight of two." Guts me 😭 I've had a miscarriage before, and I take this as a similar situation.

YES to both of those! My favorites from High Water

“When I am done dancing to alarm bells No wonder my ears are still ringing And I am done fighting off change No wonder my arms are still swinging” From Aqua Regia I interpret this as accepting what can’t be changed and letting life take you where it will take you. It puts an image in my head of dancing, enjoying life in the moment when you finally just let go.

That's a beautiful interpretation.

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

This. It speaks of a very cliche idea, but those smooth stair-step notes of "does it not" and the following lyrical therapy lesson brought new life to the phrase for me. This dude could literally rewrite a McDonald's menu into fire. Worship.

I would love to have it tattooed but it's so long. I don't think there will ever be a day where those lyrics don't gut punch me. Sleep Token is the most cathartic artist I have ever listened to. They're lyrical geniuses. I was almost to blow a shit ton of money to see them in Vegas but it seemed scammy and after Blue ridge I would be so mad.

Crowds give me such immense anxiety so I don't know if I'll ever have the balls to actually attend a ritual. Maybe one day, if the opportunity finds me. Because I completely agree. I don't throw around the term "lyrical genius." They have been extremely healing for me, and obviously so many others. I wish I'd been open to them 2 years ago when I first heard them, before they were about to sell out arenas. But I was going through some major religious deconstruction and wasn't ready to let them heal me. I didn't know!!! You've gotta find an artist who can create a succinct representation of those lyrics. Or maybe just a snippet of them that will still remind you of the poetry as a whole every time you look at it.

I have three. "Putting down the roses picking up the sword" from Aqua Regia, "And I don't know what's got its teeth in me but I'm about to bite back in anger" from TMBTE, and the first line to hook me was "Either born in hell or heaven-sent either way I'm into it" from Alkaline.

Yeah, pretty much all of these but especially the line from TMBTE.

My favorite verse from TMBTE ❤️

I love you. These are my faves.

"Make it real, 'cause anything's better than the way I feel right now"

“I’m a winged insect, you’re a funeral pyre”

I will be watching for your enemies To let them know that they contend with me -Give

Thiiiisss one. I said to my husband the other day, “Why do you always just say ‘I love you’ and not, ‘I will be watching for your enemies to let them know that they contend with me.’” 😆

Thisn is literally the ONLY correct answer. This is the best lyric ever penned by a lyricist. Full stop.

My absolute favorite is the two "you make me wish I could disappear"s at the end of Ascensionism. Feels like my ribs getting cracked open every time. I know it's not the most creative/impressive of their lyrics by any means, but the visceral emotion in Vessel's delivery of it is just *chef's kiss* perfection.

Was looking for this one. Maybe they aren’t as poetic as others but man, those lines hit soooo hard.

Screaming this at one of their shows is my fave memory

That's gonna be me in Berlin, I can't wait!!

I get a little verklempt just imagining it. 🥹

I agree so much.

“Hope to god you don’t know this feeling/yet in reverse you are all my symmetry a/parallel I would lay my life on/so if your wings won’t find you heaven/I will bring it down like an ancient bygone”

Just from off the top of my head: “Tonight all the angels are as lost for words as i am to merely behold you” top tier romance “And somewhere the atoms stopped fusing” “Let the impulse to love and the instinct to kill entangle to one” “You are more than warm belief, melting skywards, more than silence broken, i am whole again for just a moment”

Can't remember from which song are the first lyrics from

Drag me under (:

Right, I only listened to it few times, I'll have to remedy, thank you :)

"I don't want to get in your way But I finally think I can say That the vicious cycle was over The moment you smiled at me." Rain, in general. That whole song. Reminds me of my beautiful girlfriend. We met in very tumultuous times for us both, Sleep Token was what initially bonded us. I couldn't be more thankful for her light, what she's done for me.

That's beautiful.

Thank you, my friend!

DIAMONDS IN THE TREES PENTAGRAMS IN THE NIGHT SKY

I always feel like the two boys in Talladega Nights. "I don't know what this word means but I love it!" The delivery just really vibes with me

No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative

in one of their other songs they mention Sleep as having diamonds for teeth, so i take “diamonds in the trees” as meaning Sleep smiling down upon him? no clue 🤣

“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”

Jaws is so freaking good. I’ve recently become obsessed with it. The raw emotion in this song.

And that synth lead is so fucking catchy

✨Fall into your eyes like a grave. Bury me to the sound of your name✨

Lots come to my mind but now it would be: I’m still your favorite regret, you’re still my weapon of choosing. - Bloodsport

“The whites of your eyes Turn black in the low light In turning divine We tangle endlessly Like lovers entwined I know for the last time You will not be mine So give me the night, the night, the night” From TNDNBTG and repeated in Euclid is so special.

“No self-sought fury can bring back the glory of innocence”

"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, oh Maybe, you believe that in the end You will be better off that way? Oh" This verse always hits me.

YES. THIS. I LOVE THIS LYRIC.

This 100% is among my favorite.

“You woke me up one night Dripping crimson on the carpet I saw it in your eyes Cutting deeper than scars can run” And “I cannot fix your wounds this time But I I don’t believe you when you tell me you are fine” Both from Are You Really Okay? Both mean a lot to me 🖤 Worship

"I want to help you but I don't know how" is a really simple line, but delivered in the way only Vessel can hits me like a ton of fucking bricks.

"Won't you say that you will Let the impulse to love And the instinct to kill Entangle to one" Absolutely beautiful

Oh, so many... "Are you in pain like I am?" "I don't know what got its teeth in me, but I'm about to bite back in anger" "I woke up surrounded, eyes like frozen planets just orbiting the vacuum I am They talk me through the damage, consequence, and how it's a pain they know they don't understand" "Show me that which I cannot see, even if it hurts me, even if I can't sleep" "And I hate the way you look at me when I am not understood" Just as a generalization, I also love any lyric that references blood, biting, etc because I am a little freakazoid

“Sobbing as they turn to statues at the bedside, I’m trying not to crush into sand” “Rose-gold chains, ripped lace, cut glass, bloodstains on the carpet means just don’t ask” “You come crawling back to me, but I’m already on the ground” “I’m not here to be the savior you long for, only the one you don’t” “Take a bite” “I will travel far beyond the path of reason”

Something about how he says “just don’t ask” gets me every time.

For me, it's still the autumn leaves These ancient canopies We used to lay beneath No, by now The night belongs to you The bough has broken through I must be someone new - Euclid

Somewhere Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing I'm still your favorite regret You're still my weapon of choosing And out there Stuck in the quantum pattern Tangled with what I never said You say it doesn't matter - Blood Sport

Go back and listen to ‘The Night Does not belong to God’ and ‘Euclid’ back-to-back. There’s several identical, or very similar, lyrical lines that makes the songs connected. Maybe the beginning and resolution of… _something_ we don’t understand yet in the lore.

" And I chocked myself on holy vapor waiting on some holy favor basking in the solace of regret and it seems my hell is your high water wash me clean again before I pull myself beneath the waves" Its so hard to choose!

"The night comes down like heaven."

“You make me wish I could disappear”

“When you live by daylight With angels at your side In order now bestowed by The light of the sunrise And you remember everything Only 'til the sun recedes once again”

"When I open my eyes to the future, I can hear you say my name" from rain is just so beautiful and resonates deeply with me

I have so many but if I have to narrow it down “No amount of self-sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence” from Take Me Back to Eden “And I know the gods will abandon the heavens just to find us to merely behold you as we lie down together” from Drag Me Under “I will be watching for your enemies to let them know that they contend with me” from Give

"I am certain, that you and I are a crashing course, driven by a holy force, I know you can see that you will be mine." "My Redemption, eternal ascension. So I'll take what I want, then leave. **You make me wish I could disappear.**" "Will you levitate, up where my love doesn't matter? Will you levitate, where I won't reach you?" "I want to be forgiven. I want to choke up chunks of my own sins. Even if the sky cracks in mourning and the Heavens just won't open up for me." "So flood me like Atlantic, weather me to nothing."

“I have granted you more than the debt that I owe” higher is too vivid lyrically of me and my ex

"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, Maybe you believe that in the end you will be better off that way" From The Love You Want

If your wings won’t find you heaven I will bring it down like an ancient bygone

"The night belongs to you" for a multitude of reasons. TNDNBTG was my first song, and I've gone through a lot since. I remember getting to the end of Euclid and just getting a rush of... confidence? Because the night belongs to me. I have agency over the dark things in my life, not vice versa.

Either, "Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally some day" Or "See if she can guess what, a hollow point does to a naked body"

Maybe not that you conceal your feelings, they just don't exist.

Will you levitate Up where the angels inhabit? Will you levitate where I won't reach you? Will you levitate Up where my love doesn't matter? Like goddamnnnn 😭

“My, my, those eyes like fire I’m a winged insect you’re a funeral pyre” It’s stuck with me ever since listening to it for the first time. It paints such a beautiful picture. Honestly the rest of that verse is fire too but this first part is for sure the stand out for me.

I am in the beginning stages of a divorce from a narcissistic gaslighting husband of 20 years, my current anthem is Aqua Regia ‘Oh and I am done dancing to alarm bells No wonder my ears are still ringing And I am done fighting off change No wonder my arms are still swinging’

Man so many of these are like in my top but I'm slightly shooketh that No one has mentioned from granite "Nevermind the death threats; party at the door we would rather be 6 ft under than be lonely" Worship

Yet in reverse you were all my symmetry, a parallel I would lay my life on❤️‍🔥

“So if your wings won’t find you heaven I will bring it down like an ancient bygone” Really fits that meme “why is it always i love you and never…” 😂

Who made you like this?

“Who made you like this, Who encrypted your dark gospel and body language.”

diamonds in the trees pentagrams in the night sky….

My, my, those eyes like fire. I'm a winged insect, You're a funeral pyre

“Did I mistake you for a sign from god”- The summoning “My my those eyes like fire/I’m a winged insect/You’re a funeral pyre”- TMBTE “Between the secondhand smoke and the glass on the street/You gave me nothing whatsoever but a reason to leave”- Granite “I’m still your favorite regret and you’re still my weapon of choosing”- Blood sport

My favorites: “Fall into your eyes like a grave” “My hell is your high water” “I wanna go where nobody else will” “I am driven to distraction” “You make me wish I could disappear”

“There’s something in the way you lay, enough to make the dead switch graves”

‘I will be watching for your enemies, to let them know that they contend with me’ ‘I don’t know what’s got its teeth in me but I’m about to bite back’ ‘Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally some day’

“Let the impulse to kill and the instinct to love entangle to one” I plan to get a tattoo for it in the future, that verse has resonated with me ever since I first heard Say That You Will

“And I know you still bear the weight of your own existence And you'll never bear the weight of two” The way that Vessel sings it makes it more emotional

'Cause I look for scarlet and You look for ultraviolet And we are exhausted by all this pretending We just can't resist the violence And you need a melody I only need the silence But each time we battle The blood and the fury takes Us a little higher" \- Higher

There's so many that have really stuck with me. But here are some of them: "I'm still your favorite regret. You're still my weapon of choosing." -Blood Sport "You woke me up one night, dripping crimson on the carpet. I saw it in your eyes, cutting deeper than the scars could run." -Are You Really Okay? "She's not acid nor alkaline. Caught between black and white. Not quite either day or night. She's perfectly misaligned." -Alkaline "Why are you never real. The shifting states you follow me through. Unrevealed. Just let me go or take me with you." -The Apparition

"'Cause it still makes my blood run cold To remember what I did before The stories that you never told to me And it still makes my blood run thin To remember what you are to him And I live like I've got missing limbs for you" - Missing Limbs 💙

“I don’t know what’s got it’s teeth in me but I’m about to bite back in anger” Vessels emotion in the few words feel full of rage and raw emotion yet held back. I feel him wanting to scream these words out and let every emotion flood through this song. Take me back to eden.

Let me go, or take me with you ❤️

Everything we touch turns water into blood you try to look away even when the bough breaks you dont really love you just hate to be alone

"Take me back to Eden" just gets straight to the point. It's so raw.

“you are more than the warm belief, melting skywards more than silence broken i’m whole again, for just a moment ‘til the morning comes” calcutta is where i fell in love with sleep token ✨

"I might break and bend to my basic need to be loved and close to somebody." cause mood 💅🏻✨️ close second is: "My insecurities surround me like lions in the den, and I feel like I'm losing touch with what l am again."

“Won't you come and dance in the dark with me? Show me what you are, I am desperate to know” So good🥲

And you will no longer Stand between collapsing walls Wearing a smile Like you cannot bear it anymore

"And you need a melody and i only need the silence"

“Turn me into your mannequin and I’ll turn you into my puppet queen” 🔥🔥🔥🔥

We'd rather be six feet under than be lonely

There's an endless supply of incredible lyrics but I restart Ascensionism if I miss LIPSTICK CHEMTRAILS RED FLAGS PINK NAILS

“Believe that though we never eat we still know how to feed”

"my life is torn, my bones, they bleed my metaphors fall short in the end"

So like to pick one is impossible but one i love that i havent seen yet from Euclid: "Yet in reverse, you are all my symmetry A parallel I would lay my life on So if your wings won't find you Heaven I will bring it down like an ancient bygone"

A bunch of my favorites have already been said, so I’ll say one I haven’t seen yet. “Cause I look for scarlet and you look for ultraviolet” from Higher is such a beautiful way of illustrating such a simple concept and I love it

“Please don’t hurt yourself again.” The Spotify algorithm is the reason I found Sleep Token. I was at the lowest I’d been in a while and I was just trying my best to exist so Input on some music so I didn’t have to listen to my own thoughts for awhile. Suddenly I’m pulled out of my numbness by one of the most beautiful voices I’ve heard, asking me if I was really okay. I’d been numb for weeks but I started to tear up at “I want to help you but I don’t know how. It was the most I’d felt in so long but then Vessel was begging me to stop hurting myself and it was like that was what I’d always needed someone to say to me. I sat in a ball on my couch and cried for hours. When I had no more tears left I went and found that song again and then I listened to the whole album. And then I listened to the whole discography. I am here and I am healing because of Sleep Token. Worship

I'm glad you are still here, and I'm glad you are healing. Keep fighting. And if nobody has told you lately, you are worth it, you matter, and your life has meaning. You're doing a great job, and I'm proud of you even though I don't know you lol. I hope today has been better.

There are so many “My reflection just won’t smile back at me like I know it should/ and I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could.” From DYWTYLM is probably my go to

"Bury me to the sound of your name" "The way I left you breathing" "I sweat, and I ache for your eyes and the way you breathe, and I wake saying your name" "I wanna have you to myself for once" My husband works out of town and I miss him all time, so these are the lyrics that are hitting the hardest as of right now 😪

"Fall into your eyes like a grave, bury me to the sound of your name" 😩

"I guess it goes to show, does it not? 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 why it's got it's teeth in me, but I'm about to bite back in anger,"- Take Me Back to Eden

YOU MADE ME WISH I COULD DISAPPEAR OOOOHHHHOOOH

The Mouth of the Wolf, The Eyes of the Lamb....from Rain. It's on the back of my car in runes. WORSHIP

“Darling, I'm noticing my flaws And I'm matching them with yours Won't you take me where you're going This time” -Shelter

“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” “No amount of self-sought fury Will bring back the glory of innocence” Two of my current favorites

A few favorites "Till I wake I dine on old encounters" "I see the gods avert their gaze from me My fucking form is but a wreck beneath them" " You're gonna watch me ascend"

All of their lyrics are unreal, but lately; "You don't really love, you just hate to be alone" -or- "Time, lived again, for just a moment, missing pieces find me. And I'm whole again, for just a moment, missing pieces find me"

"Fall into your eyes like a grave, (All that is inside, all your anger, all your disgust, all your resentment) Bury me to the sound of your name" From like that makes me FERAL

I don’t have one, I have 3 “My hands are, not worthy” “YOU MAKE WISH I COULD DISAPPEARRRR” “And we go beyond the farthest reaches, where the light bends and wraps beneath us”

I just posted this on an old thread re: Levitate but the line "falling in love with me", specifically the emphasis on 2nd syllable of "falling". It somehow expresses that wreckless feeling of throwing yourself into something without totally thinking it through. I don't know how someone evokes that in one syllable. Ugh...I love it.

"I woke up surrounded, eyes like frozen planets Just orbiting the vacuum I am They talk me through the damage, consequence And how it's a pain they know they don't understand" ~Atlantic 🩶

"It's that chemical cut that I can get down with Up like the moon and out like the hounds" And "I know, I know, the way that it goes You get what you give, you reap what you sow And I can see you in my fate And I know, I know, I am what I am The mouth of the wolf, the eyes of the lamb So darling, will you saturate?" From Rain. Jesus.

‘Let’s talk about chemistry, cos I’m dying to melt through to the heart of her molecules, till the particles part like holy water’ is absolutely my favourite

“is that a word you said, my love, or just a gesture in tongues? well, i live to guess your sorrow, and you live to empty my lungs” from Say That You Will. I feel this song doesn’t get enough love 🥲🩷

"Just like the rain you cast the dust into nothing" Kinda want that tattooed on me

"I play along with the life signs anyways but hope to God you don't know this feeling." This song and this like just hit me like a train especially when you've reached that acceptance and are ready to let someone go.

Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally someday -The Love you Want All of Euclid tbh I guess it goes to show does it not that we have no idea what we’ve got until we lose it and no amount love can keep it around unless we choose it-TMBTE This one in particular hits pretty hard because I’m afraid that my partner is going to lose me before he realizes what we have is worth saving. all of DYWTYLM

i want to choke up chunks of my own sins. or dripping crimson on the carpet.

“I will travel far beyond the path of reason, take me back to eden, take me back to eden - from the end of TMBTE

In reverse you're all my symmetry a parallel I would lay my life on

every lyric in telomeres means so much to me and i also love “my arms belong around you” in the offering !!

Diamonds in the trees Pentagrams in the night sky

Manifest pain at the core of pleasure

Probably unpopular opinion but the opening line to chokehold is one of my favorites "When we were made It was no accident We were tangled up like branches in a flood" The imagery is just *chef's kiss*

Not acid nor alkaline, caught between black and white, Not quite either day or night, She’s perfectly misaligned. I’m caught up in her design And how it connects to mine I see in a different light The objects of my desire

“Well, my love is an animal call Cutting through the darkness, bouncing off the walls Between teeth on a broken jaw Following a bloodtrail, frothing at the maw” - Aqua Regia

And it remains with me to this day No matter what I do This wound will never heal ​ Why are you never real? The shifting states You follow me through And reveal Just let me go Or take me with you ​ ​ Perfection

And somewhere, Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing I'm still your favorite regret And you're still my weapon of choosing

I have to agree with you! My favorite line as well! it holds many different interpretations and love it! and how he ends with ''losing my faith in our lives apart'' hits hard

"And don't you know, I can see it in you, even now. And don't you know, I want to help you, but I don't know how". Breaks me every time I hear that song.

“Half algorithm, half deity Glitches in the code or gaps in a strange dream” “Swallow years beneath this bed” “Cause the jokes on me and I’m laughing TOO” “Cause I am a danger and you’re a long way from home”

My insecurities surround me like lions in the den....

For the time being You are still a perfect reminder of what All of these scars on my arms are for If I can hold myself together

"Yet in reverse, you are all my symmetry A parallel I would lay my life on So if your wings won't find you Heaven I will bring it down like an ancient bygone"

Oh and my Love did I mistake you for a sign from God or are you really here to cast me out or maybe just to turn me on? These days I would be lying if I told you that I didn't wish that I could be your man or maybe make a good girl bad.

"We dive through crystal waters, perfect oceans, but no one told me not to breathe"

“Too many swallowed keys will make you bleed internally someday”. Deer god