Bloodstream

i've probably listened to this every day for a year. no lie. ha. this song is a beautiful lamentation... the speaker is in love with someone, but he's torn up by something that the other person has said. he needs the other person's touch to close "the spaces in between two minds." he's looking for affirmation that the other person is still in love with him as well, or if it's over. either way, the speaker is indelibly immersed with him/her.

what a song. i wish i could find more music by stateless.

p.s. i think that it's "words can be like knives."

He's talking about how addicted he is to someone. How even when they hurt him... He still wants to be around them. That being around them even if they hurt him is far better than not being around them at all. "Words can relay nice, they can cut you open....((( But the silence surrounds you and haunts you...)))

When he says "I think I might have inhaled you, I think you've gotten into my bloodstream... I can feel you floating in me." He's referring to the person as a drug.

"The two spaces in between two minds and all the places they have been." He's talking about how different he is from the other person, he's trying to figure out what about that person... has him so addicted.

I think its "words can be like knives, they can cut you open" and "you've gotten into my bloodstream, I can feel you FLOWING in me" maybe? makes more sense to me at least

This song is so gorgeous, the beat is incredible.

I think It should be "Words can be like knives," though.

I really like this song, it's just so dark, passionate, beautifully done and tragic. I think it's about the loss of someone he loved, but instead of it being just a break up, I think that person died. "Wake up look me in the eyes again", here he's pleading for her to not be dead, to 'wake up', because he can't accept the fact that (s)he's is dead. "Words can be like knives" I think he's remembering the last words that his love said to him, and how "they can cut you open". "The silence surrounds you , and holds you", The silence is death not letting him/her go either. "I think I might've inhaled you, I could feel you behind my eyes, You gotten into my bloodstream, I could feel you floating in me," he is referring to how much he loves her/him, it's like a drug, and that because of that he can't just let her go. Then he talks about how different they were, but he loves that much more. HE says he's "Tried to put his finger on it", he doesn't understand what part of him/her is so addictive, but it is, and that feeling is what he can't let go of.

"Wake up look me in the eyes again" could be interpretted as "[I] wake up [and I want you to] look me in the eyes again," meaning he was dreaming of someone and wanted them to appear alongside his bed when he wakes up. "I need to feel your hand upon my face" further solidifies this, as the person isn't physically with them, but he felt this in his dream and wants it to continue when he wakes.

"Words can be like knives/They can cut you open/And the silence surrounds you/And holds you" can be shown as a type of rejection in a way. He tried to make something work with someone he wanted to be closer to, but it did not exactly work out. And that rejection "cuts you open." But since they were close before, that "silence" that "surrounds you and holds you" haunts him because of how close they were, but that tension of one not wanting the other made them stop being so close.

This is further shown through the lines "I think I might've inhaled you/I could feel you behind my eyes/You gotten into my bloodstream/I could feel you floating in me." I first thought this was about a breakup, but these lines made me think it was a moment of realization that he fell in love with someone. He THINKS he might've inhaled the person. He won't stop thinking about them, they're the thought that plagues his mind and bloodstream.

The lines "The spaces in between/Two minds and all the places they have been" shows their closeness and how alike they were. So when he says, "I tried to put my finger on it," he is possibly trying to figure out why the other person doesn't feel the same if he himself feels they are compatible. "I tried to put my finger on it" can also mean he is trying to put his finger on why exactly this person is constantly crossing his mind."

TL;DR He had a moment of realization that he was falling for someone who does not feel the same about him

amazing song. yeah, lyrics should be: "words can be like knives, they can cut you open"

this song is great. the original is best. i think i may have inhaled someone, they got into my bloodstream and when i listen to this song i think of how much i miss him. i agree with rab... this song is about love..loss maybe too... beautiful.

Perfect. when you just can't get someone out of your head and can't 'put my finger on' why, or missing someone you've lost and wishing it was just a bad dream 'Wake up... look me in the eyes again'. Beautiful. I love the bit about spaces in between two minds too. Never knowing someone else entirely but wishing you could close the gap because they have enchanted you. Although it's 'Words can be like knives... they can cut you open' Why does it say 'relay nice' on all the lyric websites of this song? what does that even mean! Haha.

it's also "i CAN feel you behind my eyes", not "i could"

big big <3 for Stateless. I'm glad they're getting more exposure now, thanks to the show using their song.

For me, this emotive song describes those intense, sublime feelings that evoke inside us when we are infatuated with another person. We are literally addicted to this person as if we have "inhaled them" like some sort of drug.

I have been in a relationship with the same man for the past 5 years, but I have been really struggling with it. I love him more than words could ever describe, but sometimes I feel lonely in my relationship. Lonely and nostalgic. I crave that feeling described in this song because I have not felt that in years. It seems like I feel nothing anymore. I just wanted to feel something.

There is someone who has recently sparked those emotions and it is killing me inside. I have never felt so alive, and yet so dead at the same time. These feelings are indescribable and are eating away at me. I wish I could write out everything.

"The spaces in between two minds and all the places they have been. I try to put my finger on it..."

We are separated by a significantly large age gap. I don't understand why I feel so strongly for this person when I know what I am doing is entirely wrong, and that it is utterly unrealistic. I tell myself, "This can't be. You can't keep sleeping with him. The more you continue this, the more damage you are doing to your relationship. The more you are going to want him when you know you can never actually have him, and that you shouldn't want him to begin with. You need to stop this so things can go back to normal. You can't change what happened, but you need to fix your mistake." AND then, I can't help myself. The feeling is so alluring that you are compelled to continue. Your rational mind tells you to stop, but some other part of you is beckoned by what could possibly be.