23.08.2010 Trivium - Dying in your arms -

"Dying in Your Arms" is a 2005 single written by Matt Heafy. It is the eighth track on Trivium's second album Ascendancy. The Ascendancy Special Edition also includes the music video for the song, the song being performed live and the single edit of the song. It is one of the few songs on the album that uses singing instead of screaming, with the exception of a short section in the middle of the song.

"Being with someone can be like an addiction. Gradually, you can't stand to be without them, everything you once enjoyed- you no longer care about, you become weak and dependent. Like a heroin addiction - you think you can live without it, but you're gradually dying inside and out. Break free." - Matt Heafy 

The audio track on the video is the single edit of the song, featuring differences from the album version such as 3:05 length (as opposed to 2:52 on the album), an added piano introduction, metalcore screaming vocals being replaced with clean vocals, increased vocal volume, and an audible tambourine during the chorus.

And the lyrics...

I'm wearing thin, wearing out, becoming weak
Holding hands with this rope
She's my self-destructive,
bleeding disease
The things that makes it hard to breathe
But if I shoved you far away
This addict just starved again, asphyxiated.

[Chorus]
And now I see it's you
That's tearing me (ensnaring me)
This is me dying in your arms,
I cut you out, now set me free

Lynched high above what used to be
In her gallows built for me
So I escaped cut this noose around my
neck, Let god be free to see the things you blinded me.
And I shoved you far away.
Now I live the life I dreamed of.
You're dead to me.

[Chorus]
And now I see it's you
That's tearing me (ensnaring me)
This is me dying in your arms,
I cut you out, now set me free

And now I see it's you
That's tearing me (ensnaring me)
This is me dying in your arms,
I cut you out, now set me free

You poisoned my life
So I take this knife
And I cut you out
Cut you out

[Solo]

And now I see it's you
That's tearing me (ensnaring me)
This is me dying in your arms,
I cut you out, now set me free

And now I see it's you
That's tearing me (ensnaring me)
This is me dying in your arms,
I cut you out, now set me free

set me free

set me free

set me free

set me free

set me free

set me free

Till next time...