eraser

need you
dream you
find you
taste you
fuck you
use you
scar you
break you
lose me
hate me
smash me
erase me
kill me*

*sung, but not written

eraser is like a very, very simplified story, possibly even a summary of the whole album, kind of. It's about the narrator who needs and dreams of a girl (or whatever gender you please) and finally finds her. then, because of whatever is wrong with him all he does is use, fuck, and scar her (closer, big man with a gun). In retaliation, the girl dumps him (piggy) and hates him. then, is a confusing act of violence, kills the narrator (unwritten lyrics). I really feel like there's more to this song than meets the eye.
-broken

wanting someone but not knowing how to love them. all the character knows is lust, violence, and power games, so instead of treating the person he loves the way he should, he hurts her (or him, who knows?). then he looks at what he has done and knows it was wrong of him and gets angry with himself. he realizes that he doesn't know how to treat people, how to love. he wishes that he did, but sees that it is too late. so he turns all of the violence inward. "if i can't get rid of this hatred inside me, at least i can use it to punish myself for its being there."
-alexa

My following statement is explaining eraser and a warm place as one.I think that a warm place is about finding just that one thing that is right in your life in contrast to what previous songs are talking about (violence, religion, hate, etc.) It's about expanding on that one thing till it almost eliminates the other elements... but the "bandage" is only temperary... you realize that you can't live just by drowning things out... you need to cope with them. this explains why it is followed by eraser, realizing that your life is "wrong", so you *try* to take it out on someone else (need you, dream you, find you, taste you, fuck you, use you, scar you, break you) but realize that you are still the perpetrator (lose me, hate me, smash me, erase me, kill me)
-ryan

Although it is a song of short phrases to read between the lines suggests a very violent sexual relationship ("need you dream you find you taste you fuck you.") Another song of domination ("use you scar you break you.") The ending could mean that after sexual gratification there were feelings of guilt and self-hatred ("lose me hate me smash me erase me.")
-crystal