"Pretelethal"

"Pretelethal" is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the first track on their 2013 album The Afterman: Descension. A demo version of the song was released on The Afterman: Descension (Big Beige Demos) album.

Lyrics
[Verse 1] As I drift away with the dust The light consumes the dark recluse No time to waste in this mess I will retreat, no sins confessed How did we get so lost? Away...

[Chorus] Who will repair this broken heart? Who will repair this broken heart?

[Verse 2] This world will miss none of us The sick we cure, the bad we just

[Chorus] Who will repair this broken heart? Who will repair this broken heart?

Story Context
"" Picking up where Part One ended, this track brings us back to Sirius and Evagria. Evagria is now being bombarded by all the other souls who desperately want to be free of the Keywork. This is depicted clearly in the first verse with "We drift away with the dust / The light consumes the dark recluse / No time to waste in this mess / I will retreat, no sin confessed."

Evagria knows she doesn't have much strength left, and so she calls out desperately, "Who will repair this broken heart?"

The second verse is the souls, again, thinking selfishly and arrogantly. But again, Evagria calls out.

Background
Sanchez said that this track is "an exploration of sound." He mostly wanted to toy around with a bunch of new gadgets he'd gotten and spent hours playing with various sounds. The song he'd come up with was really long, but he ended up with this shorter track. He said, "I decided to scale back to just one simple statement: Who will repair this broken heart? When someone is in pain, that's all they can think about. It's all-consuming. I didn't want to take away the strength of that sentiment"

Trivia

 * Eppard played Keyboard for this track, Sanchez played Electric Piano, & John Medeski played the Synthesizers.
 * "Pretelethal" is not a word in the dictionary, but we can infer its meaning; "pre" meaning before, "tele" meaning informing, communicating, or indicating, and "thal" indicating an entity (no pun intended). So the meaning of the title is something like, "what happened before the talebearer," which is pretty accurate, as Evagria would be the talebearer, and what came before is the assault by the other, hostile souls.