This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
when you feel the need,
to up this world and leave,
reincarnation's your scheme,
rid of these rotten repeating themes,
if you'd seen what i've seen,
had this pain that's in me,
know nobody would miss me,
switch my life and switch me,
and when you need a change,
rid the poison from your veins,
reincarnation can be arranged,
free your body from your pains,
from the pollution you're breathing,
better living through breeding,
i didn't want you to see this,
thought, the disease of the species,
do you feel like your coming down,
are you consumed by all your doubt,
if you can feel your problems mount,
reincarnate - it's your way out,
i just keep on making mistakes,
i feel this hate in my veins,
and i don't know how to behave,
you're revelling in all of my pain,
do you love to see me suffer?
do you want to see me suffer?
do you love to make me suffer?
with no love from another?
when the world makes you suffer,
just move on to another,
reincarnation sets you free,
when the world makes you fail,
just get up and set sail,
reincarnation sets you free,
and then if you fail your dreams,
leave life for a new scene,
reincarnation sets you free,
for every decision you had a doubt,
the other way can be played out,
reincarnation sets us free,
somewhere out there we can be,
you and me,
i feel like i'm being punished,
i feel like i do not want this,
i've got nothing to accomplish,
i feel like i am unwanted,
look back on things i could change,
things in my life i could rearrange,
i feel that my life's a shame,
i feel my conscious is stained,
spend life so unrelated,
life seems so overrrated,
for all this time i have related,
just to be reincarnated,
as something i'd want to be,
someone who's just not me,
life is never quite what it seems,
reincarnate me, my soul is redeemed,
i missed out on happiness,
i feel depressed, more or less,
life in death's where i feel blessed,
change the place where i feel best,
now i want you to redeem me!
I love you, please redeem me!
now i need you to redeem me!
is there any love for me?
when the world makes you suffer,
just move on to another,
reincarnation sets you free,
when the world makes you fail,
just get up and set sail,
reincarnation sets you free,
and then if you fail your dreams,
leave life for a new scene,
reincarnation sets you free,
for every decision you had a doubt,
the other way can be played out,
reincarnation sets us free,
somewhere out there we can be,
reincarnate yourself, and you'll feel the liberty!
reincarnate yourself, and you'll feel the liberty!
reincarnate myself and i feel the change in me!
reincarnate myself, i'm no longer the hated me!
reincarnate myself, a different me replaces me!
reincarnate myself, pride fills this space in me!
reincarnate ourselves, c'mon lets feel the liberty!
reincarnate ourselves, c'mon lets feel the liberty!
reincarnate our lives, conscious in our liberty!
reincarnate our lives, conscious in our liberty!
when the world makes you suffer,
just move on to another,
reincarnation sets you free,
when the world makes you fail,
just get up and set sail,
reincarnation sets you free,
and then if you fail your dreams,
leave life for a new scene,
reincarnation sets you free,
for every decision you had a doubt,
the other way can be played out,
reincarnation sets us free,
somewhere out there we can be,
you and me,
you and me,
liberty for you and me!
to up this world and leave,
reincarnation's your scheme,
rid of these rotten repeating themes,
if you'd seen what i've seen,
had this pain that's in me,
know nobody would miss me,
switch my life and switch me,
and when you need a change,
rid the poison from your veins,
reincarnation can be arranged,
free your body from your pains,
from the pollution you're breathing,
better living through breeding,
i didn't want you to see this,
thought, the disease of the species,
do you feel like your coming down,
are you consumed by all your doubt,
if you can feel your problems mount,
reincarnate - it's your way out,
i just keep on making mistakes,
i feel this hate in my veins,
and i don't know how to behave,
you're revelling in all of my pain,
do you love to see me suffer?
do you want to see me suffer?
do you love to make me suffer?
with no love from another?
when the world makes you suffer,
just move on to another,
reincarnation sets you free,
when the world makes you fail,
just get up and set sail,
reincarnation sets you free,
and then if you fail your dreams,
leave life for a new scene,
reincarnation sets you free,
for every decision you had a doubt,
the other way can be played out,
reincarnation sets us free,
somewhere out there we can be,
you and me,
i feel like i'm being punished,
i feel like i do not want this,
i've got nothing to accomplish,
i feel like i am unwanted,
look back on things i could change,
things in my life i could rearrange,
i feel that my life's a shame,
i feel my conscious is stained,
spend life so unrelated,
life seems so overrrated,
for all this time i have related,
just to be reincarnated,
as something i'd want to be,
someone who's just not me,
life is never quite what it seems,
reincarnate me, my soul is redeemed,
i missed out on happiness,
i feel depressed, more or less,
life in death's where i feel blessed,
change the place where i feel best,
now i want you to redeem me!
I love you, please redeem me!
now i need you to redeem me!
is there any love for me?
when the world makes you suffer,
just move on to another,
reincarnation sets you free,
when the world makes you fail,
just get up and set sail,
reincarnation sets you free,
and then if you fail your dreams,
leave life for a new scene,
reincarnation sets you free,
for every decision you had a doubt,
the other way can be played out,
reincarnation sets us free,
somewhere out there we can be,
reincarnate yourself, and you'll feel the liberty!
reincarnate yourself, and you'll feel the liberty!
reincarnate myself and i feel the change in me!
reincarnate myself, i'm no longer the hated me!
reincarnate myself, a different me replaces me!
reincarnate myself, pride fills this space in me!
reincarnate ourselves, c'mon lets feel the liberty!
reincarnate ourselves, c'mon lets feel the liberty!
reincarnate our lives, conscious in our liberty!
reincarnate our lives, conscious in our liberty!
when the world makes you suffer,
just move on to another,
reincarnation sets you free,
when the world makes you fail,
just get up and set sail,
reincarnation sets you free,
and then if you fail your dreams,
leave life for a new scene,
reincarnation sets you free,
for every decision you had a doubt,
the other way can be played out,
reincarnation sets us free,
somewhere out there we can be,
you and me,
you and me,
liberty for you and me!
Lyrics submitted by Rentro
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