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"
We could be perfect one last night
And die like star-crossed lovers when we fight
And we can settle this affair
If you would shed your yellow take my hand
And then we'll solve the mystery of laceration gravity
This riddle of revenge please understand it has to be this way
Stand up fucking tall
Don't let them see your back
And take my fucking hand
and never be afraid again
We've only got once chance to put things at an end
And cross the patron saint of switchblade fights
You said we're not celebrities, we spark and fade, they die by threes
I'll make you understand and you can trade me for an apparition
Stand up fucking tall
Don't let them see your back
And take my fucking hand
And never -
Trust, you said
Who put the words in your head
Oh how wrong we were to think
That immortality meant never dying
Stand
Take my fucking hand
Take my fucking hand
Stand up fucking tall
Don't let them see your back
And take my fucking hand
And never be afraid again
(Ah)
Just because my hands around your throat
And die like star-crossed lovers when we fight
And we can settle this affair
If you would shed your yellow take my hand
And then we'll solve the mystery of laceration gravity
This riddle of revenge please understand it has to be this way
Stand up fucking tall
Don't let them see your back
And take my fucking hand
and never be afraid again
We've only got once chance to put things at an end
And cross the patron saint of switchblade fights
You said we're not celebrities, we spark and fade, they die by threes
I'll make you understand and you can trade me for an apparition
Stand up fucking tall
Don't let them see your back
And take my fucking hand
And never -
Trust, you said
Who put the words in your head
Oh how wrong we were to think
That immortality meant never dying
Stand
Take my fucking hand
Take my fucking hand
Stand up fucking tall
Don't let them see your back
And take my fucking hand
And never be afraid again
(Ah)
Just because my hands around your throat
Lyrics submitted by a scar in the sky, edited by weirdgirl32, SmashingDestiny
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At a concert once, Gerard said before this song, "You probably came with your best friend, or one of your best friends. I want you to turn to that Mother**, grab him by the throat and say 'Your my best f*****' friend, and I would die for you!'"
I think the second line is "DIE like star crossed lovers", not "look". :)
`THis song is amazing, the power that is poured into the chorus is incredible. I expect a lot from this band in the future. They make amazing music
yeah theyre great im gonna see them on saturday with the used an dim actually liking them more than the used
My friends and I were having a talk about what " If you would shed your yellow take my hand" means. I said that it might be in referance to how yellow use to mean scared or a wuss. So in other words in would mean to shed you fear and come with me. Man that is ROCKEN. MCR KICKS ASS
Gerard actually told me that this song was about getting stabbed in kindergarten.
It makes me fucking hyper though.
Makes me want to kick some ass.
wow. to: omgwtf. like i said WOW. your interpretation of this song really says it all. that was AMAZING. i loved it. that is exactly what i think this song is about. i couldnt have said it any better. well put.
Haven't you guys heard of those old-fashioned knife fights where they tie the hands of the two guys and then let them go at it? That's what this is. "Take my f*cking hand" ...so they can tie us and we can get this fight over with and die if necessary. It's kind of a romantic notion, like a duel.
It's "laceration clarity". neverxsavexme explained this a bit on page 4.
I think it's about lovers. Mysterious, full of energy, meaningfull, emotional. Just beautiful
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