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"
cut my skin, it makes me human
scorn your mind
just feel the pain
cuz it's what makes us human
it keeps us all the same
you lose your head on your chosen trip
the sight of your blood will lose your spit
and a broken heart will turn to sin
but when the wound is open
we're all the same
cut my skin, it makes me human
scorn your mind
just feel the pain
when you're lookin at pain you're lookin at truth
nothin like pain to make us all the same
i see you each day get up nine-to-five
you rush in a game of lies for need
but you never seem to recognize
you're no better or worse than me
i dare you once just to make it hurt
how many times can you race around
with the world running faster faster then...
i never expect to catch up
cut my skin, it makes me human
scorn your mind
just feel the pain
when you're lookin at pain you're lookin at truth
nothin like pain to make us all the same
ahh yeah
cut my skin, it makes me human
scorn your mind
just feel the pain
cuz it's what makes us human
it keeps us all the same
you lose your head on your chosen trip
the sight of your blood will lose your spit
and a broken heart will turn to sin
but when the wound is open
you're all the fuckin same
cut my skin it makes me human
scorn your mind well just feel the blow
cause when you're lookin at pain you're lookin at truth
nothin like pain to keep us all the same
cut my skin, it makes me human
scorn your mind
just feel the pain
cuz it's what makes us human
it keeps us all the same
scorn your mind
just feel the pain
cuz it's what makes us human
it keeps us all the same
you lose your head on your chosen trip
the sight of your blood will lose your spit
and a broken heart will turn to sin
but when the wound is open
we're all the same
cut my skin, it makes me human
scorn your mind
just feel the pain
when you're lookin at pain you're lookin at truth
nothin like pain to make us all the same
i see you each day get up nine-to-five
you rush in a game of lies for need
but you never seem to recognize
you're no better or worse than me
i dare you once just to make it hurt
how many times can you race around
with the world running faster faster then...
i never expect to catch up
cut my skin, it makes me human
scorn your mind
just feel the pain
when you're lookin at pain you're lookin at truth
nothin like pain to make us all the same
ahh yeah
cut my skin, it makes me human
scorn your mind
just feel the pain
cuz it's what makes us human
it keeps us all the same
you lose your head on your chosen trip
the sight of your blood will lose your spit
and a broken heart will turn to sin
but when the wound is open
you're all the fuckin same
cut my skin it makes me human
scorn your mind well just feel the blow
cause when you're lookin at pain you're lookin at truth
nothin like pain to keep us all the same
cut my skin, it makes me human
scorn your mind
just feel the pain
cuz it's what makes us human
it keeps us all the same
Lyrics submitted by bikiniekillgrrrl
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@Orange Morendo Very good interpretation! 25 years ago I listen to this song, but when now it hurts listening to it, our Mia died from too much pain, no one should suffer like she did! The monster who did this to her never will suffer enough...!
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