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"
Submit and reveal
What you hide and conceal
Open up and enable
Put your cards on the table
Conquer and define
Your life is on the line
Roll up and black out
No time to hesitate and doubt
Take what you've been given
Make your stand
Cause the life that you're living
May soon come to an end
Chorus #1:
"Do what you can
What you want
What you must
Feel the hunger inside
Hold on to your trust"
Confess and purge
Experience every urge
Approach and acheive
Strengthen your belief
Admit and defend
Your emotions cause they send
Out the message that is you
And that's the only thing that's true
Chorus #1
Chorus #2:
"Do what you can
What you want
What you must
Feel the hunger inside
Don't lose your trust"
Safe and secure
Never be too sure
Show and tell
Until you go to hell
Love and hate
You're destined by fate
Play and work
Enjoy your time on earth
Chorus #1
Only death is eternal
Make no mistake
What it all comes down to
Night shall overtake
Chorus #1
Chorus #2
Do what you can
(You're a beautiful child)
Do what you want
(From a beautiful land)
Do what you can
(You left a curse on me)
Do what you want
(Could you live without me?)
Do what you can
(Just one way)
Do what you want
(One last kiss)
Do what you must
(Give me the bullet)
Don't lose your trust
What you hide and conceal
Open up and enable
Put your cards on the table
Conquer and define
Your life is on the line
Roll up and black out
No time to hesitate and doubt
Take what you've been given
Make your stand
Cause the life that you're living
May soon come to an end
Chorus #1:
"Do what you can
What you want
What you must
Feel the hunger inside
Hold on to your trust"
Confess and purge
Experience every urge
Approach and acheive
Strengthen your belief
Admit and defend
Your emotions cause they send
Out the message that is you
And that's the only thing that's true
Chorus #1
Chorus #2:
"Do what you can
What you want
What you must
Feel the hunger inside
Don't lose your trust"
Safe and secure
Never be too sure
Show and tell
Until you go to hell
Love and hate
You're destined by fate
Play and work
Enjoy your time on earth
Chorus #1
Only death is eternal
Make no mistake
What it all comes down to
Night shall overtake
Chorus #1
Chorus #2
Do what you can
(You're a beautiful child)
Do what you want
(From a beautiful land)
Do what you can
(You left a curse on me)
Do what you want
(Could you live without me?)
Do what you can
(Just one way)
Do what you want
(One last kiss)
Do what you must
(Give me the bullet)
Don't lose your trust
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