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"
The Spinning of Heads
The spinning Ahead
He Said to Me
He Knew Evil
Life in Reverse
Life Out of Balance
Stupid as It Sounds
Like A Wolf Running
Cross Country-
Cross Nations-Cross Life
This Hunt is On
It Always Has Been
In Every Corner
In Every Field
A Trap Waits
Along With It's Owner
Like Someone Said
About The Hunter
As Soon as He Stops
He Becomes The Hunted
I Am the Cunning Animal
I Am The Hunter
The Life I Never Read Rise, Rise, Rise.......
The Swirling Sound of Swastikas
Like Rotor Blades of Thought
Threshing The Wheat
Out >From The Chaft
All This is a Dream
All This is a Dream
The Mother Clouds
"Si Quidem Deus Inquit"
Est Unde Mala?
Bona Vero Unde, Si Non Est?"
All This is a Dream
All Those Who Worship
The Broken Demons of The Past
Are in Love With The Dead
This is The Cross You Bear
They Worship The Dead
And Lo and Behold
This is No Mystery
When I Say That They in Turn
Become The Dead Themselves
Even Before They Die
First The Heart Dies
Then The Body Dies
Then The Soul Dies
"Si Quidem Deus Inquit"
Est Unde Mala?
Bona Vero Unde, Si Non Est?"
Ever Dead Eternally Then
Ever Dead Eternaly Then
All This is a Dream
Then They Are Caught
Eternally
In This Trinity Of
Death Death Death
There is No Escape From This
Cycle and Circle
Of Utter Desolation
The Despised By Man
The Despised By Angels
The Despised By The Gods
The Despised By The Devils
The Despised By The Satanic One Himself
All This is a Dream
"Si Quidem Deus Inquit"
Est Unde Mala?
Bona Vero Unde, Si Non Est?"
First Death Then Second Death
Then Third Death
Altogether Dead You Were
Anyway
It's A Dream......
Altogether Dead You Are
Altogether Dead You Shall Be
It's a Dream It's a Dream
From The Corner of My Mind
The Swirling Sound of The Orchestra
From The Corner of My Lips
The Words Have Already Fallen
Like Honey
From The Corner of My Eye
A Million Birds of Dreamy Image
Wing
It's a Dream , It's a Dream
It's A Dream .....
The spinning Ahead
He Said to Me
He Knew Evil
Life in Reverse
Life Out of Balance
Stupid as It Sounds
Like A Wolf Running
Cross Country-
Cross Nations-Cross Life
This Hunt is On
It Always Has Been
In Every Corner
In Every Field
A Trap Waits
Along With It's Owner
Like Someone Said
About The Hunter
As Soon as He Stops
He Becomes The Hunted
I Am the Cunning Animal
I Am The Hunter
The Life I Never Read Rise, Rise, Rise.......
The Swirling Sound of Swastikas
Like Rotor Blades of Thought
Threshing The Wheat
Out >From The Chaft
All This is a Dream
All This is a Dream
The Mother Clouds
"Si Quidem Deus Inquit"
Est Unde Mala?
Bona Vero Unde, Si Non Est?"
All This is a Dream
All Those Who Worship
The Broken Demons of The Past
Are in Love With The Dead
This is The Cross You Bear
They Worship The Dead
And Lo and Behold
This is No Mystery
When I Say That They in Turn
Become The Dead Themselves
Even Before They Die
First The Heart Dies
Then The Body Dies
Then The Soul Dies
"Si Quidem Deus Inquit"
Est Unde Mala?
Bona Vero Unde, Si Non Est?"
Ever Dead Eternally Then
Ever Dead Eternaly Then
All This is a Dream
Then They Are Caught
Eternally
In This Trinity Of
Death Death Death
There is No Escape From This
Cycle and Circle
Of Utter Desolation
The Despised By Man
The Despised By Angels
The Despised By The Gods
The Despised By The Devils
The Despised By The Satanic One Himself
All This is a Dream
"Si Quidem Deus Inquit"
Est Unde Mala?
Bona Vero Unde, Si Non Est?"
First Death Then Second Death
Then Third Death
Altogether Dead You Were
Anyway
It's A Dream......
Altogether Dead You Are
Altogether Dead You Shall Be
It's a Dream It's a Dream
From The Corner of My Mind
The Swirling Sound of The Orchestra
From The Corner of My Lips
The Words Have Already Fallen
Like Honey
From The Corner of My Eye
A Million Birds of Dreamy Image
Wing
It's a Dream , It's a Dream
It's A Dream .....
Lyrics submitted by descrovi
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