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"
Are you gonna be ready to use it
If you hesitate they'll pursue it
Put the gun to the dome no question
Now the holy ghost in question
What about the banks
When they say go
Standing at the top and can't let go
Standin' can't take can't take that time
When I try sometime I can't stay high
Are you gonna be ready to use it
If you hesitate they'll pursue it
Good and evil come from above
Death peace eternal love
Bleeding at the gates and I can't come in
Courage that abates a life of sin
Sure that it holds and it holds no others
With the lies of the brave and the kid don't matter
If you hesitate they'll pursue it
Put the gun to the dome no question
Now the holy ghost in question
What about the banks
When they say go
Standing at the top and can't let go
Standin' can't take can't take that time
When I try sometime I can't stay high
Are you gonna be ready to use it
If you hesitate they'll pursue it
Good and evil come from above
Death peace eternal love
Bleeding at the gates and I can't come in
Courage that abates a life of sin
Sure that it holds and it holds no others
With the lies of the brave and the kid don't matter
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This song to me sounds like it is about suicide from a religious perspective. Those who attempt it better be ready for what's coming, as in, if they fail, it's an issue that will not escape the attention of those around for suicide is deemed as a sin by Christianity. Gun to your dome is shooting yourself in the head, dome is a known slang word for head. Bleeding at the gates = not getting into heaven, however I think in this context instead of it being because the protagonist has been denied, it is because he is staying alive in order to 'abate [his] life of sin', because in Christianity, or at least Catholicism, you will be more likely to get into heaven sinning through life than killing yourself at the end. 'The lies of the brave' and 'the kid don't matter' line is I think saying how those who can bear to live can afford to enforce such rules, for they don't suffer like the protagonist who is a kid. Religious views are imposing the need to stay alive and not commit suicide, for fear of these religious repercussions. At least that's how this song makes sense to me.