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"
A nation built on sweat
A nation built on blood
A nation built on dreams
Before the tongues are mute
Before they hide the truth
We'll be the ones who speak
A nation, a nation
A struggle, a struggle
A weapon, a weapon
With our music
One mantra, one mantra
One prayer, one prayer
One belief, one belief
All gods
We see without our eyes
We walk without a path
We fight with unity
Search for a better way
Change what's been done before
Make our own history
Rise up, rise up
Resistance won't be stopped
Rise up, rise up
Sepulnation
Rise, rise
Corruption undisguised
Rise, rise
Sepulnation
Confronting with our minds
Destroying all the lies
Unmasked by purity
Burning the eyes of greed
No fear, no disbelief
Our faith is your misery
A nation, a nation
A struggle, a struggle
A weapon, a weapon
Our music
One mantra, one mantra
One prayer, one prayer
One belief, one belief
All gods
Rise up, rise up
Resistance won't be stopped
Rise up, rise up
Sepulnation
Rise, rise
Corruption undisguised
Rise, rise
Sepulnation
One nation above all
Founded on our faith
One nation above all
Founded on our faith
A nation built on blood
A nation built on dreams
Before the tongues are mute
Before they hide the truth
We'll be the ones who speak
A nation, a nation
A struggle, a struggle
A weapon, a weapon
With our music
One mantra, one mantra
One prayer, one prayer
One belief, one belief
All gods
We see without our eyes
We walk without a path
We fight with unity
Search for a better way
Change what's been done before
Make our own history
Rise up, rise up
Resistance won't be stopped
Rise up, rise up
Sepulnation
Rise, rise
Corruption undisguised
Rise, rise
Sepulnation
Confronting with our minds
Destroying all the lies
Unmasked by purity
Burning the eyes of greed
No fear, no disbelief
Our faith is your misery
A nation, a nation
A struggle, a struggle
A weapon, a weapon
Our music
One mantra, one mantra
One prayer, one prayer
One belief, one belief
All gods
Rise up, rise up
Resistance won't be stopped
Rise up, rise up
Sepulnation
Rise, rise
Corruption undisguised
Rise, rise
Sepulnation
One nation above all
Founded on our faith
One nation above all
Founded on our faith
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Is everybody boycotting the Sepultura songs with Derrick Green? 'Cause hardly anyone has commented any of them. This song is so fucking good and an amazing opener for an amazing album. Anyone that thinks Sep was better with Max is stupid, simply because they're too intent on their opinion to actually give it time and listen to the music. Derrick's influence on Sepultura is great, his lyrics have alot more to them and the music (not that I know if Derrick has much contribution to the music) has so much more to it, it's heavier, yet more melodic and is good enough to just be able to sit and just listen to. Anyone that wishes Max was still in Sepultura should just listen to his new band, Sepultura2 (also known as "Soulfly")
By the way, I'm not a Max hater, I think Max Cavalera is an amazing musician and a great writer/lyricalist/vocalist, it's just that he's doing so well in Soulfly, which sounds pretty much the same as Sepultura when Max was in it, and Sepultura have really evolved since he left, Derrick didn't just fill in for Max, he stepped into his place and made the vocal part of Sepultura his own, and personally I think Green has a much better voice than Max, he may not have as much a growl of a shout as Max does, but he has more of a range, and his screams are still piercing and fucking destructive.
This songs RULES! We should all rise up and join the Sepulnation! Awesome to hear messages of unity.