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"
If I thought I knew the reason
Why I've gone and fallen
In love with you
You're the one thing I believe in
And I know quite well
What I've got to do
First you say it's okay
Then you say there's no way
Then I'm making love to you
You're the one thing I believe in
And I know it's time 'cause I've
Got to tell you
My love is like a flower
Daisies are always free
Pulling out the petals
I wonder if you love me
Love me
Love
Love me, love me
If I thought I knew the reason
Why I've gone and fallen in love with you
You're the one thing I believe in
And I know it's time because I've got to tell you
First you say it's okay
Then you say there's no way
Then I'm making love to you
You're the one thing I believe in
And I'll get my way
Or I'm going to kill you
Why I've gone and fallen
In love with you
You're the one thing I believe in
And I know quite well
What I've got to do
First you say it's okay
Then you say there's no way
Then I'm making love to you
You're the one thing I believe in
And I know it's time 'cause I've
Got to tell you
My love is like a flower
Daisies are always free
Pulling out the petals
I wonder if you love me
Love me
Love
Love me, love me
If I thought I knew the reason
Why I've gone and fallen in love with you
You're the one thing I believe in
And I know it's time because I've got to tell you
First you say it's okay
Then you say there's no way
Then I'm making love to you
You're the one thing I believe in
And I'll get my way
Or I'm going to kill you
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Anton said at a show I just attended, the song is about someone who will "say I love you, I love you, I love you to your face but then just kill you when they used up all your worth". Quite literally right in the lyrics lol.
person with unexamined consent and entitlement issues. disturbing narrative in such an ear candy song
'tis a grand tune.
its about love in all its confusion. also at the end he demostrates the point that man always kills what he loves the most
So sexy...
extremely sexy... [:
its not that man always kills what he loves most, he says if he cant have it...hes going to kill her so none can. a pretty common way of thinking for our kind, not necassarily on that scale.
holy shit this song is amazing.
yeah, it definitely puts me in that frame of mind.
amazing song.. Anton is so sexy when he sing it..