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"
As Trees Feel The Seasons Change
So I To Day Must Pain Again
Through Blackened Eyes I Watch
The Passing Grains Of Eight Fall By
By Northern Rites The Dawning Rays
Do All But Glimpse The One Who Knows
The Love Of Light Hast Died
And Left Her Child To Fend For Life Alone
I Rise
From My Own Fall
Unborn Upon This World
Now Stands A Lord To All
At Dusk The Shadows Fade Away
With Light's Retreat To Darkened Numb
The Silver Mistress Starts Her Rise
And I Again Must Face The Night
A Host To One And Bane To All
The Times At Which I Feel Its Call
Imparting Impure Spilling Life
My Gauntlet Honed In Mortal Hide
Hide Fools
Your Thoughts Betray Your Life
The Hunt Excites The Blood
Which Bathes Your Flesh Upon The Tithe
Upon Their Knees, The Impotent Pray
Your God Has Come To Sate His Want
Shepherd To Man As Lupus To Flock
With Lambs The Sweetest Feast
Primal Dark- Fills The Skies
I Choose The One My Lusts To Try
The Sucking-Sex, Now Stilled In Death
While Near I Lay With Crimson Breast
In My Unrest
An Esoteric's Dream Of God
The Crucified Have Died
Through Doors Of Time My Will Revealed
The Powers That Be Are Mine
Eternity Reveals Itself
Exposed I Transverse Time And Space
Undead, Undone, Unlight Within
The Vortex Pulls Me In
I Outlast The Oldest Star
The Greatest Range Is Now To Dust
My Voice Alone To Fill The Space
Resound Me All Around
(I Am) The Eyes That Look Through Frozen Tombs
(I Am) The Hands That Claw To Reach The Moon
(I Am) The Wings That Spread Beneath The Night
(I Am) The Scarlet Lust Within
The Final Ebb Of Tide
The Fading Light Of Stars That Died
The Barren Pond Of Faith-Divine
Pass Through These Feral Eyes Of Mine
So I To Day Must Pain Again
Through Blackened Eyes I Watch
The Passing Grains Of Eight Fall By
By Northern Rites The Dawning Rays
Do All But Glimpse The One Who Knows
The Love Of Light Hast Died
And Left Her Child To Fend For Life Alone
I Rise
From My Own Fall
Unborn Upon This World
Now Stands A Lord To All
At Dusk The Shadows Fade Away
With Light's Retreat To Darkened Numb
The Silver Mistress Starts Her Rise
And I Again Must Face The Night
A Host To One And Bane To All
The Times At Which I Feel Its Call
Imparting Impure Spilling Life
My Gauntlet Honed In Mortal Hide
Hide Fools
Your Thoughts Betray Your Life
The Hunt Excites The Blood
Which Bathes Your Flesh Upon The Tithe
Upon Their Knees, The Impotent Pray
Your God Has Come To Sate His Want
Shepherd To Man As Lupus To Flock
With Lambs The Sweetest Feast
Primal Dark- Fills The Skies
I Choose The One My Lusts To Try
The Sucking-Sex, Now Stilled In Death
While Near I Lay With Crimson Breast
In My Unrest
An Esoteric's Dream Of God
The Crucified Have Died
Through Doors Of Time My Will Revealed
The Powers That Be Are Mine
Eternity Reveals Itself
Exposed I Transverse Time And Space
Undead, Undone, Unlight Within
The Vortex Pulls Me In
I Outlast The Oldest Star
The Greatest Range Is Now To Dust
My Voice Alone To Fill The Space
Resound Me All Around
(I Am) The Eyes That Look Through Frozen Tombs
(I Am) The Hands That Claw To Reach The Moon
(I Am) The Wings That Spread Beneath The Night
(I Am) The Scarlet Lust Within
The Final Ebb Of Tide
The Fading Light Of Stars That Died
The Barren Pond Of Faith-Divine
Pass Through These Feral Eyes Of Mine
Lyrics submitted by Bobo192
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