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"
Something has woke my a thump on my roof, it was followed by crashing, more thumping ensued
I jumped out of my bed thinking I'd been invaded, heard smashing, more pounding, the sound escalated
Looked out of my window, blood dripped down thy glass, I see bodies lay twisted and mangled on grass,
I ran into thy main room and Shaggy was dead, so was Nate the Mac, Jumpsteady and ABK
Bolted out of thy house to see if it's a joke, I heard hundreds of car alarms, saw flames and smoke
And thy sky above red, I see dead bodies fallin' it's raining with corpses thy blood is appalling
Mama told me when it rains
IT POURS, but never mentioned Dead Bodies,
DEAD BODIES
Mama told me when it rains
IT POURS, La de da da de la da de
DEAD BODIES
I never seen so many,
Horrified looks on people's faces
(Thy blood is appalling)
I hope I never see what all them people saw
And put them in there places
(Thy blood is appalling),
The sun was so hot,
So hot
I was burning,
Yeah
Dead bodies lay randomly some stack in piles, on all of there faces pour horror, no smiles
I see children, and ciders, and ninjas my age, all lay naked and mangled, most withered for days,
I found safety a shelter I'm under a tree; only fingers and organs come falling on me,
I lay sleepless for days as thy raining continued, thy heat of thy sun baking corpses like food
Then it finally stopped I walk knee deep in blood, over piles of bodies threw what was my hood
It was right azt that moment thy Wraith had appeared, and thy message it left me might sound kind of weird
But take all that I'm seeing and opposite that, truth is I'm thy one dead and this is my Hell's Pit
I jumped out of my bed thinking I'd been invaded, heard smashing, more pounding, the sound escalated
Looked out of my window, blood dripped down thy glass, I see bodies lay twisted and mangled on grass,
I ran into thy main room and Shaggy was dead, so was Nate the Mac, Jumpsteady and ABK
Bolted out of thy house to see if it's a joke, I heard hundreds of car alarms, saw flames and smoke
And thy sky above red, I see dead bodies fallin' it's raining with corpses thy blood is appalling
Mama told me when it rains
IT POURS, but never mentioned Dead Bodies,
DEAD BODIES
Mama told me when it rains
IT POURS, La de da da de la da de
DEAD BODIES
I never seen so many,
Horrified looks on people's faces
(Thy blood is appalling)
I hope I never see what all them people saw
And put them in there places
(Thy blood is appalling),
The sun was so hot,
So hot
I was burning,
Yeah
Dead bodies lay randomly some stack in piles, on all of there faces pour horror, no smiles
I see children, and ciders, and ninjas my age, all lay naked and mangled, most withered for days,
I found safety a shelter I'm under a tree; only fingers and organs come falling on me,
I lay sleepless for days as thy raining continued, thy heat of thy sun baking corpses like food
Then it finally stopped I walk knee deep in blood, over piles of bodies threw what was my hood
It was right azt that moment thy Wraith had appeared, and thy message it left me might sound kind of weird
But take all that I'm seeing and opposite that, truth is I'm thy one dead and this is my Hell's Pit
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