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"
I've said this before no matter how hard I try.
I can't stop being bored while this world passes by.
So!
These people, they just have no meaning.
We've lost it all in hopeless dreaming.
Well I've just lost my grip!
Paint it black and just forget me.
This world just makes me sick!
Turn the pleading into envy.
I'm just stunned believing that nothing's to be said.
What are we achieving with the bull shit that was fed.
I don't want to hear what's said or live to see the dead.
Cause what comes to me is a resignation for me.
A resignation for me.
A resignation for me.
I've said this before no matter how hard I try.
I can't stop being bored while this world passes by.
Don't tell me what's wrong with something that we don't even understand.
My brain's just too hollow!
Some might say we're all to blame.
The outside's so unknown!
I don't want you to complain.
I can't find the answers to see through parity.
I can't find my anger.
It's a resignation for me.
A resignation for me. [Repeat: x4]
I can't stop being bored while this world passes by.
So!
These people, they just have no meaning.
We've lost it all in hopeless dreaming.
Well I've just lost my grip!
Paint it black and just forget me.
This world just makes me sick!
Turn the pleading into envy.
I'm just stunned believing that nothing's to be said.
What are we achieving with the bull shit that was fed.
I don't want to hear what's said or live to see the dead.
Cause what comes to me is a resignation for me.
A resignation for me.
A resignation for me.
I've said this before no matter how hard I try.
I can't stop being bored while this world passes by.
Don't tell me what's wrong with something that we don't even understand.
My brain's just too hollow!
Some might say we're all to blame.
The outside's so unknown!
I don't want you to complain.
I can't find the answers to see through parity.
I can't find my anger.
It's a resignation for me.
A resignation for me. [Repeat: x4]
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These lyrics are on crack. I submitted the correct ones so who knows, maybe they'll get changed. To me, this song is about him expressing his frustration at the state of the world. I believe he sees people as greedy consumers, holed up inside their homes with technology and "stuff", not being a part of the world around them.
"This world's a sinking ship, 'cause our baggage is too heavy"
I think this line means we're literally consuming ourselves to the grave.
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