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 they feed the war machine and pull the strings behind the scenes
With a bloated sense of supremacy
Blinded by the preconceived distorted way to be perceived
It's what believed by your enemy
Hold on to something here come the rains
This damn is about to break
Hold on to nothing self-contained
How much more can you take
Might is right and though is wrong it's along road nowhere
Enjoy the ride with blinders on
Your government is in control they'll keep you safe inside your homes
Board your windows lock your doors let freedom ring
Hold on to something here come the rains
This damn is about to break
Hold on to nothing self-contained
How much more can you take
Before you break
Let freedom ring
Unto the dawn of darkness glistening
Faithless savior murder me
Feed me to failure disbelief
What does it take everything I could want believe
Feed me to failure faithless savior murder me
Finish me feed me to failure murder me
Finish me what does it take to stop me
Finish me nothing could make me not believe
Won't let this world get me finish me
I'll never live your life for me unto the dawn
Unto the dawn of darkness
Unto the dawn glistening
Feed me to failure finish me
Feed me to failure murder me
Unto the dawn of darkness finish me
Finish me unto the dawn murder me
Caught in the wave of the world around me
And in this state I'm sure it could drowned me
Will I ever learn the way everywhere I turn today
Something tells me runaway something burns inside me
Even though I've pressed erase
Feel it slowly fade away
Thoughts that go on endlessly
How much longer can I wait
What does it take what does it take
Caught in the wave of the world around me
And this state I'm sure it could drowned me
Caught in the wave of the world around me
And this state I'm sure it could drowned me
What does it take what does it take
Will I ever learn the way everywhere I turn today
Something tells me runaway something burns inside me
Even though I've pressed erase
Feel it slowly fade away
Thoughts that go on endlessly
How much longer can we wait
Caught in the wave of the world around me
And in this state I'm sure it could drowned me
With a bloated sense of supremacy
Blinded by the preconceived distorted way to be perceived
It's what believed by your enemy
Hold on to something here come the rains
This damn is about to break
Hold on to nothing self-contained
How much more can you take
Might is right and though is wrong it's along road nowhere
Enjoy the ride with blinders on
Your government is in control they'll keep you safe inside your homes
Board your windows lock your doors let freedom ring
Hold on to something here come the rains
This damn is about to break
Hold on to nothing self-contained
How much more can you take
Before you break
Let freedom ring
Unto the dawn of darkness glistening
Faithless savior murder me
Feed me to failure disbelief
What does it take everything I could want believe
Feed me to failure faithless savior murder me
Finish me feed me to failure murder me
Finish me what does it take to stop me
Finish me nothing could make me not believe
Won't let this world get me finish me
I'll never live your life for me unto the dawn
Unto the dawn of darkness
Unto the dawn glistening
Feed me to failure finish me
Feed me to failure murder me
Unto the dawn of darkness finish me
Finish me unto the dawn murder me
Caught in the wave of the world around me
And in this state I'm sure it could drowned me
Will I ever learn the way everywhere I turn today
Something tells me runaway something burns inside me
Even though I've pressed erase
Feel it slowly fade away
Thoughts that go on endlessly
How much longer can I wait
What does it take what does it take
Caught in the wave of the world around me
And this state I'm sure it could drowned me
Caught in the wave of the world around me
And this state I'm sure it could drowned me
What does it take what does it take
Will I ever learn the way everywhere I turn today
Something tells me runaway something burns inside me
Even though I've pressed erase
Feel it slowly fade away
Thoughts that go on endlessly
How much longer can we wait
Caught in the wave of the world around me
And in this state I'm sure it could drowned me
Lyrics submitted by thienosaurus
Destroy the World Around Me Lyrics as written by Steve R. Felton Dave J. Felton
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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"Drowned" should be "drown."
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