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"
Welcome home to my reality.
So you taste yourself every time?
This your swan song I'll sing for you.
I'll cut the words from your mouth
You'll never speak my name again.
Locked up and sold the fuck out
Don't think you won't see me again.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of deceit
Twice for your malice
Three times when I take you away.
This is a homicide daydream
I won't waste my hate on you.
All that you've claimed not to be
Has now come to define you.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of regret
Twice for your envy
Three times when I take you away.
Turn on my heels
And spit apathy on this bridge you have burnt.
Feast on my own blood
I'll drain myself to sleep.
I'll rise from death to knife this beast
These last regrets the ones I keep.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of deceit
Twice for your malice
Three times when I take you away
So you taste yourself every time?
This your swan song I'll sing for you.
I'll cut the words from your mouth
You'll never speak my name again.
Locked up and sold the fuck out
Don't think you won't see me again.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of deceit
Twice for your malice
Three times when I take you away.
This is a homicide daydream
I won't waste my hate on you.
All that you've claimed not to be
Has now come to define you.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of regret
Twice for your envy
Three times when I take you away.
Turn on my heels
And spit apathy on this bridge you have burnt.
Feast on my own blood
I'll drain myself to sleep.
I'll rise from death to knife this beast
These last regrets the ones I keep.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of deceit
Twice for your malice
Three times when I take you away
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when i read over the lyrics a couple times i did think of him describing a relationship with a girl going wrong. reading the comments confirmed by beliefs. but i see evidence in almost every line, not just the few mentioned above.
Welcome home to my reality. So you taste yourself every time? bitter must be your pleasure This your swan song I'll sing for you. I'll cut the words from your mouth You'll never speak my name again. Locked up and sold the fuck out Don't think you won't see me again.
i believe this shows what their first confrontation would be like after they both realize how wrong they are for each other. he tells her to pretty much open her eyes to whats happened to him because of her, and that she must be so cold-hearted that being bitter is a pleasure to her. the line "this your swan song i'll sing for you" comes across as sarcasm: maybe she asked him to write her a song, and now hes doing so, but not the way she wanted, which was supposed to be out of praise for her (swan). "you'll never speak my name again" is a statement that strongly cuts her out of his life, because lovers rely on the exchange of names, which gives a true sense of belonging to one another. the last two lines don't mean that he is going to approach her, but that he wont be off her mind after she realizes what she has done.
This is a homicide daydream I won't waste my hate on you. All that you've claimed not to be Has now come to define you.
i think these lines have been pretty well explained by others :P hes not going to do anything. these are just hostile thoughts and he doesnt see a point in wasting his energy turning them into reality. and he calls her a hypocrite for becoming what she said she wasn't.
Turn on my heels And spit apathy on this bridge you have burnt. Feast on my own blood I'll drain myself to sleep. I'll rise from death to knife this beast These last regrets the one I keep.
turning away and not looking back because hes made his choice to get the hell away from her. hes going to swallow his emotions and put out the fire she used to destroy the bond between them by smothering it with apathy. i interpret blood as a vital tool for life, and so he says all he has left to keep him there is his own blood, which he drains to purify himself, and does somewhat of a christ-like act in which he rises after death (sort of) to "knife this beast", get rid of the hate and anger that holds him back to the memories of her. "these last regrets the one i keep" i think is just a summary saying these are the things he regrets, let them merge into one simple reminder of where he cant go wrong again.