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"
His time with Him that stopped;
its time for Him to carry out His Father’s will.
He said He’d drink this cup.
He’s told them all along that He would go;
they could not follow Him,
but He’ll be back for them my friend.
And now He sweats these drops of blood
and He prays “take this cup from Me”
but He knows there’s no other way.
His Father’s will, He said He’d take your sin,
your shame, your place upon that cross of pain and die for you.
There’s no way to repay all the pain he went hrough for you.
His reason- simply his love. Its time to see the truth-
understand there’s nothing you can do.
His reason- is simply you.
It was all for, it was all for you.
He bled and died for you.
We live by grace through faith alone with Jesus Christ
who died to set us free through change; our flesh can give.
You know that even if you were the only one He died for,
that means only your sins drove the nails.
There’s no way to repay all the pain He went through for you.
His reason- simply His love. Its time to see the truth-
understand there’s nothing you can do. His reason- is simply you.
It was all for, it was all for you. He bled and died for you.
It was all for, it was all for you. He bled and He died for you.
No time to hesitate my friend. No time to second guess His love.
There’s nothing else that you can do. He already gave it all for you.
All for you. All for you. All for you. All for you. Simply you.
It was all for, it was all for you. He bled and died for you.
It was all for, it was all for you. He bled and He died for you.
All for you. All for you. All for you.
its time for Him to carry out His Father’s will.
He said He’d drink this cup.
He’s told them all along that He would go;
they could not follow Him,
but He’ll be back for them my friend.
And now He sweats these drops of blood
and He prays “take this cup from Me”
but He knows there’s no other way.
His Father’s will, He said He’d take your sin,
your shame, your place upon that cross of pain and die for you.
There’s no way to repay all the pain he went hrough for you.
His reason- simply his love. Its time to see the truth-
understand there’s nothing you can do.
His reason- is simply you.
It was all for, it was all for you.
He bled and died for you.
We live by grace through faith alone with Jesus Christ
who died to set us free through change; our flesh can give.
You know that even if you were the only one He died for,
that means only your sins drove the nails.
There’s no way to repay all the pain He went through for you.
His reason- simply His love. Its time to see the truth-
understand there’s nothing you can do. His reason- is simply you.
It was all for, it was all for you. He bled and died for you.
It was all for, it was all for you. He bled and He died for you.
No time to hesitate my friend. No time to second guess His love.
There’s nothing else that you can do. He already gave it all for you.
All for you. All for you. All for you. All for you. Simply you.
It was all for, it was all for you. He bled and died for you.
It was all for, it was all for you. He bled and He died for you.
All for you. All for you. All for you.
Lyrics submitted by sens_freak_18
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