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"
Born natural machines
For changing information
Changing me
Ride the River out of Eden
The flow of change comes slow
But constantly
Day by day I compete
New brothers in the pool, but wait
Most of them won’t stay
Guiding chaos into order
Genetic symphony goes on
A brand new score to play
Take a strand of DNA
Slight mutation every day
Survive so I can make my way
And be passed down – down
You – Them – Him – Her
I drive you
Need to survive you
I’ll work you like a clock
I write your story
Does our hero live or die
Remains yet to be seen
I need you to survive
You’re my machine
Survival of the species
Third in line behind the gene
Behind me
Compared with the machine
The bloodline doesn’t prove as thick
Or change a thing
I’m afraid of crossing over
I try to stay alive in you
Your life paves my way
If I really won this fight
If I am intact I will
Construct without delay
A brand new score to play
Take a strand of DNA
Slight mutation every day
Survive so I can make my way
And be passed down – down
You – Them – Him – Her
I drive you
Need to survive you
I’ll work you like a clock
I write your story
Does our hero live or die
Remains yet to be seen
I need you to survive
You’re my machine
Mother – Father – Sister – Brother
They fight me
They try to hide me
Inside where I belong
I have played my part
You – Me – We – Are
You are me
Think through it clearly
You work me like a clock
You write my story
Does our hero live or die
Remains yet to be seen
I need you to survive
You’re my machine
For changing information
Changing me
Ride the River out of Eden
The flow of change comes slow
But constantly
Day by day I compete
New brothers in the pool, but wait
Most of them won’t stay
Guiding chaos into order
Genetic symphony goes on
A brand new score to play
Take a strand of DNA
Slight mutation every day
Survive so I can make my way
And be passed down – down
You – Them – Him – Her
I drive you
Need to survive you
I’ll work you like a clock
I write your story
Does our hero live or die
Remains yet to be seen
I need you to survive
You’re my machine
Survival of the species
Third in line behind the gene
Behind me
Compared with the machine
The bloodline doesn’t prove as thick
Or change a thing
I’m afraid of crossing over
I try to stay alive in you
Your life paves my way
If I really won this fight
If I am intact I will
Construct without delay
A brand new score to play
Take a strand of DNA
Slight mutation every day
Survive so I can make my way
And be passed down – down
You – Them – Him – Her
I drive you
Need to survive you
I’ll work you like a clock
I write your story
Does our hero live or die
Remains yet to be seen
I need you to survive
You’re my machine
Mother – Father – Sister – Brother
They fight me
They try to hide me
Inside where I belong
I have played my part
You – Me – We – Are
You are me
Think through it clearly
You work me like a clock
You write my story
Does our hero live or die
Remains yet to be seen
I need you to survive
You’re my machine
Lyrics submitted by Idan
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