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"
Some people call me a sinner / Some people say I should be ashamed
I ask you why they don’t give us no rest / It’s enough- enough to drive me to despair
You looked like a fairy/ Smelt like a flower
Sweetest temptation I ever saw
The shine in your eyes and your laughing made my heart sing
I fell in love / Suddenly I forgot the law
This love was so strong / Seemed so hopeful
Damned sweet memories torment my brain
Now I’m here / And the rain falls on a grave
But I’m sure it can’t rinse my pain away
Chorus:
Wish you could be by my side / My dreams promise only lies
Illusions - I can’t hold them tight
And I cry
Should I reproach myself with weakness / Is it crime to succumb to sin
To a sin, when it looks like an angelic girl
I couldn’t defend myself against your sweet fifteen
Chorus
Wish you could be by my side / Implore the lord but in vain
I’ll never can stop my cry
Now they had a reason for their gossip / For scorn and the hate from their stonecold hearts
You was too young to resist all these hurts / You was fifteen so the death was your last resort
So I’m here and deplore the disaster / Painful I feel nothing makes sense
No sorrow, no tears and no rage will make undo your death
And I see to life without you I have to learn
Choruses
I ask you why they don’t give us no rest / It’s enough- enough to drive me to despair
You looked like a fairy/ Smelt like a flower
Sweetest temptation I ever saw
The shine in your eyes and your laughing made my heart sing
I fell in love / Suddenly I forgot the law
This love was so strong / Seemed so hopeful
Damned sweet memories torment my brain
Now I’m here / And the rain falls on a grave
But I’m sure it can’t rinse my pain away
Chorus:
Wish you could be by my side / My dreams promise only lies
Illusions - I can’t hold them tight
And I cry
Should I reproach myself with weakness / Is it crime to succumb to sin
To a sin, when it looks like an angelic girl
I couldn’t defend myself against your sweet fifteen
Chorus
Wish you could be by my side / Implore the lord but in vain
I’ll never can stop my cry
Now they had a reason for their gossip / For scorn and the hate from their stonecold hearts
You was too young to resist all these hurts / You was fifteen so the death was your last resort
So I’m here and deplore the disaster / Painful I feel nothing makes sense
No sorrow, no tears and no rage will make undo your death
And I see to life without you I have to learn
Choruses
Lyrics submitted by pockyman
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