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"
I could be wrong, but I've seen your face before
Not sure which side you're on, but be sure this is war
Can you find me, can you find me, walking through the door?
I'm making plans with you
I’ll be your downfall
We're on a mission, don't get in our way
God is the leader, it doesn't matter what you say
Lives that we save are worth any cost
A right to life for all that agree with us
Infiltrate blasphemous strongholds
Oh this is it, put 'em on death row
You can't find me, you can't find me
I’m right under your nose
We won't be finished 'til we force the clinics closed
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
The Lord has spoken
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
How can you to stop us?
Infiltrate blasphemous strongholds
Oh this is it, put 'em on death row
You can't find me, you can't find me
I’m right under your nose
We won't be finished 'til we force the clinics closed
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
The Lord has spoken
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
How can you to stop us?
We will take back our communities from you perverted, homosexual, baby killing freaks
In the name of God and country and the right to bare arms
By any means necessary, we'll fight for what is ours
We've had enough of this liberal facade
Destroy the nuts and hippies, the anarcho-commie squads,
Can you find us, can you find us, we're a moral majority
We've even got leaders on your leftist run TV
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
The Lord has spoken
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
The Lord has spoken
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
The Lord has spoken
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
How can you to stop...
How can you to stop...
How can you to stop us?
Not sure which side you're on, but be sure this is war
Can you find me, can you find me, walking through the door?
I'm making plans with you
I’ll be your downfall
We're on a mission, don't get in our way
God is the leader, it doesn't matter what you say
Lives that we save are worth any cost
A right to life for all that agree with us
Infiltrate blasphemous strongholds
Oh this is it, put 'em on death row
You can't find me, you can't find me
I’m right under your nose
We won't be finished 'til we force the clinics closed
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
The Lord has spoken
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
How can you to stop us?
Infiltrate blasphemous strongholds
Oh this is it, put 'em on death row
You can't find me, you can't find me
I’m right under your nose
We won't be finished 'til we force the clinics closed
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
The Lord has spoken
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
How can you to stop us?
We will take back our communities from you perverted, homosexual, baby killing freaks
In the name of God and country and the right to bare arms
By any means necessary, we'll fight for what is ours
We've had enough of this liberal facade
Destroy the nuts and hippies, the anarcho-commie squads,
Can you find us, can you find us, we're a moral majority
We've even got leaders on your leftist run TV
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
The Lord has spoken
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
The Lord has spoken
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
The Lord has spoken
Oh no, we've seen the writing on the wall
How can you to stop...
How can you to stop...
How can you to stop us?
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what does we've seen the writing on the wall mean?
@rej0inder itprobably refers to the caligraphy that muslims have in their mosques