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"
Soon I'll be dead, I'll lay in my bed,
I've made in my years, I won't shed a tear.
We're all guilty anyways, the dumb games we all play,
All tarnished and scarred, when did life get so hard?
We'll drink to aulde lang syne with fortified wine,
We'll drink to tymes olde from pitchers of gold.
Soon we'll be dead, to death we'll be wed,
We'll slip on the ring, it ain't a big thing.
And though you might curse "thee", we're angels of mercy,
And sometimes we fall; ya can't win them all. (No I can't.)
I'll pass out at dawn and dream of friends gone
As the morbid embrace warms over my face.
And soon we'll be dead, our brains in our heads,
They've always forgotten when life gets so rotten.
Soon we'll be dead, and I'll lay in my bed,
I've made in my years, I won't shed a tear.
Soon we'll be dead, I'll lay in our bed,
I've made in my years, we won't shed a tear.
And soon we'll be dead, our brains in our heads,
They've always forgotten, when life gets so rotten. Yeah.
Our lives in our hands.
I've made in my years, I won't shed a tear.
We're all guilty anyways, the dumb games we all play,
All tarnished and scarred, when did life get so hard?
We'll drink to aulde lang syne with fortified wine,
We'll drink to tymes olde from pitchers of gold.
Soon we'll be dead, to death we'll be wed,
We'll slip on the ring, it ain't a big thing.
And though you might curse "thee", we're angels of mercy,
And sometimes we fall; ya can't win them all. (No I can't.)
I'll pass out at dawn and dream of friends gone
As the morbid embrace warms over my face.
And soon we'll be dead, our brains in our heads,
They've always forgotten when life gets so rotten.
Soon we'll be dead, and I'll lay in my bed,
I've made in my years, I won't shed a tear.
Soon we'll be dead, I'll lay in our bed,
I've made in my years, we won't shed a tear.
And soon we'll be dead, our brains in our heads,
They've always forgotten, when life gets so rotten. Yeah.
Our lives in our hands.
Lyrics submitted by skacore_dude
Soon We'll Be Dead (w/ World/Inferno Friendship Society) song meanings
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