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"
They brought you into this place, all scars and stains, memories erased by the days that passed and the people who replaced you. Alone, too afraid to continue, from all the things that you've been through, and all the friends that left you out in the cold.
This is your last chance to tell if you know them so well. Well, I've got your burning hell out here in the rain. Time for your classic betrayal, in this, your last chance to fail. She breaks, a conscience so frail, let's see the remains.
It took that look in your eyes to make me realize just what you're capable of, obsessive razor love. Time for your final say, you take the stage. All smiles and sunny days scattered among the graves.
This is your last chance to tell if you know them so well. Well, I've got your burning hell out here in the rain. Time for your classic betrayal, in this, your last chance to fail. She breaks, a conscience so frail, let's see the remains.
This is your last chance to tell if you know them so well. Well, I've got your burning hell out here in the rain. Time for your classic betrayal, in this, your last chance to fail. She breaks, a conscience so frail, let's see the remains.
This is your last chance to tell if you know them so well. Well, I've got your burning hell out here in the rain. Time for your classic betrayal, in this, your last chance to fail. She breaks, a conscience so frail, let's see the remains.
It took that look in your eyes to make me realize just what you're capable of, obsessive razor love. Time for your final say, you take the stage. All smiles and sunny days scattered among the graves.
This is your last chance to tell if you know them so well. Well, I've got your burning hell out here in the rain. Time for your classic betrayal, in this, your last chance to fail. She breaks, a conscience so frail, let's see the remains.
This is your last chance to tell if you know them so well. Well, I've got your burning hell out here in the rain. Time for your classic betrayal, in this, your last chance to fail. She breaks, a conscience so frail, let's see the remains.
Lyrics submitted by Tillman
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