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"
Have you beheld how our ending befell?
We are the catalyst; engineered hell
The depths we've sunken to
The violent things we do
A cleansing tide would eradicate all of you
How did you think when in apathy's drink
That doing nothing would spare you from the brink
You're equally at fault; now broken by the assault
The righteous, the victims, the villainous ones and all
I know what you're hiding from
I know what you're hiding from
The waves keep crashing over
They pummel me, over and over
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
Wash us away in the tides of decay
Extinction soon will claim us all as his prey
We're pulled in to the sea; the tempest has been set free
I'm wide awake when the lightning comes beckoning
Burn us alive for our sins and our crimes
We are the wretched ones malevolent slime
Existing to consume; everything we once knew
Take us, break us, submerge us inside our tomb
I know what you're hiding from
I know what you're hiding from
The waves keep crashing over
They pummel me, over and over
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
This quest is impossible brave this storm
I'm feeling my insides pull brave this storm
I'm being devoured whole (brave this storm)
My soul is poured in the world (brave this)
The waves keep crashing over
They pummel me, over and over
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
The waves keep crashing over
They pummel me, over and over
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
We are the catalyst; engineered hell
The depths we've sunken to
The violent things we do
A cleansing tide would eradicate all of you
How did you think when in apathy's drink
That doing nothing would spare you from the brink
You're equally at fault; now broken by the assault
The righteous, the victims, the villainous ones and all
I know what you're hiding from
I know what you're hiding from
The waves keep crashing over
They pummel me, over and over
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
Wash us away in the tides of decay
Extinction soon will claim us all as his prey
We're pulled in to the sea; the tempest has been set free
I'm wide awake when the lightning comes beckoning
Burn us alive for our sins and our crimes
We are the wretched ones malevolent slime
Existing to consume; everything we once knew
Take us, break us, submerge us inside our tomb
I know what you're hiding from
I know what you're hiding from
The waves keep crashing over
They pummel me, over and over
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
This quest is impossible brave this storm
I'm feeling my insides pull brave this storm
I'm being devoured whole (brave this storm)
My soul is poured in the world (brave this)
The waves keep crashing over
They pummel me, over and over
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
The waves keep crashing over
They pummel me, over and over
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think I can ever brave this storm
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It just seems to be a fantasy song of some sort. Sounds more like being attacked by the Nazgul in lord of the rings (if they kill you with a special blade they can choose to make you one of them, but under their command). That would explain the last stanza/paragraph.
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