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"
VERSE ONE
My head is all
tied up a bit.
Sick and tired
of the same old shit.
Where's the gun?
Pass the knife.
Hit me up with cyanide
to claim my life!!!
VERSE TWO
Razor burn.
Infected scars.
Bodies laying
underneath the cars.
Why can't I escape?
Why am I still around?
When will I be placed
underground?!?
CHORUS
Nobody cares!
Nobody knows!
Living a lie and still
my insolence shows!
Nobody thinks!
Nobody tries!
Won't you deafen my ears
and make blind my eyes!
VERSE THREE
Take the time
to look at me
within my eyes, tell me
what do you see?
Is there a demon in there?
Is he eating my soul?
I can feel him inside,
my pain is his only goal!!!
VERSE FOUR
I work so hard
but fall again.
This fucking struggle
will never end.
Paint me black
and leave me in the dark
on an empty bench
in an empty park!!!
CHORUS
Nobody cares!
Nobody knows!
Living a lie and still
my insolence shows!
Nobody thinks!
Nobody tries!
Won't you deafen my ears
and make blind my eyes!
GUITAR SOLO
VERSE FIVE
I'm lost in this
dimension of pain
with an umbrella of truth
to keep me dry in the rain.
When I look up,
I see a reason why
the only way out
is for me to die!!!
VERSE SIX
I can't look up
or down at my feet.
My screaming conscience
has got me beat.
I can't go on
nor will I try.
I wasn't much so there's
no need to cry!!!
CHORUS
Nobody cares!
Nobody knows!
Living a lie and still
my insolence shows!
Nobody thinks!
Nobody tries!
Won't you deafen my ears
and make blind my eyes!
My head is all
tied up a bit.
Sick and tired
of the same old shit.
Where's the gun?
Pass the knife.
Hit me up with cyanide
to claim my life!!!
VERSE TWO
Razor burn.
Infected scars.
Bodies laying
underneath the cars.
Why can't I escape?
Why am I still around?
When will I be placed
underground?!?
CHORUS
Nobody cares!
Nobody knows!
Living a lie and still
my insolence shows!
Nobody thinks!
Nobody tries!
Won't you deafen my ears
and make blind my eyes!
VERSE THREE
Take the time
to look at me
within my eyes, tell me
what do you see?
Is there a demon in there?
Is he eating my soul?
I can feel him inside,
my pain is his only goal!!!
VERSE FOUR
I work so hard
but fall again.
This fucking struggle
will never end.
Paint me black
and leave me in the dark
on an empty bench
in an empty park!!!
CHORUS
Nobody cares!
Nobody knows!
Living a lie and still
my insolence shows!
Nobody thinks!
Nobody tries!
Won't you deafen my ears
and make blind my eyes!
GUITAR SOLO
VERSE FIVE
I'm lost in this
dimension of pain
with an umbrella of truth
to keep me dry in the rain.
When I look up,
I see a reason why
the only way out
is for me to die!!!
VERSE SIX
I can't look up
or down at my feet.
My screaming conscience
has got me beat.
I can't go on
nor will I try.
I wasn't much so there's
no need to cry!!!
CHORUS
Nobody cares!
Nobody knows!
Living a lie and still
my insolence shows!
Nobody thinks!
Nobody tries!
Won't you deafen my ears
and make blind my eyes!
Lyrics submitted by VampedVixen
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