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"
You try your hardest to perfect your explanations
You lie until they've run out of questions
You can only move as fast as those in front of you
And if you assume just like them,what good will it do?
So find out for yourself,so your ignorance will stop bleeding through
Only one thing
Big enough to fill the void that's inside of you
It's just a breath away you can breathe today breathe today
So many lies swirling around you you're suffocating
The empty space in you
Steals your breath you're suffocating
Logic forces me to believe in this and now I've learned to see
I can only say what I've seen and heard and only you can choose
And every choice you make will affect you,search your own self
You can breathe today
So many lies swarming around you, you're suffocating
The empty shape in you
Steals your breath you're suffocating
Big enough to fill the void that's inside of you
It's just a breath away
So many lies swarming around you you're suffocating
The empty shape in you
Steals your breath you're suffocating
You can breathe today
Breathe today
You lie until they've run out of questions
You can only move as fast as those in front of you
And if you assume just like them,what good will it do?
So find out for yourself,so your ignorance will stop bleeding through
Only one thing
Big enough to fill the void that's inside of you
It's just a breath away you can breathe today breathe today
So many lies swirling around you you're suffocating
The empty space in you
Steals your breath you're suffocating
Logic forces me to believe in this and now I've learned to see
I can only say what I've seen and heard and only you can choose
And every choice you make will affect you,search your own self
You can breathe today
So many lies swarming around you, you're suffocating
The empty shape in you
Steals your breath you're suffocating
Big enough to fill the void that's inside of you
It's just a breath away
So many lies swarming around you you're suffocating
The empty shape in you
Steals your breath you're suffocating
You can breathe today
Breathe today
Lyrics submitted by catinthehatgrl
Breathe Today Lyrics as written by Sameer Bhattacharya Howard Benson
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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"And if you assume just like them, what good will it do?" An excellent question, but it can be turned around. If you assume what preachers tell you about theology, about the Bible or other "scriptures", about their gods, what good does it do?
If one feels empty inside, that can lead to the desire to "fill the void" in order to feel better. Religious beliefs can make people feel warm and fuzzy, but that says nothing about the veracity of the beliefs. A scientific viewpoint would suggest that people ought to decide their beliefs based upon reason and evidence, rather than passionate emotions such as fear and comfort.
Yes, "find out for yourself" is great advice. Investigate carefully, and you might find out that the Bible that preachers worship on a pedestal is filled with human flaws, just as they are. Many lofty thoughts and ideas are in the Bible, but also many contradictions and atrocities committed in the name of God.
"It's just a breath away, you can breathe today"? Yeah right. That suggests: don't investigate carefully, just jump right in today. Have that emotional conversion experience at the altar call, because hey, you feel bad and depressed now, and you don't wanna feel bad anymore, right? But is a moment of high emotion really a good time to make rational decisions? Passion clouds reason.
Yes, lies may be "swirling around you". Perhaps the religions that humans invent are just more of those lies.
One atheist's perspective.