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"
Nocturnal poetry
Dressed in the whitest silver you'd smile at me
Every night I wait for my sweet Selene
But still
Solitude's upon my skin
A life that's bound by the chains of reality
Would you let me your Endymion
I would
Bathe in your moonlight and slumber in peace
Enchanted by your kiss in forever sleep
But until we unite
I live for that night
Wait for time
Two souls entwine
In the break of new dawn
My hope is forlorn
Shadows they will fade
Without you
Serene and silent sky
Rays of moon dancing with the tide
A perfect sight, a world divine
And I
The loneliest child alive
Always waiting, searching for my rhyme
I'm still alone in the dead of night
Silent I lie with a smile on my face
appearance deceives and the silence betrays
As I wait for the time
My dream comes alive
Always out of sight
But never out of mind
And under waning moon
Still I long for you
Alone against the light
Solitude am I
In the end I'm enslaved by my dream
In the end there's no soul who'd bleed for me
Hidden from daylight sealed in my cave
Trapped in a dream that is slowly turning to nightmare,
Where I'm all alone
Venial is like when you're but a dream
The book is still open the pages as empty as me
I cling to a hope that's beginning to fade
Trying to break, the desolation I hate
But until we unite
I live for that night
Wait for time
Two souls entwine
In the break of new dawn
My hope is forlorn
We will never meet
Only misery and me
This my final call
My even fall
Drowning into time
I become the night
By the light of new die
I'll fade away
Reality cuts deep
Would you bleed with me
My Selene
Dressed in the whitest silver you'd smile at me
Every night I wait for my sweet Selene
But still
Solitude's upon my skin
A life that's bound by the chains of reality
Would you let me your Endymion
I would
Bathe in your moonlight and slumber in peace
Enchanted by your kiss in forever sleep
But until we unite
I live for that night
Wait for time
Two souls entwine
In the break of new dawn
My hope is forlorn
Shadows they will fade
Without you
Serene and silent sky
Rays of moon dancing with the tide
A perfect sight, a world divine
And I
The loneliest child alive
Always waiting, searching for my rhyme
I'm still alone in the dead of night
Silent I lie with a smile on my face
appearance deceives and the silence betrays
As I wait for the time
My dream comes alive
Always out of sight
But never out of mind
And under waning moon
Still I long for you
Alone against the light
Solitude am I
In the end I'm enslaved by my dream
In the end there's no soul who'd bleed for me
Hidden from daylight sealed in my cave
Trapped in a dream that is slowly turning to nightmare,
Where I'm all alone
Venial is like when you're but a dream
The book is still open the pages as empty as me
I cling to a hope that's beginning to fade
Trying to break, the desolation I hate
But until we unite
I live for that night
Wait for time
Two souls entwine
In the break of new dawn
My hope is forlorn
We will never meet
Only misery and me
This my final call
My even fall
Drowning into time
I become the night
By the light of new die
I'll fade away
Reality cuts deep
Would you bleed with me
My Selene
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In an odd way this is, to me, a sort of cousin song to Nightwish's Ever Dream. Lyrically they feel close to me, but i also see this as something other than long distance relationships.
Hmm, well, Sonata Arctica and Nightwish DO have a lot of similarities.