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"
Please speak softly
For they will hear us
And they'll find out
Why we don't trust them
Speak up dear
'Cause I cannot hear you
I need to know
Why we don't trust them
Explain to me
This conspiracy against me
Yeah yeah yeah
And tell me how
I've lost my power
Oh yeah
Where can I turn
'Cause I need something more
Surrounded by uncertainty
I'm so unsure
Tell me why
I feel so alone
Cause I need to know
To whom do I owe
Explain to me
This conspiracy against me
Yeah yeah yeah
And tell me how
I've lost my power
Oh yeah
I thought that we'd make it
Because you said
That we'd make it through
And when all security fails
Will you be there to help me through
Explain to me
This conspiracy against me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And tell me how
I've lost my power
Oh, yeah
For they will hear us
And they'll find out
Why we don't trust them
Speak up dear
'Cause I cannot hear you
I need to know
Why we don't trust them
Explain to me
This conspiracy against me
Yeah yeah yeah
And tell me how
I've lost my power
Oh yeah
Where can I turn
'Cause I need something more
Surrounded by uncertainty
I'm so unsure
Tell me why
I feel so alone
Cause I need to know
To whom do I owe
Explain to me
This conspiracy against me
Yeah yeah yeah
And tell me how
I've lost my power
Oh yeah
I thought that we'd make it
Because you said
That we'd make it through
And when all security fails
Will you be there to help me through
Explain to me
This conspiracy against me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And tell me how
I've lost my power
Oh, yeah
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208
Conspiracy Lyrics as written by Josh Farro Hayley Nichole Williams
Lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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i think that she's trying to tell someone something possibly whispering because she say's... " please speak softly for they will hear us and they'll find out why we don't trust them"
maybe a lover/close friend..is the only one who she feels she can tell this to cause she may not have trust in the others. as the 2nd reply's ... "speak up dear cause i cannot hear you, and i need to know why we don't trust them"
but then this person is sayin speak up dear..maybe blatently for them (the others) to hear cause somehow she hears why we don't trust them"
the chorus.. (Explain to me this conspiracy against me And tell me how I've lost my power)
she want's to know what this conspiracy against her is...suggesting the person she is speaking with maybe knows, friends may have jelousy upon her or some other kind of unloyalty. but by her saying and tell me how iv'e lost my power, sort of gets us to think that she is losing maybe her self esteem and confidence beacuse of people havin some kind of secret about her but at the same time she's trying to whisper a secret to someone else.
the second verse...tells us about her feeling lonely asking where can she turn and that she's surrounded by uncertainty, possibly friends she has know lost over something probably stupid and if her friends are going to dump her like this she's unsure of other people. then we see how she is asking this one person if they are going to be their for her to help her..
my opinion x
great song by an awsum band my heart goes out to them