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"
As you walked away
A strand of hair came undone
And was reflected in the sun
And everything was orange
As you disappeared
The shadow of death came undone
And was reflected in the sun
And everything was orange
They have begun to celebrate
The tidal wave they think is great
The ever-beating heart that it wasn't
They have begun
They have begun
They have begun
To assassinate the sun
As you died in the night
A million stars formed into one
And became another sun
And everything was orange
And now this horrible machine
Churns out pain instead of love
And looks just like the sun
And everything was orange
They have begun
They have begun
They have begun
To assassinate the sun
A strand of hair came undone
And was reflected in the sun
And everything was orange
As you disappeared
The shadow of death came undone
And was reflected in the sun
And everything was orange
They have begun to celebrate
The tidal wave they think is great
The ever-beating heart that it wasn't
They have begun
They have begun
They have begun
To assassinate the sun
As you died in the night
A million stars formed into one
And became another sun
And everything was orange
And now this horrible machine
Churns out pain instead of love
And looks just like the sun
And everything was orange
They have begun
They have begun
They have begun
To assassinate the sun
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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This song is about the horrible feeling you have when someone you are close to passes away. In the song, the sun is replaced by a "horrible machine" consisting of "pain instead of love", but it "looks just like the sun." Everything seems the same on the surface, but you feel that something is deeply wrong beneath the surface.
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My inclination is that in this song the sun is meant to represent heaven. I could be looking too deep into this but it seems to me that Wayne is referring to the assassination of what is good in this world by the evils in our daily life. He may be referring to the evangelical movement when he says "they have begun to celebrate the tidal wave they think is great/the ever beating heart that it wasnt" and how from the inside the evangelists see it as a fantastice movement but on the outside theyre running a horrible machine that churns out pain instead of orange, but operates under the facade of something heavenly ("and everything was orange).
where could i find this song?
This is in the "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" EP. Which is pretty under-rated in my opinion.