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"
The taste of avenging blood
Suffer horror she's with stood
Disgust, the core of her soul
The crime takes a new toll
Rapes the soul
Hear her pain
Listen
To what she'd scream
I'm gonna see you bleeding
Face down in the dirt
I'm gonna give you back what
You've taken with hurt
You coward
I'm gonna spit right into you face
In grace you'll be no more
This scar makes her heart stronger
Your breath makes her days longer
Life gained through your dying eyes
Revenge, life's bitter prize
Feel reprise
Hear her pain
And listen
To what she'd scream
I'm gonna see you bleeding
Face down in the dirt
I'm gonna give you back what
You've taken with hurt
You coward
I'm gonna spit right into you face
In grace you'll be no more
The seasons wither away
The seasons wither away
The seasons wither away
The seasons wither away
And we pray you die (and we pray you die)
We pray you suffocate (suffocate)
In pain you writhe (in pain you writhe)
This day we celebrate (celebrate)
This day we celebrate (this day we celebrate)
Desecrate
This mind and body
This heart and soul
Will not be trampled
Will not crumble
You can't hurt me (hurt me)
Your power's control denied
And you can't rape me (rape me)
That moment's effect has died
You're a fucking shell that's dead in my eyes
Dead!
Dead!
Suffer horror she's with stood
Disgust, the core of her soul
The crime takes a new toll
Rapes the soul
Hear her pain
Listen
To what she'd scream
I'm gonna see you bleeding
Face down in the dirt
I'm gonna give you back what
You've taken with hurt
You coward
I'm gonna spit right into you face
In grace you'll be no more
This scar makes her heart stronger
Your breath makes her days longer
Life gained through your dying eyes
Revenge, life's bitter prize
Feel reprise
Hear her pain
And listen
To what she'd scream
I'm gonna see you bleeding
Face down in the dirt
I'm gonna give you back what
You've taken with hurt
You coward
I'm gonna spit right into you face
In grace you'll be no more
The seasons wither away
The seasons wither away
The seasons wither away
The seasons wither away
And we pray you die (and we pray you die)
We pray you suffocate (suffocate)
In pain you writhe (in pain you writhe)
This day we celebrate (celebrate)
This day we celebrate (this day we celebrate)
Desecrate
This mind and body
This heart and soul
Will not be trampled
Will not crumble
You can't hurt me (hurt me)
Your power's control denied
And you can't rape me (rape me)
That moment's effect has died
You're a fucking shell that's dead in my eyes
Dead!
Dead!
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i think it's about the revenge. someone did something bad to someone close to you esle, and it's the revenge for this. damn it, this song rapes me!
im really amazed only 1 person has commented on this song other then me, this song is AWESOME!
it's 'coz MH has no popularity of lots of people. and i think it's good, 'cause popularity damages the art, the music. look on slipknot now...
very true....
I agree with -=ViRUS=- but I think it is about something else to: about a bad time in a life wich is over now-> the seasons wither away.
Revenge defiantly. its that sort of drive to destroy what has done wrong to someone.
yeah i think its about revenge against someoe who wronged you (i mean what more of meaning do you want from this song?)
I think this song is about heartless bastards who corrupt and destroy peoples lives, and how they get what is fuckin coming to them. in the end the people they harass and hurt will triumph.
It is more than just a song about revenge, but a reckoning. The injustice is one that has been long standing, over a lifetime. Also, I see it as something that was done to a woman, because of the constant use of the pronoun "she", and how the death of the oppresor is something that she has been praying for.
I'm not sure that it applies to this song, but 'Days Turn Blue to Gray' is about his wife's mom and dad and what shitty parents they were, so he may be referring to them in this song as well too.