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"
Superstition taking all of us for a ride
Mind's overtaken by the signs of the right
The bombs are falling overhead with no sight
While you are talking all detached, so tell us
Where are you going?
To the bottom
Do you hear us?
We are rotting
We're going down
In a spiral to the ground
No one
No one's gonna save us now
Ceremonies have killed religions for they provide
The masked comforts to delusionals, they're all in fright
The true believer's head was bathed in sunlight
While you are walking all detached, so tell us
Where are you going?
To the bottom
Do you hear us?
We are rotting
We're going down
In a spiral to the ground
No one
No one's gonna save us now
Not even God
No one saved us
No one's gonna save us
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Ah-ah
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Where do you expect them to go when the bombs fall?
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Superstition taking all of us for a ride
Mind's overtaken by the signs of the right
The bombs are falling overhead with no sight
While you are talking all detached
Detached, detached, detached, detached
Going down
In a spiral to the ground
No one
No one's gonna save us now (not even God)
No one saved us
No one saved us
No one saved us
No one's gonna save us now
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Mind's overtaken by the signs of the right
The bombs are falling overhead with no sight
While you are talking all detached, so tell us
Where are you going?
To the bottom
Do you hear us?
We are rotting
We're going down
In a spiral to the ground
No one
No one's gonna save us now
Ceremonies have killed religions for they provide
The masked comforts to delusionals, they're all in fright
The true believer's head was bathed in sunlight
While you are walking all detached, so tell us
Where are you going?
To the bottom
Do you hear us?
We are rotting
We're going down
In a spiral to the ground
No one
No one's gonna save us now
Not even God
No one saved us
No one's gonna save us
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Ah-ah
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Where do you expect them to go when the bombs fall?
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Superstition taking all of us for a ride
Mind's overtaken by the signs of the right
The bombs are falling overhead with no sight
While you are talking all detached
Detached, detached, detached, detached
Going down
In a spiral to the ground
No one
No one's gonna save us now (not even God)
No one saved us
No one saved us
No one saved us
No one's gonna save us now
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
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Hey haiduc and to the rest of the people, the correct lyrics are these:
Superstition taking all of us for a ride Mimes overtaken by the signs of the Right The bombs are falling overhead with no sight While you are talking all detached, so tell us
Where you going To the bottom Do you hear us We are rotting
We're going down in a spiral to the ground No one, no one's gonna save us now
Ceremonies have killed religions for they provide The masked comforts to delusionals, they're all in fright The true believer's head was bathed in sunlight While you are walking all detached, so tell us
Where you going To the bottom Do you hear us We are rotting
We're going down in a spiral to the ground No one, no one's gonna save us now Not even God, no one saved us No one's gonna save us
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall? Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall? Where do you expect them to go when the bombs fall? Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Superstition taking all of us for a ride Mimes overtaken by the signs of the Right The bombs are falling overhead with no sight While you are talking all detached, detached, detached, detached, detached
Going down, in a spiral to the ground No one, no one's gonna save us now Not even God, no one saved us, no one saved us No one saved us, no one's gonna save us now
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
As to the meaining of this song i still can't exactly say except that it sounds like we are doomed to being killed by bombs. One reason is that it say's" Where do you expect us to go WHEN the bombs fall" and " no one's gonna save us nowNot EVEN God". I like how It says "were going down in a spiral to the ground" because that what you would see looking down on a missile heading to the ground. It's only a matter of time before it hits the ground and explodes!