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"
We are the tyrants within
This is my burden to carry
Poison in the veins of gracious earth
Creeping mean disease, a bleeding flow
This world is a dirty pool and we sink
Ist es das was Ihr wollt oder nicht versteht
So kanns nicht enden
Wir sind Verderben
And this is my burden
Loud horns trumpet the end
Sounds of perverted disharmony
We are the tyrants within
This is my burden to carry
Roaring voids of night
Season of unreason
Bloodstained, angels unshrouded
My burden to carry
Schandwerk, schreiende Nacht
Blutraub, ihr saugt weiter
Bohrt tief, tief ins fleisch
Ihr labt Euch am Untergang
Evil feeds you
Lights are dimming
Sleep well
This is the end
Das ist das Ende
This is my burden to carry
Poison in the veins of gracious earth
Creeping mean disease, a bleeding flow
This world is a dirty pool and we sink
Ist es das was Ihr wollt oder nicht versteht
So kanns nicht enden
Wir sind Verderben
And this is my burden
Loud horns trumpet the end
Sounds of perverted disharmony
We are the tyrants within
This is my burden to carry
Roaring voids of night
Season of unreason
Bloodstained, angels unshrouded
My burden to carry
Schandwerk, schreiende Nacht
Blutraub, ihr saugt weiter
Bohrt tief, tief ins fleisch
Ihr labt Euch am Untergang
Evil feeds you
Lights are dimming
Sleep well
This is the end
Das ist das Ende
Lyrics submitted by Donka
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Trying to guess at the german bits (Some native german OR english speaker would be good, I guess:)
It is what one wants or does not understand. This will never end. We are spoiled.
Second german section:
Shamework, crying night. Bloodloss, it keeps sucking. Deep boredom, deep in the flesh. You are refreshed with the fall.
The last sentence is obiviously just repeat of the english one. Anybody want to correct the translation?
My favorite song from the album, although the use of German in particular makes it quite reminiscent of Rammstein - not generally a bad thing.
I'm german... I'll try give it a go:
Is this what you want or don't understand? It cannot end like that We are decay
and the second section: (I don't know if "shamework" is correct but I can't find a translation.... and it sounds all right to me)
Shamework, crying night blood-predation, you keep on sucking gouge (?) deep, deep into the flesh you are refreshed by/with (?) the fall
I like him switching between the languages, it sounds good. My favorite song is 'Endless night', but I'm not really settled on this one song...