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"
I want to take my head and cut it open wide
Want to examine, oh the thoughts that circle inside
Electrocute my thoughts or put myself on stand by,
I'm so over, I'm so over you
Let's open up the sky and let the clichè's pour
Everything has been executed there before
Eight-bit fantasies, I'm yesterday's technology
Follow the leader, jump off with me
The wine is dripping with the blood off my finger tips
The mitochondrion are revolting, please take care of it
Carnivorous cells are winning against your cancer lips
So come over, come over
Oh, my God, I want to tear you apart
I am walking but I'm still asleep
Oh, my Lord, this is blasphemy
Wake me up before I fall too deep
I wish I had an original thought inside my skull
Everything has been done a million times before
My dream sequence has become my life or so it seems
All my friends are dead, in a perfect sense
Oh, my God, I want to tear you apart
I am walking but I'm still asleep
Oh, my Lord, this is blasphemy
Wake me up before I fall too deep
In too deep
Oblivious and numb
In too deep
I want to hurt you, but can't cut you fast enough
The ink is dripping, and my letter has become a mess
I want to hate you, but hate is love, just reversed
Why do we talk about things that we loathe the most?
Oh, my God, I want to tear you apart
I am walking but I'm still asleep
Oh, my Lord, this is blasphemy
Wake me up before I fall too deep
Wake me up before I fall too deep
Want to examine, oh the thoughts that circle inside
Electrocute my thoughts or put myself on stand by,
I'm so over, I'm so over you
Let's open up the sky and let the clichè's pour
Everything has been executed there before
Eight-bit fantasies, I'm yesterday's technology
Follow the leader, jump off with me
The wine is dripping with the blood off my finger tips
The mitochondrion are revolting, please take care of it
Carnivorous cells are winning against your cancer lips
So come over, come over
Oh, my God, I want to tear you apart
I am walking but I'm still asleep
Oh, my Lord, this is blasphemy
Wake me up before I fall too deep
I wish I had an original thought inside my skull
Everything has been done a million times before
My dream sequence has become my life or so it seems
All my friends are dead, in a perfect sense
Oh, my God, I want to tear you apart
I am walking but I'm still asleep
Oh, my Lord, this is blasphemy
Wake me up before I fall too deep
In too deep
Oblivious and numb
In too deep
I want to hurt you, but can't cut you fast enough
The ink is dripping, and my letter has become a mess
I want to hate you, but hate is love, just reversed
Why do we talk about things that we loathe the most?
Oh, my God, I want to tear you apart
I am walking but I'm still asleep
Oh, my Lord, this is blasphemy
Wake me up before I fall too deep
Wake me up before I fall too deep
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