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 these excruciating times nest now upon us
will we have the strength
to execute our passions wisely?
Or as every minute bleeds into the next
will these shores of time subside,
and leave us with the blindness of our hearts.
Every legend's wrath will have its day
to embitter its demise into a gain,
to patch the broken lights of its decay as rebirth in fires leave us slain, to replace every moment of our pain, to watch you die again each day with the solace of a hope forgotten and unsustained.
So now as want would now suggest, shall
we fall like all the rest, or do we have the strength
to suffer every moment of our hopes decay?
Cursing every shadow, every shadow of our sight, while slaving for a second chance, we're guilty of an apathetic glance.
Embolden by no threat or conscious flaw, inside the will to live is faltering. In this war of words, I stumble from my path. I will shoulder every burden of despair until I die.
will we have the strength
to execute our passions wisely?
Or as every minute bleeds into the next
will these shores of time subside,
and leave us with the blindness of our hearts.
Every legend's wrath will have its day
to embitter its demise into a gain,
to patch the broken lights of its decay as rebirth in fires leave us slain, to replace every moment of our pain, to watch you die again each day with the solace of a hope forgotten and unsustained.
So now as want would now suggest, shall
we fall like all the rest, or do we have the strength
to suffer every moment of our hopes decay?
Cursing every shadow, every shadow of our sight, while slaving for a second chance, we're guilty of an apathetic glance.
Embolden by no threat or conscious flaw, inside the will to live is faltering. In this war of words, I stumble from my path. I will shoulder every burden of despair until I die.
Lyrics submitted by B12
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