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"
There's just so many things you never needed to say
Like I'm your other soul, but you collect them all
Your tears are meaningless, they're written on your face
Just like your empty words, just like the chemical
Just like the disease that stains you lips tonight
You are the disease that's in my life
If its no one's fault, there's just no one to blame
And nothing to say
This time its no one's fault, so there's nothing to save
And no one to hate, but I want to so bad
Believe me
There's just so many ways you never needed to be
Like cuts of empty space that never leaves your side
Now wipe that stupid look off of your face
You're not the finest one
You're not the only one
You're just a disease that stains her lips tonight
You are the disease that's in my life
If its no one's fault there's just no one to blame
And nothing to say
This time its no one's fault so there's nothing to save
But I want to so bad, believe me
We're great in small doses, I pronounce it
You're set aside, loving me
You're so proud of yourself and your disadvantage to me
It's just something you love to say
The greater the dosage, makes me mispronounce it to be
You're dead inside of me (you're dead inside)
You're dead inside of me (you're dead inside)
But when you're alone, and no one knows
It doesn't seem to matter
You're the same inside of me
If its no one's fault there's just no one to blame
And nothing to say
This time its no one's fault so there's nothing to save
And no one to hate if I say, "I want you so bad"
It doesn't matter, don't believe me
You're just the disease that was in my life
Like I'm your other soul, but you collect them all
Your tears are meaningless, they're written on your face
Just like your empty words, just like the chemical
Just like the disease that stains you lips tonight
You are the disease that's in my life
If its no one's fault, there's just no one to blame
And nothing to say
This time its no one's fault, so there's nothing to save
And no one to hate, but I want to so bad
Believe me
There's just so many ways you never needed to be
Like cuts of empty space that never leaves your side
Now wipe that stupid look off of your face
You're not the finest one
You're not the only one
You're just a disease that stains her lips tonight
You are the disease that's in my life
If its no one's fault there's just no one to blame
And nothing to say
This time its no one's fault so there's nothing to save
But I want to so bad, believe me
We're great in small doses, I pronounce it
You're set aside, loving me
You're so proud of yourself and your disadvantage to me
It's just something you love to say
The greater the dosage, makes me mispronounce it to be
You're dead inside of me (you're dead inside)
You're dead inside of me (you're dead inside)
But when you're alone, and no one knows
It doesn't seem to matter
You're the same inside of me
If its no one's fault there's just no one to blame
And nothing to say
This time its no one's fault so there's nothing to save
And no one to hate if I say, "I want you so bad"
It doesn't matter, don't believe me
You're just the disease that was in my life
Lyrics submitted by St3wi3Griffin
Dark That Follows Lyrics as written by Kevin James Clarkson Joseph Daniel Lauzon
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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i would think that the 'dark that follows' itself would refer to the man who takes your place in the woman of your dreams' life.
do you see what i mean? her new lover is the 'dark that follows' the 'eclipse' of your hearts, to put a spin on Matisyn's own words in the 'Unplugged Melody.'
"you are just the disease that stains her lips tonight." The new man is the 'disease.' He doesn't deserve her but she's been infected by him. The narrator watches helplessly from the sidelines.
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