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"
Sleep, for, life
Fear shreds, your internal logistics system
You are just a pawn/fool, driven by a disturbance
inside your mindscape
It is, the consuming unknown that awaits you
And you, cry, for you cannot escape the ache
The void is nearly here
Nerves are, tested by a circumstance invented by the
Mere existence of our world
You can feel that there's something more than just
Progressing life while
You neighbour will deny, deny, deny!
You awaken and you're shaken by the dim reality that
Becomes you, and consumes your mind
That death is real and you will soon hold it in
An embrace so tight you can't let it go.
You want to believe in something higher
Social derision, blindfolded vision, need for decision
Nothings eternal, belief is infernal, you god is internal.
You may not exist soon so enjoy it while you can.
The power is in your hands in that
deciding moment of your sad life. Controlled by
A thing called time only fates forces can decide.
Rotting before you've even died swept away by the
Fear inside, sleep, lie!
This is, something they don't tell anyone when
They're born but, once you think for yourself your test
Begins! If you try you can suffer less if you deny,
Looking at the sky, sky, sky!
You can read someone else's way of getting by ,but
You'll have to buy, buy buy!
It will soothe your pain, 'till you wake again
You will feel the reign, of the dark
They all believe in lies, lies, why?
Is it so hard for them to see, logical reality, we bleed,
We die, there's nothing once you've finished life.
Tearing knife, wrists are sliced, decreased time
Those who can't defy.
It is just a door that opens and swallows you inside.
You are just another one of us don't think you get to decide.
Don't think you'll wander somewhere when
You're rotting in the ground.
You'll be where there's nothing called taste,
Sight, feel or fucking sound.
Don't waste time, savour your life, it's all you have
As part of "man", now is the time to live for!
You are your guide for there's no-one but you
Who can tell you how to be.
I fear death so don't feel alone,
I don't judge those who cry.
We are all brothers in metal we already rule the world now
Sleep, you're free!
The colour of sleep
Fear shreds, your internal logistics system
You are just a pawn/fool, driven by a disturbance
inside your mindscape
It is, the consuming unknown that awaits you
And you, cry, for you cannot escape the ache
The void is nearly here
Nerves are, tested by a circumstance invented by the
Mere existence of our world
You can feel that there's something more than just
Progressing life while
You neighbour will deny, deny, deny!
You awaken and you're shaken by the dim reality that
Becomes you, and consumes your mind
That death is real and you will soon hold it in
An embrace so tight you can't let it go.
You want to believe in something higher
Social derision, blindfolded vision, need for decision
Nothings eternal, belief is infernal, you god is internal.
You may not exist soon so enjoy it while you can.
The power is in your hands in that
deciding moment of your sad life. Controlled by
A thing called time only fates forces can decide.
Rotting before you've even died swept away by the
Fear inside, sleep, lie!
This is, something they don't tell anyone when
They're born but, once you think for yourself your test
Begins! If you try you can suffer less if you deny,
Looking at the sky, sky, sky!
You can read someone else's way of getting by ,but
You'll have to buy, buy buy!
It will soothe your pain, 'till you wake again
You will feel the reign, of the dark
They all believe in lies, lies, why?
Is it so hard for them to see, logical reality, we bleed,
We die, there's nothing once you've finished life.
Tearing knife, wrists are sliced, decreased time
Those who can't defy.
It is just a door that opens and swallows you inside.
You are just another one of us don't think you get to decide.
Don't think you'll wander somewhere when
You're rotting in the ground.
You'll be where there's nothing called taste,
Sight, feel or fucking sound.
Don't waste time, savour your life, it's all you have
As part of "man", now is the time to live for!
You are your guide for there's no-one but you
Who can tell you how to be.
I fear death so don't feel alone,
I don't judge those who cry.
We are all brothers in metal we already rule the world now
Sleep, you're free!
The colour of sleep
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I agree with KillingArt626.
I like the like line where he says: "Don't waste time - savour your life - it's all you have"
It speaks for itself.