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"
Take me to the pain, and all the way back again.
Taking me to the pain, and all the way back.
Life sums up in three words: Better than average.
It never comes easy; It's a savage world.
With damage attached, and doses of happiness
In between if you can survive the rest.
The lies that consume you.
(Pain!)
The pain shows you the way.
The feeling kills inside you.
(Pain!)
But you stay, knowing eventually,
The pain goes away.
But you have to get through it somehow.
I'll tell you when; The time isn't now.
I'm on the ground with 110 men, beating the life from me.
I shake off most of them, to reveal my shattered bones.
My stand, my decision, too; My reasons for it all.
I'll take the way of the others.
Straight back to the pain, and all the way back again.
Taking me to the pain, and all the way back.
Forget about taking, seeing past, understanding.
Letting it go, forgiving and forgetting, when we know
Everything we know and doing nothing about it.
We're just puppets with the hand of pain controlling from inside us and it
Takes us to the pain.
Knowing that they hurt us when they take us back around again.
Straight back to the pain, and all the way back.
Could I put it down on paper for you?
Then you're forcing me to suffer you.
I'm on the ground with 110 men, beating the life from me.
I shake off most of them, to reveal my shattered bones.
My stand, my decision, too; My reasons for it all.
I'll take the way of the others.
How alone we are, until the pain comes along.
How alone we are, until the pain comes along.
Just when you think it's never going to pass,
It feels so good at last.
Just when you think it's never going to pass,
It feels so good at last.
It feels so good at last.
It feels so good at last.
It feels so good at last.
I'm on the ground with 110 men, beating the life from me.
I shake off most of them, to reveal my shattered bones.
My stand, my decision, too; My reasons for it all.
I'll take the way of the others.
Pain!
Pain!
Pain!
Pain!
Taking me to the pain, and all the way back.
Life sums up in three words: Better than average.
It never comes easy; It's a savage world.
With damage attached, and doses of happiness
In between if you can survive the rest.
The lies that consume you.
(Pain!)
The pain shows you the way.
The feeling kills inside you.
(Pain!)
But you stay, knowing eventually,
The pain goes away.
But you have to get through it somehow.
I'll tell you when; The time isn't now.
I'm on the ground with 110 men, beating the life from me.
I shake off most of them, to reveal my shattered bones.
My stand, my decision, too; My reasons for it all.
I'll take the way of the others.
Straight back to the pain, and all the way back again.
Taking me to the pain, and all the way back.
Forget about taking, seeing past, understanding.
Letting it go, forgiving and forgetting, when we know
Everything we know and doing nothing about it.
We're just puppets with the hand of pain controlling from inside us and it
Takes us to the pain.
Knowing that they hurt us when they take us back around again.
Straight back to the pain, and all the way back.
Could I put it down on paper for you?
Then you're forcing me to suffer you.
I'm on the ground with 110 men, beating the life from me.
I shake off most of them, to reveal my shattered bones.
My stand, my decision, too; My reasons for it all.
I'll take the way of the others.
How alone we are, until the pain comes along.
How alone we are, until the pain comes along.
Just when you think it's never going to pass,
It feels so good at last.
Just when you think it's never going to pass,
It feels so good at last.
It feels so good at last.
It feels so good at last.
It feels so good at last.
I'm on the ground with 110 men, beating the life from me.
I shake off most of them, to reveal my shattered bones.
My stand, my decision, too; My reasons for it all.
I'll take the way of the others.
Pain!
Pain!
Pain!
Pain!
Lyrics submitted by TranceRufus
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Does anybody know what the two people (woman & man) are saying in the background? It's somewhere before the "How alone we are, until the pain comes along" - part. All I can understand is something like "It's annoying me" - [...] - "It's gonna stop." - [...] - "Then it's the end." Thanks!
Woman - "Otra vez?" (Again?)<br /> Man - "It's the only way to teach you"<br /> Woman - "Pero duele" (But it hurts)<br /> Man - "It gets better as it gets worse"<br /> Woman - " Y si no para?" ( And if it doesn't stop?)<br /> Man - "it's gonna stop."<br /> Woman - " Y si no para" (And if it doesn't stop?)<br /> Man - "Then it's the end"
thank you!! :D