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"
Wake up...can you hear that song?
don't panic, this peaceful moment won't last too long
i see now that we are nothing but arrogant, still frames of a holocaust...
and you bleed from your mouth with false policies...and i've had enough
so when will we recognize the truth that lies in lies...
you listen to a book written by an old fortune teller who choked on his words and died
and so the earth will continue to cry...and i'll ask myself why...
it's been a banner year for conservative compassion...
it's been a banner year for nobody taking action.
whoever said that when the world grows apart, we can choose how everybody lives
and whoever said that, in fact should be shot and killed
such a tragic way of thinking i bestow...
but i learned from the best...afterall, you taught me everything you know.
how come we have to teach everyone who they can love?
i thought the only natural thing in progression is...possession of the human heart
cupid shot us all with bullets, he ran out of arrows a long time ago
so...i hope you choke on your malicious blood and get lost finding your soul
because when...it comes down to it...we are all made the same way
and now that i can finally breathe with my own lungs, i hate this hell that we've created
and all of the above.
it's been a banner year for conservative compassion...
it's been a banner year for nobody taking action.
whoever said that when the world grows apart, we can choose how everybody lives
and whoever said that, in fact should be shot and killed
such a tragic way of thinking i bestow...
but i learned from the best...afterall, you taught me everything you know.
i hate you and that plastic halo floating around your head...
just wait for the inevitable movement...
and we'll put it...we'll put it....we'll place it around your neck
such a tragic way of thinking i bestow...
but i learned from the best...you taught me everything...you know?
don't panic, this peaceful moment won't last too long
i see now that we are nothing but arrogant, still frames of a holocaust...
and you bleed from your mouth with false policies...and i've had enough
so when will we recognize the truth that lies in lies...
you listen to a book written by an old fortune teller who choked on his words and died
and so the earth will continue to cry...and i'll ask myself why...
it's been a banner year for conservative compassion...
it's been a banner year for nobody taking action.
whoever said that when the world grows apart, we can choose how everybody lives
and whoever said that, in fact should be shot and killed
such a tragic way of thinking i bestow...
but i learned from the best...afterall, you taught me everything you know.
how come we have to teach everyone who they can love?
i thought the only natural thing in progression is...possession of the human heart
cupid shot us all with bullets, he ran out of arrows a long time ago
so...i hope you choke on your malicious blood and get lost finding your soul
because when...it comes down to it...we are all made the same way
and now that i can finally breathe with my own lungs, i hate this hell that we've created
and all of the above.
it's been a banner year for conservative compassion...
it's been a banner year for nobody taking action.
whoever said that when the world grows apart, we can choose how everybody lives
and whoever said that, in fact should be shot and killed
such a tragic way of thinking i bestow...
but i learned from the best...afterall, you taught me everything you know.
i hate you and that plastic halo floating around your head...
just wait for the inevitable movement...
and we'll put it...we'll put it....we'll place it around your neck
such a tragic way of thinking i bestow...
but i learned from the best...you taught me everything...you know?
Lyrics submitted by LPSpunk
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