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"
You brought this on yourself
The lack of a barrel forced into your mouths
Proves your actions won't be without retribution
Break down
Bloodshed, a sign of weakness
Just know you'll get what you deserve
Who do you think that you are?
Barring your teeth like the smile of the one with a blade in his sleeve
The thorns that line your back are all it took to slit the arms that took you in
Just who do you think that you are?
Suicide king dying to be seen
An image to build, cover you up
The damage is done
Just let them fight fight fight
So they never have to face themselves
40 days, it will all be over
You'll vanish with the flood
Bloodshed, a sign of weakness
Just know you'll get what you deserve
Who do you think that you are?
Barring your teeth like the smile of the one with a blade in his sleeve
The thorns that line your back are all it took to slit the arms that took you in
Just who do you think that you are?
Suicide king dying to be seen
An image to build, cover you up
The damage is done
Just let them fight fight fight
So they never have to face themselves
Before you're too far gone
What will it take to drop your arms and learn
It's not too late
Burdened with the weight of your disguise, you'll sink like a stone
And collapse from neglect with the rest of your unknowns
Face yourself
Coward you can't face yourself
Coward you can't face yourself
You know it never fit, so come on
What will it take, to drop your arms and learn
It's not too late for giving up and letting go, growing up
Before you are you're too far gone
The lack of a barrel forced into your mouths
Proves your actions won't be without retribution
Break down
Bloodshed, a sign of weakness
Just know you'll get what you deserve
Who do you think that you are?
Barring your teeth like the smile of the one with a blade in his sleeve
The thorns that line your back are all it took to slit the arms that took you in
Just who do you think that you are?
Suicide king dying to be seen
An image to build, cover you up
The damage is done
Just let them fight fight fight
So they never have to face themselves
40 days, it will all be over
You'll vanish with the flood
Bloodshed, a sign of weakness
Just know you'll get what you deserve
Who do you think that you are?
Barring your teeth like the smile of the one with a blade in his sleeve
The thorns that line your back are all it took to slit the arms that took you in
Just who do you think that you are?
Suicide king dying to be seen
An image to build, cover you up
The damage is done
Just let them fight fight fight
So they never have to face themselves
Before you're too far gone
What will it take to drop your arms and learn
It's not too late
Burdened with the weight of your disguise, you'll sink like a stone
And collapse from neglect with the rest of your unknowns
Face yourself
Coward you can't face yourself
Coward you can't face yourself
You know it never fit, so come on
What will it take, to drop your arms and learn
It's not too late for giving up and letting go, growing up
Before you are you're too far gone
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love this song... amazing
What a powerful way to kick off a kickass album..
Sounds like he's saying to all those who are thinking of taking the easy way out and killing themselves that it isn't worth it and there is nothing to prove. You will be forgotten but if you stay alive you can make a difference and be remembered.