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"
(Chorus)
The touch of death is coming, there’s nowhere to escape
Your life is slowly fading into your hollow grave
You can not be saved
You can not be saved
(Blaze)
There was once a man that couldn’t die
In fact to this day that man is still alive
He lives in the cosmos on the edge of time
Little kids have heard of him, in nursery rhymes (he’s the dead)
But he walks among society carrying a sickle and a shotgun
With a touch of death, and death’s hands
He’s a young, dying, unstoppable, dead man, you’ll know
(Chorus)
The touch of death is coming
you’ll know
There’s nowhere to escape
you’ll know
Your life is slowly fading
you’ll know
Into your hollow grave
you’ll know
You can not be saved
You can not be saved
When death is upon us, come with me right now, and don’t be afraid
I’ve been alive for many centuries
Watched new kings replace old kings
Seen empires overthrown with war
Disease and sickness, for rich or poor
Armies form and prepare to fight
Damn what a battle it lasted twenty nights
19 days, 12 B.C. to think nobody ever heard of me
I’m in the afterlife that’s where I grew
Watched a whole lot on a thang or two
Come to find out their afraid of you
If you don’t die exactly the way they do
They knew I wasn’t right from the start
With jet-black blood to match my black heart
Found out quick that the world was cold
'Fore anyone even had a soul, understand
(Chorus)
The touch of death is coming, understand
There’s nowhere to escape, understand
Your life is slowly fading, understand
Into your hollow grave, understand
You can not be saved
You can not be saved
When death is upon us, come with me right now, and don’t be afraid
Colton Grundy past life experience
Different time my friend, delirious
All of those memories just blur together
So understand sometimes I don’t know no better
But I’m kcab (back)
But I really ain’t go nowhere
I sit here surrounded in dark countin' dead
Looking for someone to give this pain too
Looking for someone to feel the way that I do, like me
(Chorus)
The touch of death is coming
Like me
There’s nowhere to escape
Like me
Your life is slowly fading
Like me
Into your hollow grave
Like me
You can not be saved
You can not be saved
When death is upon us come with me right now and don’t be afraid
Hey man! He done fucked yo' ride up!
The touch of death is coming, there’s nowhere to escape
Your life is slowly fading into your hollow grave
You can not be saved
You can not be saved
(Blaze)
There was once a man that couldn’t die
In fact to this day that man is still alive
He lives in the cosmos on the edge of time
Little kids have heard of him, in nursery rhymes (he’s the dead)
But he walks among society carrying a sickle and a shotgun
With a touch of death, and death’s hands
He’s a young, dying, unstoppable, dead man, you’ll know
(Chorus)
The touch of death is coming
you’ll know
There’s nowhere to escape
you’ll know
Your life is slowly fading
you’ll know
Into your hollow grave
you’ll know
You can not be saved
You can not be saved
When death is upon us, come with me right now, and don’t be afraid
I’ve been alive for many centuries
Watched new kings replace old kings
Seen empires overthrown with war
Disease and sickness, for rich or poor
Armies form and prepare to fight
Damn what a battle it lasted twenty nights
19 days, 12 B.C. to think nobody ever heard of me
I’m in the afterlife that’s where I grew
Watched a whole lot on a thang or two
Come to find out their afraid of you
If you don’t die exactly the way they do
They knew I wasn’t right from the start
With jet-black blood to match my black heart
Found out quick that the world was cold
'Fore anyone even had a soul, understand
(Chorus)
The touch of death is coming, understand
There’s nowhere to escape, understand
Your life is slowly fading, understand
Into your hollow grave, understand
You can not be saved
You can not be saved
When death is upon us, come with me right now, and don’t be afraid
Colton Grundy past life experience
Different time my friend, delirious
All of those memories just blur together
So understand sometimes I don’t know no better
But I’m kcab (back)
But I really ain’t go nowhere
I sit here surrounded in dark countin' dead
Looking for someone to give this pain too
Looking for someone to feel the way that I do, like me
(Chorus)
The touch of death is coming
Like me
There’s nowhere to escape
Like me
Your life is slowly fading
Like me
Into your hollow grave
Like me
You can not be saved
You can not be saved
When death is upon us come with me right now and don’t be afraid
Hey man! He done fucked yo' ride up!
Lyrics submitted by th1rt3en
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