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"
We should scream, 'Thank You' with every waking breath
And cry 'Mercy, Mercy' at every days end
Yet we remain quiet and comfortable in our A to be lives
We're so quiet and comfortable in our A to be lives
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep, sweep, sweep our sleep, sleep, sleeping hearts
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep our sleeping hearts
It is then when we will cry for forgiveness
Yet not understand the weight of our words
Nor the depth of his love but he will deliver, failure is beneath him
And yes, he will deliver, failure's not an option
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep, sweep, sweep our sleep, sleep, sleeping hearts
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep our sleep
Wake, wake the complacent
Hey you, yeah, you
And will the weak of mind is to warn the
Wake, wake the complacent
Hey you, yeah, you
And will the weak of mind is to warn the w-w-wicked
It's quite urgent
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep, sweep, sweep our sleep, sleep, sleeping hearts
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep our sleeping hearts
Until that day I will laugh, dance and sing
For I know that, that day is soon to be seen
And cry 'Mercy, Mercy' at every days end
Yet we remain quiet and comfortable in our A to be lives
We're so quiet and comfortable in our A to be lives
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep, sweep, sweep our sleep, sleep, sleeping hearts
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep our sleeping hearts
It is then when we will cry for forgiveness
Yet not understand the weight of our words
Nor the depth of his love but he will deliver, failure is beneath him
And yes, he will deliver, failure's not an option
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep, sweep, sweep our sleep, sleep, sleeping hearts
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep our sleep
Wake, wake the complacent
Hey you, yeah, you
And will the weak of mind is to warn the
Wake, wake the complacent
Hey you, yeah, you
And will the weak of mind is to warn the w-w-wicked
It's quite urgent
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep, sweep, sweep our sleep, sleep, sleeping hearts
Our complacency won't last much longer
An urgency will sweep our sleeping hearts
Until that day I will laugh, dance and sing
For I know that, that day is soon to be seen
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This is a great song in which helps motivate me in many ways. Here is My Interpretation of Days End by Ivoryline:
I think this song's meaning is that We as Christians are thankful to God for a new day of life, yet what are we doing in our actions to show God we love him? And when we almost experience death or something tragic we thank God but we don't do anything to change our lives in the way we live and evangelize. We are sitting around enjoying our lives while there is a world outside of our door that is going to Hell, and we act like everything is ok.
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I'll give my verse to verse interpretation on of this song:
Our complacency won't last much longer. (Meaning our sitting around just enjoying our lives and not going out to help save a World going to Hell won't last, cause God is coming soon and we need to tell those who are lost about God's Love and Saving Grace.) An urgency will sweep, sweep, sweep or sleep, sleep, sleeping hearts. (Something will happen in our lives to make us wake up and move to evangelize and live a Christ-like life.) Our complacency won't last much longer. An urgency will sweep. (Same as description above.)
We should scream "thank you" with every waking breath. (Meaning God is being patient with us and we should thank him for life.) And cry "mercy! mercy" at every day's end. (We thank God for this life but most of the time we aren't being sincere.) Yet we remain quiet and comfortable in our A to B lives. We're so quiet and comfortable in our A to B lives. (Meaning we are living our days the same with no change. We are too comfortable and not taking charge when there is a world that is going to Hell.)
Our complacency won't last much longer. An urgency will sweep, sweep, sweep or sleep, sleep, sleeping hearts. Our complacency won't last much longer. An urgency will sweep. (Same as above)
It is then when we will cry for forgiveness, yet not understand the weight of our words nor the depth of His love. (When the day comes for us to be judged on the day Jesus returns we will cry for forgiveness but not know the weight of what we are saying because we were never that concerned, only now when we need the forgiveness.) But he will deliver. Failure is beneath him. (God will deliver his promise of life to us, even though we failed him) Yes, he will deliver. Failure's not an option. (God will deliver us from death and give us life because failure isn't an opinion when he gave his son to die.)
Our complacency won't last much longer. An urgency will sweep, sweep, sweep or sleep, sleep, sleeping hearts. Our complacency won't last much longer. An urgency will sweep. (Same as before)
Wake, wake the complacent. (People who are set in there ways need to be awakened and need to take charge.) Hey you, yeah you. (The listener, we need to take charge and live for Christ) And will the weak of mind to warn the wicked. (Us, who are weak and not living for Christ need to warn those who are on their way to an eternal life of death/suffering/Separation from God in Hell.) Wake! Wake the complacent. Hey you, yeah you, and will the weak of mind to warn the wicked, so wicked.
Wake the complacent and will the weak, and let's not forget to warn the...
Our complacency won't last much longer. An urgency will sweep. Until that day I will laugh dance and sing, for I know that, that day is soon to be seen. (God is coming and we need to be ready and spread His Word)
Thanks for reading what I think this song means, it may not be perfect but I tried my best to make it understandable. Thanks! And if you have time check out my YouTube Channel where I will be making a video on this site to lead people to this site so they can understand the songs in Christian music, here is the link: YOuTUbe.com/TubewithGod3Fold. SHare me with friends and family so we can start something BIG! Thanks! :D