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"
These are the words that will tear you apart
(So I'm Sorry)
And these are the words that take you away.
(as two hands open doors.)
And these are just words they'll tear you apart.
(So I'm Sorry)
When no one here will say what needs to say
(Something serene to steal my life away.)
Climbing on the way up,
Sizing up the competition,
waiting for the right time,
To strike a chord and change your life.
It's this air and time that's bringing me home again.
A lame attempt at playing the part again now.
In a place you don't know.
And this stance as sturdy as leaves in a storm.
(Don't you ever think for one-second that
I Will Forget The Reasons That I Cried)
The premise and motive fueling blank faces.
The fool in a place you don't know.
In this place, you don't
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it. All over again.(steal my life away)
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it. All over again.(steal my life away)
Regret's how i spell your name.
In light of what you have done.
How can you not feel the same?
My love will fade with the sun.
(But this is not a product, )
As days go by, shed a tear.
I hate your face more than life.
(and we're not in competition, )
I'll fake a smile for (you) my dear.
So turn away.
These are the words that tore me apart.
(waiting for the right time, )
And these are the words that'll take me away.
(to strike a chord and your life)
I'm not in the business of faking to please vain opposers.
A dead legion of new, cloned followers.
You're cornered in a place you don't know.
In this world, you don't.
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it. All over again.(Steal My Life away)
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it. All over again.(Steal My Life Away
Climbing on the way up,
Sizing up the competition,
waiting for the right time,
To strike a chord and change your life.
(So I'm Sorry)
And these are the words that take you away.
(as two hands open doors.)
And these are just words they'll tear you apart.
(So I'm Sorry)
When no one here will say what needs to say
(Something serene to steal my life away.)
Climbing on the way up,
Sizing up the competition,
waiting for the right time,
To strike a chord and change your life.
It's this air and time that's bringing me home again.
A lame attempt at playing the part again now.
In a place you don't know.
And this stance as sturdy as leaves in a storm.
(Don't you ever think for one-second that
I Will Forget The Reasons That I Cried)
The premise and motive fueling blank faces.
The fool in a place you don't know.
In this place, you don't
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it. All over again.(steal my life away)
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it. All over again.(steal my life away)
Regret's how i spell your name.
In light of what you have done.
How can you not feel the same?
My love will fade with the sun.
(But this is not a product, )
As days go by, shed a tear.
I hate your face more than life.
(and we're not in competition, )
I'll fake a smile for (you) my dear.
So turn away.
These are the words that tore me apart.
(waiting for the right time, )
And these are the words that'll take me away.
(to strike a chord and your life)
I'm not in the business of faking to please vain opposers.
A dead legion of new, cloned followers.
You're cornered in a place you don't know.
In this world, you don't.
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it. All over again.(Steal My Life away)
New medicines should ease this pain.
They're the only ailment for it. All over again.(Steal My Life Away
Climbing on the way up,
Sizing up the competition,
waiting for the right time,
To strike a chord and change your life.
Lyrics submitted by xoEmergencyTDM
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