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"
I have a lack of shared thought, “Oh, so just let me go”
You see this right here? “ yea ,well I just don’t know”
I sit and think, you talk and write
You hope and wish to change my mind
It’s not about who’s wrong or right so when ya gonna realize?
But I can’t conflict I know all too well
I’d rather fuel a fire then confine all the things I felt
We both lost faith in a world where dreams and moral are killed my common men
Our hearts scarred with no hopes of recovery
My friend I’ll stand with you until our destruction we’re gonna be just fine…
Put passion to this pen in hopes of something beautiful
But there’s nothing pure that ever could or ever would come of this
What’s wrong with your head? What are you thinking in your bed real late at times?
Well I've made a friend hope so who’s yours? And I
I don’t think you know, what it’s like to own the day to have it stripped in a single breath
Half smoked to the ashtray
And I don’t think you know what it’s like to trust in bond
Put faith in flesh, go against the rest so I’ll stand true to this…. song
Watch…
Watch you cry blood (from your cheek to the floor)
Watch you tear blood (from your cheek to the floor)
Watch you cry blood (from your cheek to the floor)
Watch…
There’s something wrong with me, yea desperately wrong
Sirens set go, burning in concrete and I didn’t even pray for her
Where’s my heart? Where’s my compassion?
Just because I spit unity or mutual respect don’t label me pacifist
Because I’d be the first to lay arms with your kind …I’d be the first
But is it worth holding a candle when the flame keeps slipping?
This burden is getting awful heavy, my back is breaking, nails slipping , awaiting the end
So I’ll….
Put passion to this pen in hopes of something beautiful
But there’s nothing pure that ever could or ever would come of this
What’s wrong with your head? What are you thinking in your bed real late at times?
Well I've made a friend hope so who’s yours? And I
I don’t think you know, what it’s like to own the day to have it stripped in a single breath
Half smoked to the ashtray
And I don’t think you know what it’s like to trust in bond
Put faith in flesh, go against the rest so I’ll
Took ethics of an underground culture and instilled them in an MTV society.
Rejected an elitist’s model of thinking, Fuck'em we don’t need them anyway.
Tore down a proud flag of autonomy, how it meant so much to me.
Another number in an infinite equation, Fuck'em we don’t need them anyway!
You see this right here? “ yea ,well I just don’t know”
I sit and think, you talk and write
You hope and wish to change my mind
It’s not about who’s wrong or right so when ya gonna realize?
But I can’t conflict I know all too well
I’d rather fuel a fire then confine all the things I felt
We both lost faith in a world where dreams and moral are killed my common men
Our hearts scarred with no hopes of recovery
My friend I’ll stand with you until our destruction we’re gonna be just fine…
Put passion to this pen in hopes of something beautiful
But there’s nothing pure that ever could or ever would come of this
What’s wrong with your head? What are you thinking in your bed real late at times?
Well I've made a friend hope so who’s yours? And I
I don’t think you know, what it’s like to own the day to have it stripped in a single breath
Half smoked to the ashtray
And I don’t think you know what it’s like to trust in bond
Put faith in flesh, go against the rest so I’ll stand true to this…. song
Watch…
Watch you cry blood (from your cheek to the floor)
Watch you tear blood (from your cheek to the floor)
Watch you cry blood (from your cheek to the floor)
Watch…
There’s something wrong with me, yea desperately wrong
Sirens set go, burning in concrete and I didn’t even pray for her
Where’s my heart? Where’s my compassion?
Just because I spit unity or mutual respect don’t label me pacifist
Because I’d be the first to lay arms with your kind …I’d be the first
But is it worth holding a candle when the flame keeps slipping?
This burden is getting awful heavy, my back is breaking, nails slipping , awaiting the end
So I’ll….
Put passion to this pen in hopes of something beautiful
But there’s nothing pure that ever could or ever would come of this
What’s wrong with your head? What are you thinking in your bed real late at times?
Well I've made a friend hope so who’s yours? And I
I don’t think you know, what it’s like to own the day to have it stripped in a single breath
Half smoked to the ashtray
And I don’t think you know what it’s like to trust in bond
Put faith in flesh, go against the rest so I’ll
Took ethics of an underground culture and instilled them in an MTV society.
Rejected an elitist’s model of thinking, Fuck'em we don’t need them anyway.
Tore down a proud flag of autonomy, how it meant so much to me.
Another number in an infinite equation, Fuck'em we don’t need them anyway!
Lyrics submitted by beforethefog
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