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"
Create the hate - Cause the cancer
Siphon life and paralyze
Enforce the peace - Give medication
Convincing man to compromise
A modern Christ - A new messiah
Born of war, from blackened sand
Anointed lord - By my disciples
Ten fists of nations I command
There'll be no golden future
Though they are trained to strive
Only enough to sate them, to keep the herd alive
[solo: JG]
Soon you shall know - I'll be revealed
You'll see the light behind my eyes
To touch the flame - To trust my presence
Make you feel safe inside my lies
And I'll speak the promise
And I'll bend your mind
And while I offer solace
I kill you from inside
Ten fists of hate - Ten tongues of lies
Rising child of Zion - when two suns shine in the sky
Thy Kingdom come by my command
Let the eye of Giza drive your souls into my hands
Ten fists of hate - Ten tongues of lies
My kingdom calling you - My will for all of you
Ten fists of nations call - I feel it dragging you down
[solo: BV, JG,BV]
And as the wealth of nations gather
And the cattle don their reins
In complete consolidation
A single move to end the game
With agony a symphony
With thunder at my hand
Send a Message to Our Fathers
That the earth is now in their command
And with no more hesitation
I let the comet fly
By my hand the earth awash with light
The End written in the sky
[solo: BV]
Ten fists of hate - Ten tongues of lies
Rising child of Zion - when two suns shine in the sky
Thy Kingdom come by my command
Let the eye of Giza shine:.
Siphon life and paralyze
Enforce the peace - Give medication
Convincing man to compromise
A modern Christ - A new messiah
Born of war, from blackened sand
Anointed lord - By my disciples
Ten fists of nations I command
There'll be no golden future
Though they are trained to strive
Only enough to sate them, to keep the herd alive
[solo: JG]
Soon you shall know - I'll be revealed
You'll see the light behind my eyes
To touch the flame - To trust my presence
Make you feel safe inside my lies
And I'll speak the promise
And I'll bend your mind
And while I offer solace
I kill you from inside
Ten fists of hate - Ten tongues of lies
Rising child of Zion - when two suns shine in the sky
Thy Kingdom come by my command
Let the eye of Giza drive your souls into my hands
Ten fists of hate - Ten tongues of lies
My kingdom calling you - My will for all of you
Ten fists of nations call - I feel it dragging you down
[solo: BV, JG,BV]
And as the wealth of nations gather
And the cattle don their reins
In complete consolidation
A single move to end the game
With agony a symphony
With thunder at my hand
Send a Message to Our Fathers
That the earth is now in their command
And with no more hesitation
I let the comet fly
By my hand the earth awash with light
The End written in the sky
[solo: BV]
Ten fists of hate - Ten tongues of lies
Rising child of Zion - when two suns shine in the sky
Thy Kingdom come by my command
Let the eye of Giza shine:.
Lyrics submitted by Ninji-X
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