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"
Against the wall, they see you
No where to run, nowhere to hide
Hero in mask, the cracks are showing
A faceless god to shade to perfect light
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
Savior or fool, the mystery
Fades into the cruel shade night
The broken disguise, can not comprehend
What was and will be
Until the very end
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
Yeah!
Oh, when the north wind steep
That is when we'll meet again
Oh, when the shadows keep
In the twilight I'll descend
Good and evil
Never ends
Your just a means to an end!
Against the wall, they see you
No where to run, nowhere to hide
Hero in mask, the cracks are showing
A faceless god to shade to perfect light
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
Savior or fool, the mystery
Fades into the cruel shade night
The broken disguise, can not comprehend
What was and will be
Until the very end
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
Against the wall, they see you
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
Hero in mask, the cracks are showing
A faceless god to shade to perfect light
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
Savior or fool, the mystery
Fades into the cruel shade night
The broken disguise, can not comprehend
What was and will be
Until the very end
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
No where to run, nowhere to hide
Hero in mask, the cracks are showing
A faceless god to shade to perfect light
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
Savior or fool, the mystery
Fades into the cruel shade night
The broken disguise, can not comprehend
What was and will be
Until the very end
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
Yeah!
Oh, when the north wind steep
That is when we'll meet again
Oh, when the shadows keep
In the twilight I'll descend
Good and evil
Never ends
Your just a means to an end!
Against the wall, they see you
No where to run, nowhere to hide
Hero in mask, the cracks are showing
A faceless god to shade to perfect light
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
Savior or fool, the mystery
Fades into the cruel shade night
The broken disguise, can not comprehend
What was and will be
Until the very end
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
Against the wall, they see you
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
Hero in mask, the cracks are showing
A faceless god to shade to perfect light
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
Savior or fool, the mystery
Fades into the cruel shade night
The broken disguise, can not comprehend
What was and will be
Until the very end
Wounds of hate that pierce so deep
They never die
Oh, my revenge is bitter sweet
Lost in the night
Wandering alone
Try as I might to escape the fight
It never lets me go
Oh no, oh no, I've got to find a way
A way, a way, a way to rise above it all
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