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 would like to burn this down
I would like to burn this down
I would like to see it melt in yellow and observe a cloud of blackness rise
Watch it rise as it is wrath himself
Watch it rise
Crows will flee the scene as if to remind me how long it's been since I have seen a dove
Since I have seen a dove
Melt in yellow as I do
Exhaustion and mother of tribulation.
Wound by wound
I torture myself
Wound by wound, I will persevere
Whiteness, present yourself, as I know you are the sky and anchor of my being
What we've known is like cigarettes
Formaldehyde fingers
I would like to burn this down
I would like to see it melt in yellow and observe a cloud of blackness rise
Watch it rise as it is wrath himself
Watch it rise
Crows will flee the scene as if to remind me how long it's been since I have seen a dove
Since I have seen a dove
Melt in yellow as I do
Exhaustion and mother of tribulation.
Wound by wound
I torture myself
Wound by wound, I will persevere
Whiteness, present yourself, as I know you are the sky and anchor of my being
What we've known is like cigarettes
Formaldehyde fingers
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