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 feel lost
do you ever get that feeling?
it's perpetual for me
it's perpetual for me
I die for love
each time I feel your breath breathing
I try to hold my own
I try to hold my own breath
when you sleep beside me
I count the tiles in the ceiling
one hundred twenty two
one hundred twenty three
when you sleep beside me
I hear your falling heart crashing
I try to pick up the debris
I try to pick up the debris
so here we are
do you ever get that feeling?
we're just not meant to be
set me as a seal on your arm and on your heart
they say that love is strong as death
and death will do us part
set me as a seal on your heart and on your arm
they say that jealousy is deep as the grave
that is what it mends on
I hold my breath each time you breathe
I hold my breath each time you breathe
each time you breathe, I die for love
set me as a seal on your heart and on your arm
they say no water and no flame can tear us apart
jealousy flashes fast as fire and leaves a cruel burning heart
they say no waters can put out such a flame
no fire could drown it
I hold my breath each time you breathe
I hold my breath each time you breathe
each time you breathe, I die for love
passion is relentless as an unknown lover burning cold
I hold my breath, devotion ceases me
jealousy ripples like a river underneath me
do you ever get that feeling?
it's perpetual for me
it's perpetual for me
I die for love
each time I feel your breath breathing
I try to hold my own
I try to hold my own breath
when you sleep beside me
I count the tiles in the ceiling
one hundred twenty two
one hundred twenty three
when you sleep beside me
I hear your falling heart crashing
I try to pick up the debris
I try to pick up the debris
so here we are
do you ever get that feeling?
we're just not meant to be
set me as a seal on your arm and on your heart
they say that love is strong as death
and death will do us part
set me as a seal on your heart and on your arm
they say that jealousy is deep as the grave
that is what it mends on
I hold my breath each time you breathe
I hold my breath each time you breathe
each time you breathe, I die for love
set me as a seal on your heart and on your arm
they say no water and no flame can tear us apart
jealousy flashes fast as fire and leaves a cruel burning heart
they say no waters can put out such a flame
no fire could drown it
I hold my breath each time you breathe
I hold my breath each time you breathe
each time you breathe, I die for love
passion is relentless as an unknown lover burning cold
I hold my breath, devotion ceases me
jealousy ripples like a river underneath me
Lyrics submitted by erstechen
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Some of these lyrics are wrong. It's "Jealousy flashes fast as fire, love's cruel, burning pyre" And.
"Passion is relentless as the underworld and love a burning coal I hold my breath, devotion seizes me And jealousy ripples like a river underneath me"
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The woman's verses, especially the parts about jealousy, hint that he's been unfaithful somehow but she refuses to let go of him because she'd rather die for love 'holding her breath' than break the 'sacred seals on her arm and heart'. She's yearning for him to display that passion about their love again, but she's fighting against the obvious realization they're not good together anymore.