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"
In this darkness am I faithless
Without your lips I live without
Am I heartless am I soulless
Without your lips I live without
I'm so hollow when will we wake up
I'm so hollow am I confessed to die
I'm so hollow when will we wake up
I'm so hollow will this dream end tonight
We walked through the rain
And the night became silent
Sleep fell over the sky
And I swear I've never seen anything so beautifully dark
In this silence and this violence
Without your lips I live without
Look I'm lifeless look I'm soulless
Without your lips I live without
I'm so hollow when will we wake up
I'm so hollow am I confessed to die
I'm so hollow when will we wake up
I'm so hollow will this dream end tonight
This darkness am I voiceless
Without your lips I live without
I'm heartless I'm soulless
Without your lips I live without
Without your lips I live without
Am I heartless am I soulless
Without your lips I live without
I'm so hollow when will we wake up
I'm so hollow am I confessed to die
I'm so hollow when will we wake up
I'm so hollow will this dream end tonight
We walked through the rain
And the night became silent
Sleep fell over the sky
And I swear I've never seen anything so beautifully dark
In this silence and this violence
Without your lips I live without
Look I'm lifeless look I'm soulless
Without your lips I live without
I'm so hollow when will we wake up
I'm so hollow am I confessed to die
I'm so hollow when will we wake up
I'm so hollow will this dream end tonight
This darkness am I voiceless
Without your lips I live without
I'm heartless I'm soulless
Without your lips I live without
Lyrics submitted by DearVanityx
Darkness Lyrics as written by John William Callis Adrian Wright
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, BMG Rights Management
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I think this song is about him trying to find himself, but he needs the one he loves to help him. He is so lost that he can't find his own way out, it hurts him soo much. The pain is so bad, since he is so lost within himself, that he feels now that it is a dream, he wants the pain to go away.
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It could be a break up where the girl left him, but he gave her EVERYTHING, thus him being heartless, and souless, because he has no more compassion for anyone because he was hurt so bad.
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Yeah, good song indeed. They didn't play the song on the Taste of Chaos Show in Munich, sad, sad! I'd like to hear the whole audience to shout the final 'ohh ohh ohh'-part of the song :-) Maybe next time. I'm not sure, what this song is about, but the middle part ('we walked through...') is great, it gives a good picture of some kind of relationship.
It's about a part of him that is so dark it scares him, and that he has to struggle to fight against it on a daily basis... Well at least that's what he said in an interview with Kerrang! I think it does have something with needing someone to be there to help him too though.