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"
(One, two, three, four)
Is this the way I want them seeing me?
Please, leave your memories at the door
Why has the world gone off and deserted me?
Why, there's just no room inside these walls, oh, oh
You want it all but did you want it tonight?
Oh, you don't remember as you wait by the light
Oh, can you see what you've been asking of me?
With the turn of this knife, know I will take your life
This ain't a crime, no, I'm calling for mercy, oh, oh, whoa
Now it's time, please pray for me, oh, oh, oh
There will be justice in murder
There will be justice in murder
Now you've been for me what no other could be
Will I now grow old, to forget all those?
Blow off sorrow, goodbye tomorrow
There is no worse than this curse they've given me
This mule's seen its end in love and war
I'll wish you the best when I'm lost to eternity
Now do what you will, so it hurts no more, oh, oh, whoa
You want it all but did you want it tonight?
Oh, you don't remember as you wait by the light
Oh, can you see what you've been asking of me?
With the turn of this knife, know I will take your life
This ain't no crime, no, I'm calling for mercy, oh, oh, whoa
Now it's time, please pray for me, oh, oh, oh
There will be justice in murder
There will be justice in murder
Now you've been for me what no other could be
Will I now grow old, to forget all those?
Blow off sorrow, goodbye tomorrow
There will be justice in murder
There will be justice in murder
Now you've been for me what no other could be
Will I now grow old, to forget all those?
Blow off sorrow, goodbye tomorrow
There will be justice in murder, oh, oh, no
There will be justice in murder
Now you've been for me what no other could be
Will I now grow old, to forget all those?
Blow off sorrow, goodbye tomorrow
Is this the way I want them seeing me?
Please, leave your memories at the door
Why has the world gone off and deserted me?
Why, there's just no room inside these walls, oh, oh
You want it all but did you want it tonight?
Oh, you don't remember as you wait by the light
Oh, can you see what you've been asking of me?
With the turn of this knife, know I will take your life
This ain't a crime, no, I'm calling for mercy, oh, oh, whoa
Now it's time, please pray for me, oh, oh, oh
There will be justice in murder
There will be justice in murder
Now you've been for me what no other could be
Will I now grow old, to forget all those?
Blow off sorrow, goodbye tomorrow
There is no worse than this curse they've given me
This mule's seen its end in love and war
I'll wish you the best when I'm lost to eternity
Now do what you will, so it hurts no more, oh, oh, whoa
You want it all but did you want it tonight?
Oh, you don't remember as you wait by the light
Oh, can you see what you've been asking of me?
With the turn of this knife, know I will take your life
This ain't no crime, no, I'm calling for mercy, oh, oh, whoa
Now it's time, please pray for me, oh, oh, oh
There will be justice in murder
There will be justice in murder
Now you've been for me what no other could be
Will I now grow old, to forget all those?
Blow off sorrow, goodbye tomorrow
There will be justice in murder
There will be justice in murder
Now you've been for me what no other could be
Will I now grow old, to forget all those?
Blow off sorrow, goodbye tomorrow
There will be justice in murder, oh, oh, no
There will be justice in murder
Now you've been for me what no other could be
Will I now grow old, to forget all those?
Blow off sorrow, goodbye tomorrow
Lyrics submitted by iforgot, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Justice in Murder Lyrics as written by Travis Stever Claudio Sanchez
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yeah this is probably my second fav song after the end complete. very epic . . . i just picture claudio standing over wilhelm with a knife, "there is no worse curse than you've given me"