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"
Do you think that you're made of gold?
Invincible?
You think you can handle it?
You will learn from this
I'm telling you, friend
This is something worth fighting for
Does it not seem contradicting
To sit back and watch them take more?
Caught like a deer in their headlights
You're stuck now, you're bound by your fear
I suggest you break free
Or you'll forever be damned here
We were merely degenerates waiting for you
To come sweep us off of our feet
They keep marching on, spilling blood like savages
Taking lives while your cigarette burns, burns
You can't tell me, my friend
That that wasn't worth dying for
Gave it all and received nothing
May as well have let them take more
Dig deep, find the courage to speak
Are you really still bound by your fear?
This is all just a dream now
You can't speak and you're damned here
We are merely degenerates waiting for you
To come sweep us off of our feet
They keep marching on, spilling blood like savages
Taking lives while your cigarette burns, burns
This is our fight for freedom
This is our way of saying
This is our day
We've been waiting
For this one day all our lives
This is nothing short of predictable
Stop holding your head down, give it up
And get a hold of yourself now or give it up
You're like a deer in the headlights
You've given up to save your life
We've been waiting
And we're waiting all our lives
This is nothing short of predictable
Stop holding your head down, give it up
Get a hold of yourself now or give it up
You're like a deer in the headlights
You've given up to save your life
(Find the will to save your life)
Invincible?
You think you can handle it?
You will learn from this
I'm telling you, friend
This is something worth fighting for
Does it not seem contradicting
To sit back and watch them take more?
Caught like a deer in their headlights
You're stuck now, you're bound by your fear
I suggest you break free
Or you'll forever be damned here
We were merely degenerates waiting for you
To come sweep us off of our feet
They keep marching on, spilling blood like savages
Taking lives while your cigarette burns, burns
You can't tell me, my friend
That that wasn't worth dying for
Gave it all and received nothing
May as well have let them take more
Dig deep, find the courage to speak
Are you really still bound by your fear?
This is all just a dream now
You can't speak and you're damned here
We are merely degenerates waiting for you
To come sweep us off of our feet
They keep marching on, spilling blood like savages
Taking lives while your cigarette burns, burns
This is our fight for freedom
This is our way of saying
This is our day
We've been waiting
For this one day all our lives
This is nothing short of predictable
Stop holding your head down, give it up
And get a hold of yourself now or give it up
You're like a deer in the headlights
You've given up to save your life
We've been waiting
And we're waiting all our lives
This is nothing short of predictable
Stop holding your head down, give it up
Get a hold of yourself now or give it up
You're like a deer in the headlights
You've given up to save your life
(Find the will to save your life)
Lyrics submitted by JackMcCoke
Degenerates Lyrics as written by Chad Lane Crawford Pouyan Sean Afkary
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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