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 love for hate, lost in greed
The ocean of evil is too deep
Another day will turn into the night
It's so cold in that scene where´s the angel on her knees
to pray the God for a way into the light
Together we go crawling in lust of pain
In life all is rage we are sleeping away
Blood on our arms; God we bleed again
In truth all seems grey we are dying away
Dreams are broken all have been lies
The story of our life is done and buried in grave
The reason why the angels cry
is all those demons on her side
They cry 'til we are gone
Cold feelin' rain falling down on skin
Tears of our pain breaks the ice so thin
Forever we go reaching to the light
All we would say Aikanaan kaikki kuolemme pois
The ocean of evil is too deep
Another day will turn into the night
It's so cold in that scene where´s the angel on her knees
to pray the God for a way into the light
Together we go crawling in lust of pain
In life all is rage we are sleeping away
Blood on our arms; God we bleed again
In truth all seems grey we are dying away
Dreams are broken all have been lies
The story of our life is done and buried in grave
The reason why the angels cry
is all those demons on her side
They cry 'til we are gone
Cold feelin' rain falling down on skin
Tears of our pain breaks the ice so thin
Forever we go reaching to the light
All we would say Aikanaan kaikki kuolemme pois
Lyrics submitted by In_My_Dreams
Sleeping Away Lyrics as written by Mikko Heikkilae
Lyrics © editionPlus Verlags GmbH, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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