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"
from the seams
it comes apart
from parisian slums
to NOLA's gutted heart
up from the ground
with the sounds of running in the aftermath
the blowback and the fallout
understand
the implications of
a fucked cycle in decay
symptoms of decline
your privilege on parade
there comes a point
when the bow bends and breaks
when the fucked push back agains
the cradle of the state
the spirit of
'68
'56
'99
2006
so while you while you while away your days,
the underbelly's starin, the back-alley rage
growing down in the depths of the master's estate,
the communities dispersed where the levies break
you can hear the pins drop
because they're under the nails of those in bagram
and guantanamo bay - proxy satellite states
in every case, the themes are the same
the same themes remains
compelled to push back like never before
it comes apart
from parisian slums
to NOLA's gutted heart
up from the ground
with the sounds of running in the aftermath
the blowback and the fallout
understand
the implications of
a fucked cycle in decay
symptoms of decline
your privilege on parade
there comes a point
when the bow bends and breaks
when the fucked push back agains
the cradle of the state
the spirit of
'68
'56
'99
2006
so while you while you while away your days,
the underbelly's starin, the back-alley rage
growing down in the depths of the master's estate,
the communities dispersed where the levies break
you can hear the pins drop
because they're under the nails of those in bagram
and guantanamo bay - proxy satellite states
in every case, the themes are the same
the same themes remains
compelled to push back like never before
Lyrics submitted by inertial
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