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"
Aching to be near you
Wishing for a star
Helpless you can't change me
Will we always be apart
Resting by the seashore
I won't face the crowd now
Patience, why can't we try once more
My wounds will never heal
I love to sin, like I love you
Look at me, what do you see now
Do you like what I've become
Tell me, how should I feel now
Wonder if you feel the same
Never felt satisfaction
I have always needed more
See you as the main attraction
But I always close the door
So beautiful, I'm watching you day by day
The only one, I'm watching you fade away
We don't need this paradise
My sins too dark to sacrifice
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
Silence by the water
Trying to follow my heart now
Flirting with the devil's daughter
The edge of life is close now
Sinful, but feel no shame, no
I'm alive to meet you again
The water is no longer still now
Darling, it looks like this is the end
I love to sin, like I love you
So beautiful, I'm watching you day by day
The only one, I'm watching you fade away
We don't need this paradise
My sins too dark to sacrifice
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
So beautiful, I'm watching you day by day
The only one, I'm watching you fade away
We don't need this paradise
My sins too dark to sacrifice
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
Wishing for a star
Helpless you can't change me
Will we always be apart
Resting by the seashore
I won't face the crowd now
Patience, why can't we try once more
My wounds will never heal
I love to sin, like I love you
Look at me, what do you see now
Do you like what I've become
Tell me, how should I feel now
Wonder if you feel the same
Never felt satisfaction
I have always needed more
See you as the main attraction
But I always close the door
So beautiful, I'm watching you day by day
The only one, I'm watching you fade away
We don't need this paradise
My sins too dark to sacrifice
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
Silence by the water
Trying to follow my heart now
Flirting with the devil's daughter
The edge of life is close now
Sinful, but feel no shame, no
I'm alive to meet you again
The water is no longer still now
Darling, it looks like this is the end
I love to sin, like I love you
So beautiful, I'm watching you day by day
The only one, I'm watching you fade away
We don't need this paradise
My sins too dark to sacrifice
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
So beautiful, I'm watching you day by day
The only one, I'm watching you fade away
We don't need this paradise
My sins too dark to sacrifice
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
Lyrics submitted by TheKissofVanity
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