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"
To make thee mine
I cast a net as wide as I am free
Line by line
Erase the schemes that I have drawn to be
There's no fear anymore
Crystalline the truth, assumes the breeze
There's no fear anymore
Burn the bridge outside
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
If I can't live without you
I feel alone walking home All by myself
I've never chased a brighter sun than you'll become
I mistook you for a trust
Invocations I must dust off
Fresh bouquets to playfully collect
Even though you've seen the show
I've saved the best for last
A cannonball shot stern to bow
To warn the crowd
I fall in love from my guts
My arms are twined to switch
And in repose, a silent rose
Burns the bridge outside
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
To make thee mine
I call upon the wisdom of my age
Blow by blow
Chase the bees of the death song's wings
There's no crying anymore
Crystalline, the bridges burn outside
Stitches will all come undone
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
What comes must all come out at once
Of us
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
I've never chased a brighter sun than you'll become
What comes will all, the breaking dawn
But I'm on its side
I cast a net as wide as I am free
Line by line
Erase the schemes that I have drawn to be
There's no fear anymore
Crystalline the truth, assumes the breeze
There's no fear anymore
Burn the bridge outside
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
If I can't live without you
I feel alone walking home All by myself
I've never chased a brighter sun than you'll become
I mistook you for a trust
Invocations I must dust off
Fresh bouquets to playfully collect
Even though you've seen the show
I've saved the best for last
A cannonball shot stern to bow
To warn the crowd
I fall in love from my guts
My arms are twined to switch
And in repose, a silent rose
Burns the bridge outside
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
To make thee mine
I call upon the wisdom of my age
Blow by blow
Chase the bees of the death song's wings
There's no crying anymore
Crystalline, the bridges burn outside
Stitches will all come undone
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
What comes must all come out at once
Of us
If I'm gonna live
If I'm gonna live
Without you
I've never chased a brighter sun than you'll become
What comes will all, the breaking dawn
But I'm on its side
Lyrics submitted by ZenfullTangerine
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