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"
We are livin' in a police state
More than your rights at stake
Right Now
I'm takin' it
Heaters got my town
Infiltratin' the air yeah
Locking down the masses
Even to scare ya
We don't have to deal with this shit
To serve and protect yo I ain't buying it.
Do it for the power
They're abusing the glory
Strip away the badge
And you'll still be out
_____
Fightin' the fight for the people right
We are, livin' in a police state
Situations getting grave
Right now
It's over yeah.
We are, livin' in a police state
More than your rights at stake
Right now
I'm takin' it
Get ready cuz its time to go
Heaters movin' in and before you know it
They've got us all surrounded
The call has been sounded
This is how its goin' down tonight.
Tonight now we set things right
And besides who'd wanna live and die
In this mess we made
Its so depraved
What happened to my freedom
And you'll find me
Lying on the floor
Thinking about war
Thinking about war
Don't wanna do this anymore
They paraded
I'll be waiting for
The perfect time to strike
We are livin' in a police state (we are)
Situations getting grave (we are)
Right now (we are)
We are takin' it
We are livin' in a police state
More than your rights at stake
Right now
I'm takin' it.
Right now (we are) its on (we are) oh yeah
We are
More than your rights at stake
Right Now
I'm takin' it
Heaters got my town
Infiltratin' the air yeah
Locking down the masses
Even to scare ya
We don't have to deal with this shit
To serve and protect yo I ain't buying it.
Do it for the power
They're abusing the glory
Strip away the badge
And you'll still be out
_____
Fightin' the fight for the people right
We are, livin' in a police state
Situations getting grave
Right now
It's over yeah.
We are, livin' in a police state
More than your rights at stake
Right now
I'm takin' it
Get ready cuz its time to go
Heaters movin' in and before you know it
They've got us all surrounded
The call has been sounded
This is how its goin' down tonight.
Tonight now we set things right
And besides who'd wanna live and die
In this mess we made
Its so depraved
What happened to my freedom
And you'll find me
Lying on the floor
Thinking about war
Thinking about war
Don't wanna do this anymore
They paraded
I'll be waiting for
The perfect time to strike
We are livin' in a police state (we are)
Situations getting grave (we are)
Right now (we are)
We are takin' it
We are livin' in a police state
More than your rights at stake
Right now
I'm takin' it.
Right now (we are) its on (we are) oh yeah
We are
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its basically about how gay police when it comes to using drugs like marijuana.
like seriouslly... the po should just chill man....