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"
Frames of truth,
I can see the falseness lying in thee,
fills me with confusion and distrust
Innocence,
I can see the wildness figured in thee,
reject the pose of injured chastity
Quietness,
I can feel the energies emission,
precluding a stagnation of time
Justify the truth which keeps my feet on the ground
I am hidden in a veil of distrust and speculation
With my own eyes I see through falseness and betrayal,
with my own eyes
[Chorus]
There are no extremities around you
Everything is influenced by an opposite
There are no purities and perfectibilities
There are no words of admonition
You are imposing your thoughts on others,
excluding their help and ideas without reflection
You will be confined,
your reality is overthrown
Purity within my innocent presence
I strive to live in virtuousness and reject indolence and delusion
Without wildness I live in perfect harmony,
without wildness
[Chorus]
Who are you to impose your thoughts and conceptions on others?
You exist in false dreams and lies without veracity
Predilection for yourself and your derelict ideas
Deepened in your depraved world within your mind
Do you really trust yourself, omniscient,
pure and unaffected, following your own axioms?
One can imagine the pure ideas of all states,
but they do not really exist uninfluenced
In silence the falling snow fortifies my feelings
In solitude I am comfortable without energies around me
Drifting into a timeless world without limitations,
a timeless world
[Chorus]
I am on the dark side of the earth in perpetual night
I am all alone with my shadow following my eyes
I am longing for the sun touching my callous coldness
Lost connection with ground, feeling a stagnation of time
Like the mirror of water reflecting his shadow in his eyes,
painted on the waves when they rise
Looks for a place for landing, there is no place to settle down
Fly into the clouds higher above
I am on the dark side of the earth in perpetual night
I am all alone with my shadow following my eyes
I am longing for the sun touching my callous coldness
Lost connection with ground, feeling a stagnation of time
Flying higher in my wildness,
far away from this place
My thoughts are flickering in a maze
Of wisdom and insanity
Flying higher in his wildness,
far away from this place
His thoughts are flickering in a maze
of wisdom and insanity
I can see the falseness lying in thee,
fills me with confusion and distrust
Innocence,
I can see the wildness figured in thee,
reject the pose of injured chastity
Quietness,
I can feel the energies emission,
precluding a stagnation of time
Justify the truth which keeps my feet on the ground
I am hidden in a veil of distrust and speculation
With my own eyes I see through falseness and betrayal,
with my own eyes
[Chorus]
There are no extremities around you
Everything is influenced by an opposite
There are no purities and perfectibilities
There are no words of admonition
You are imposing your thoughts on others,
excluding their help and ideas without reflection
You will be confined,
your reality is overthrown
Purity within my innocent presence
I strive to live in virtuousness and reject indolence and delusion
Without wildness I live in perfect harmony,
without wildness
[Chorus]
Who are you to impose your thoughts and conceptions on others?
You exist in false dreams and lies without veracity
Predilection for yourself and your derelict ideas
Deepened in your depraved world within your mind
Do you really trust yourself, omniscient,
pure and unaffected, following your own axioms?
One can imagine the pure ideas of all states,
but they do not really exist uninfluenced
In silence the falling snow fortifies my feelings
In solitude I am comfortable without energies around me
Drifting into a timeless world without limitations,
a timeless world
[Chorus]
I am on the dark side of the earth in perpetual night
I am all alone with my shadow following my eyes
I am longing for the sun touching my callous coldness
Lost connection with ground, feeling a stagnation of time
Like the mirror of water reflecting his shadow in his eyes,
painted on the waves when they rise
Looks for a place for landing, there is no place to settle down
Fly into the clouds higher above
I am on the dark side of the earth in perpetual night
I am all alone with my shadow following my eyes
I am longing for the sun touching my callous coldness
Lost connection with ground, feeling a stagnation of time
Flying higher in my wildness,
far away from this place
My thoughts are flickering in a maze
Of wisdom and insanity
Flying higher in his wildness,
far away from this place
His thoughts are flickering in a maze
of wisdom and insanity
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