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"
i light fire to your world
and listen as they lay
whispered little sounds
cracking to a pound
pummeling the town
everything you say
it's a beautiful wondered display
you are the moses of the south
devil worship now
temples crumble down
flood from your mouth
it's violent and insane
and crucifying the insane
i while dancing, horned sirens fly
they cackle at the sun
they're spitting at the earth
plunder, beg and curse
pure and fearful children flee north
at the sound of the kings horn
and i will send you up a sign
everytihing is fine
all the vines and branches are torn
it's violent and insane
and crucifying the inane
cause prophets here linger in lightening
they're giddy and livid in love
they're weeping and laughing from pleasure
cause the sky one day must eat the earth
i light fire to the world
and listen as it lays
whispered little sounds
cracking to a pound
pummeling the town
everything you say
it's beautiful wondered dismay
you are the moses of the sound
devil worship now
temples crumble down
flood from the mouth
it's violent and insane
and crucifying the inane
cause brother you are my weakness
i'll listen and learn from your kindness
your wisdom is very thoughtless
but your window is worth looking out from
and listen as they lay
whispered little sounds
cracking to a pound
pummeling the town
everything you say
it's a beautiful wondered display
you are the moses of the south
devil worship now
temples crumble down
flood from your mouth
it's violent and insane
and crucifying the insane
i while dancing, horned sirens fly
they cackle at the sun
they're spitting at the earth
plunder, beg and curse
pure and fearful children flee north
at the sound of the kings horn
and i will send you up a sign
everytihing is fine
all the vines and branches are torn
it's violent and insane
and crucifying the inane
cause prophets here linger in lightening
they're giddy and livid in love
they're weeping and laughing from pleasure
cause the sky one day must eat the earth
i light fire to the world
and listen as it lays
whispered little sounds
cracking to a pound
pummeling the town
everything you say
it's beautiful wondered dismay
you are the moses of the sound
devil worship now
temples crumble down
flood from the mouth
it's violent and insane
and crucifying the inane
cause brother you are my weakness
i'll listen and learn from your kindness
your wisdom is very thoughtless
but your window is worth looking out from
Lyrics submitted by hideindoors
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it's the moses of the south that's what it is nothing more, nothing less