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"
And we will never see the rise
But I fall behind
And I make mistakes
Now this will all come back on me tonight
Because I've been so bad
And I feel so low
And it keeps chewing through me
If I ever get
Through this alive
I'll still be drowned in slowly
Because I've been so dead
Skin and bone
But I make this harsh decision
I can't put it off forever
Watch yourself when you're walking the streets at night
You'd better be wise
It's full of all different types of people
And some would take your life
Just beware when you're walking the streets at night
I'd never deny
Their full of sick fucking freaks and weirdos
You should stay inside
Believe me please
Don't go out on your own
You'll get killed
You'd be lucky to walk away with your face intact tonight
Spin the cylinder of the gun
And hold it to my face
Hold it to my face
Death will not be denied
The one thing you can be sure of
No ones on your side when it comes to the end of your life
Wake up in the morning
With broken teeth and a fat lip
Well I'm sick and tired and my fists are aching
My heart stops beating (x3)
My lungs are leaking
Believe me please
I wont tell you again now
It's not safe to be outdoors tonight
Why'd you want to go anyway?
Don't you want to be safe with me?
Safe and warm from the beast beneath the streets
The beast beneath
Will kill you
Now every time
I turn around
I know he will be waiting
So I'm keeping low
And I can't be reached
Now he will never see me
Killing for sake
It never meant
Never meant nothing to me
But just for now
I'll take my time
I know there will be others
And you could be one of them fucker
But I fall behind
And I make mistakes
Now this will all come back on me tonight
Because I've been so bad
And I feel so low
And it keeps chewing through me
If I ever get
Through this alive
I'll still be drowned in slowly
Because I've been so dead
Skin and bone
But I make this harsh decision
I can't put it off forever
Watch yourself when you're walking the streets at night
You'd better be wise
It's full of all different types of people
And some would take your life
Just beware when you're walking the streets at night
I'd never deny
Their full of sick fucking freaks and weirdos
You should stay inside
Believe me please
Don't go out on your own
You'll get killed
You'd be lucky to walk away with your face intact tonight
Spin the cylinder of the gun
And hold it to my face
Hold it to my face
Death will not be denied
The one thing you can be sure of
No ones on your side when it comes to the end of your life
Wake up in the morning
With broken teeth and a fat lip
Well I'm sick and tired and my fists are aching
My heart stops beating (x3)
My lungs are leaking
Believe me please
I wont tell you again now
It's not safe to be outdoors tonight
Why'd you want to go anyway?
Don't you want to be safe with me?
Safe and warm from the beast beneath the streets
The beast beneath
Will kill you
Now every time
I turn around
I know he will be waiting
So I'm keeping low
And I can't be reached
Now he will never see me
Killing for sake
It never meant
Never meant nothing to me
But just for now
I'll take my time
I know there will be others
And you could be one of them fucker
Lyrics submitted by GwillaWilla
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