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"
Eternal dark
Infinite tomb
Only stars instead of friends
We've got our magical gift and
Only stars instead of friends.
Our spacecraft will fathom deep space
Turning them into the guardians of our souls.
There's more harms to fight in the galaxy
That those tiny insects shining bright.
In this eternal dark, cold, and infinite tomb,
Making us like their light…immortals!
I'm tired of that endless race.
Of this nightmare, we were born and live as
Shadows…fugitives…rebels…damned…
This time you have had it criminals!
How fool you were to come here!
Let me introduce myself : I'm Maeror
A ghost sent to hunt you down.
Although you gave me hard time I…finally get you!
I feel a claw that wrings my heart,
As the soldiers raise up their weapons.
I feel a lump in my throat,
I can't believe it's the end!
But I see a flaw, in that circle,
Here! Just in front of me!
We've got a last chance so we must…Run!
We're alive my friends, but they just missed us
Thanks to our ship, now we're far from death.
I thought we could never leave this damn place,
But our tomb still stays empty.
True heroes can give their lives for peace,
All seemed easy when I was reading tales,
But when our time will begin to close at end,
Should we flow into the hell?
Hear…Feel…Touch my mind and see. Hear my call…
I open the only treasure we've saved.
Those symbols touching my mind, then, my ears.
I understand now, that our gift enable us to better convey
By touching someone's feelings. Now, I know, I know…
My friends it seems that our enemies fear our power
Relic of a lost art, tears from a sea of faith,
The power to build a new world!
Now we know our destiny,
We must spread our call for the life
For the mankind that damn us, we must fight, even die!
Now you know your destiny
You must transcend all that you see
For your spirits salvation, close your eyes, hear no sound...
Infinite tomb
Only stars instead of friends
We've got our magical gift and
Only stars instead of friends.
Our spacecraft will fathom deep space
Turning them into the guardians of our souls.
There's more harms to fight in the galaxy
That those tiny insects shining bright.
In this eternal dark, cold, and infinite tomb,
Making us like their light…immortals!
I'm tired of that endless race.
Of this nightmare, we were born and live as
Shadows…fugitives…rebels…damned…
This time you have had it criminals!
How fool you were to come here!
Let me introduce myself : I'm Maeror
A ghost sent to hunt you down.
Although you gave me hard time I…finally get you!
I feel a claw that wrings my heart,
As the soldiers raise up their weapons.
I feel a lump in my throat,
I can't believe it's the end!
But I see a flaw, in that circle,
Here! Just in front of me!
We've got a last chance so we must…Run!
We're alive my friends, but they just missed us
Thanks to our ship, now we're far from death.
I thought we could never leave this damn place,
But our tomb still stays empty.
True heroes can give their lives for peace,
All seemed easy when I was reading tales,
But when our time will begin to close at end,
Should we flow into the hell?
Hear…Feel…Touch my mind and see. Hear my call…
I open the only treasure we've saved.
Those symbols touching my mind, then, my ears.
I understand now, that our gift enable us to better convey
By touching someone's feelings. Now, I know, I know…
My friends it seems that our enemies fear our power
Relic of a lost art, tears from a sea of faith,
The power to build a new world!
Now we know our destiny,
We must spread our call for the life
For the mankind that damn us, we must fight, even die!
Now you know your destiny
You must transcend all that you see
For your spirits salvation, close your eyes, hear no sound...
Lyrics submitted by exil
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