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"
[Verse 1]
Behind the veil,
of destiny,
the path might turn in,
sudden twists of irony,
night turns to day,
dark turns to light,
and to beginning,
on the other side of rite.
[Verse 2]
Wielder of steel,
tier of ropes,
the hooded slayer,
without shame and without hope,
sentenced to death,
but slipped away,
to live the role of,
a hangman at display.
[Chorus]
Come and see the play of wicked irony,
join the crowd of hunger
for the joy of the carnival of disgust.
[Verse 3]
Lonely he walks,
outcast of shame,
fearful and spat on,
yet respected for his name,
marked by the blade,
to be known at sight,
as a walking dead man,
for a crime that's black as night.
[Chorus]
Come and see the play of wicked irony,
join the crowd of hunger
for the joy of the carnival of disgust.
[Chorus]
Come and see the play of wicked irony,
join the crowd of hunger
for the joy of the carnival of disgust.
Behind the veil,
of destiny,
the path might turn in,
sudden twists of irony,
night turns to day,
dark turns to light,
and to beginning,
on the other side of rite.
[Verse 2]
Wielder of steel,
tier of ropes,
the hooded slayer,
without shame and without hope,
sentenced to death,
but slipped away,
to live the role of,
a hangman at display.
[Chorus]
Come and see the play of wicked irony,
join the crowd of hunger
for the joy of the carnival of disgust.
[Verse 3]
Lonely he walks,
outcast of shame,
fearful and spat on,
yet respected for his name,
marked by the blade,
to be known at sight,
as a walking dead man,
for a crime that's black as night.
[Chorus]
Come and see the play of wicked irony,
join the crowd of hunger
for the joy of the carnival of disgust.
[Chorus]
Come and see the play of wicked irony,
join the crowd of hunger
for the joy of the carnival of disgust.
Lyrics submitted by skate3214
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