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"
Stopped in the crossroads of my life
Wrapped in the world of eternal strife
I’m looking for the meaning of the universe
searching in myself melody
to drive me to the harmony
I’m hung from my right ankle
but I can see the truth
[bridge:]
The secret of the alchemy
rests in my crossed leg dark mystery
What is the price of my soul’s crack?
that one which ties my hands in my back
[chorus:]
In my way to the knowledge
I chose the road of sacrifice
I will be fey of secret things
I’ll see the other paradise
I’m head-down
Since life began
The hanged man
the time drowns
smiles Satan
The hanged man
It’s the time to understand
why my clock stop the sand?
My will is the only force
that governs my fate
No religions, no beliefs
if I read the overleaf
of the life book just than
I will see the god’s face
[bridge]
[chorus]
[choir:]
Since life began
The hanged man
Is seeing head-down
how the time drowns
What is the price of my soul’s crack?
that one which ties my hands
in my back
[chorus]
Wrapped in the world of eternal strife
I’m looking for the meaning of the universe
searching in myself melody
to drive me to the harmony
I’m hung from my right ankle
but I can see the truth
[bridge:]
The secret of the alchemy
rests in my crossed leg dark mystery
What is the price of my soul’s crack?
that one which ties my hands in my back
[chorus:]
In my way to the knowledge
I chose the road of sacrifice
I will be fey of secret things
I’ll see the other paradise
I’m head-down
Since life began
The hanged man
the time drowns
smiles Satan
The hanged man
It’s the time to understand
why my clock stop the sand?
My will is the only force
that governs my fate
No religions, no beliefs
if I read the overleaf
of the life book just than
I will see the god’s face
[bridge]
[chorus]
[choir:]
Since life began
The hanged man
Is seeing head-down
how the time drowns
What is the price of my soul’s crack?
that one which ties my hands
in my back
[chorus]
Lyrics submitted by bing_bang
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