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"
As I close my eyes I just don't feel myself
I speak in foreign tongue, in the voice of someone else
And I've been a sinner baby with no soul left to sell
I've got a love for lust and a lusty thirst to kill
Look at the blood on my hands now
There's not a breath left to breathe
This is the road to destruction
That I never can leave
It's passion that I crave
And this time he's taking over and everyone gets slain
And I am a killer baby, a sinner and a saint
I've got a thirst for war and a will to dominate
And now the war is upon us
Are you ready to bleed?
This is the road to destruction
And no one gets to leave
Oh this will only lead to whatever debility
And you'll practice your demise as hard as the air you breathe
Something about the way I do when I hear you scream
Is it wrong, it turns me on and haunts me in my dreams
Aren't we having fun
On the road to destruction
Aren't we having fun
On the road to destruction
Baby here we come
I just can't seem to shake all this hate inside of me
And it burns, it twists and turns, in the face of my enemies
Now is the bloodstain play of a ruthless liberty
So before your one last breath, oh baby let me hear you scream
Aren't we having fun
On the road to destruction
Nowhere you can run
On the road to destruction
Baby here we come
I just can’t seem to shake all this hate inside of me
And it burns, it twists and turns, in the face of my enemies
Now is the bloodstain play of a ruthless liberty
So before your one last breath, oh baby let me hear you scream
Aren’t we having fun
On the road to destruction
Nowhere you can run
On the road to destruction
Baby here we come
Road to destruction
Aren’t we having fun
On the road to destruction
Nowhere you can run
On the road to destruction
Turn it deep in time
I speak in foreign tongue, in the voice of someone else
And I've been a sinner baby with no soul left to sell
I've got a love for lust and a lusty thirst to kill
Look at the blood on my hands now
There's not a breath left to breathe
This is the road to destruction
That I never can leave
It's passion that I crave
And this time he's taking over and everyone gets slain
And I am a killer baby, a sinner and a saint
I've got a thirst for war and a will to dominate
And now the war is upon us
Are you ready to bleed?
This is the road to destruction
And no one gets to leave
Oh this will only lead to whatever debility
And you'll practice your demise as hard as the air you breathe
Something about the way I do when I hear you scream
Is it wrong, it turns me on and haunts me in my dreams
Aren't we having fun
On the road to destruction
Aren't we having fun
On the road to destruction
Baby here we come
I just can't seem to shake all this hate inside of me
And it burns, it twists and turns, in the face of my enemies
Now is the bloodstain play of a ruthless liberty
So before your one last breath, oh baby let me hear you scream
Aren't we having fun
On the road to destruction
Nowhere you can run
On the road to destruction
Baby here we come
I just can’t seem to shake all this hate inside of me
And it burns, it twists and turns, in the face of my enemies
Now is the bloodstain play of a ruthless liberty
So before your one last breath, oh baby let me hear you scream
Aren’t we having fun
On the road to destruction
Nowhere you can run
On the road to destruction
Baby here we come
Road to destruction
Aren’t we having fun
On the road to destruction
Nowhere you can run
On the road to destruction
Turn it deep in time
Lyrics submitted by jen2
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