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"
it’s only you beautiful whom which i can conprehend
your eyes tell tales stories of love passion and sin
and i believe, if only you could too
then maybe i’d stop having these dreams
she seeks nothing less
than excellence and pure perfection
and with these marking on my neck
i still believe, i still believe
when will i stop having these dreams?
...these nightmares
the first attempt to see the light and use her
our first attempt to fact the demons
from our past, present, and future
we’ll sleep with the lights on
its give or take
a few more minuets of this baby
and were completely awake
so girl lets dance your violent dance
you grab my neck and ill grab your...
hand in hand were at the skies demand tonight
youve got a way with this
youve got a way with this
your someone not so easily impressed
youre always searching for the next best
you left the marks so we would change
but ill never change my ways
from on top of the world
here’s to come
more bad news about what i’ve done
and it’s needles to say these selfish things
but the night’ the only thing for me
oh, my hands are wrapped
around your throat
and i’m dying
to let you know
my hands are wrapped
around your throat
and i’m dying
to let you know
moonlit skies and lovers lies
well lie entwined and ill take mine
those bloodsoked lips, i tried to kiss
now haunt me in my dreams
moonlit skies and lovers lies
well lie entwined and ill take mine
those bloodsoked lips, i tried to kiss
now haunt me in my dreams
it only hurts when i think
(it only hurts when i think)
it only hurts when i breath
it only hurts when i tried
i tried
(moonlit skies and lovers lies)
i think about this and watch you tremble
(moonlit skies and lovers lies)
i think about this as i try
(i tried)
i tried
ready or not, your gonna hear this
whether the screams come from the fucking floor
youll feel my wrath
youll feel the centuries turn to dust
bless my beating heart
still breathing without you
from on top of the world
here’s to come
more bad news (more bad news)
and it’s needles to say these selfish things
but the night’ the only thing for me
your eyes tell tales stories of love passion and sin
and i believe, if only you could too
then maybe i’d stop having these dreams
she seeks nothing less
than excellence and pure perfection
and with these marking on my neck
i still believe, i still believe
when will i stop having these dreams?
...these nightmares
the first attempt to see the light and use her
our first attempt to fact the demons
from our past, present, and future
we’ll sleep with the lights on
its give or take
a few more minuets of this baby
and were completely awake
so girl lets dance your violent dance
you grab my neck and ill grab your...
hand in hand were at the skies demand tonight
youve got a way with this
youve got a way with this
your someone not so easily impressed
youre always searching for the next best
you left the marks so we would change
but ill never change my ways
from on top of the world
here’s to come
more bad news about what i’ve done
and it’s needles to say these selfish things
but the night’ the only thing for me
oh, my hands are wrapped
around your throat
and i’m dying
to let you know
my hands are wrapped
around your throat
and i’m dying
to let you know
moonlit skies and lovers lies
well lie entwined and ill take mine
those bloodsoked lips, i tried to kiss
now haunt me in my dreams
moonlit skies and lovers lies
well lie entwined and ill take mine
those bloodsoked lips, i tried to kiss
now haunt me in my dreams
it only hurts when i think
(it only hurts when i think)
it only hurts when i breath
it only hurts when i tried
i tried
(moonlit skies and lovers lies)
i think about this and watch you tremble
(moonlit skies and lovers lies)
i think about this as i try
(i tried)
i tried
ready or not, your gonna hear this
whether the screams come from the fucking floor
youll feel my wrath
youll feel the centuries turn to dust
bless my beating heart
still breathing without you
from on top of the world
here’s to come
more bad news (more bad news)
and it’s needles to say these selfish things
but the night’ the only thing for me
Lyrics submitted by bandshirts
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