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"
An old man came here telling tales
Of days gone by and seven veils
A sanctuary for all the pedlars of the lie
But one by one the veils fall
Through the subtlety of time recall
The wounds they longed to kill
Would not be silent, be still
You were faithless in a twist of fate
You jumped the queue at Traitor's Gate
It's just my view but you know what I say is true
It was the month of the strawberry moon
The smell of apples and summer's bloom
Ten thousand horses could not drag you centre stage
To weary sailors the sirens sing
You hiding in the stage's wings
Forever clawing at your chains and your white feathers
You were faithless in a twist of fate
You jumped the queue at Traitor's Gate
And to the stars our world will rise
Forever bound and sealed
You were faithless in a twist of fate
You jumped the queue at Traitor's Gate
Each act and motion locked away
Will be known in the end
You were faithless in a twist of fate
You jumped the queue at Traitor's Gate
At last the veils have fallen down
They squirm like vipers on the ground
In time the power of passion's lust
Slips through your fingers and turns to dust
Naked now you too were deceived
And now you must stare into the eyes of the Gorgon
Here within the time we spent upon this mortal coil
Not knowing what it all meant
Our lives of pain and toil
And those still standing tall beyond the china wall
Of days gone by and seven veils
A sanctuary for all the pedlars of the lie
But one by one the veils fall
Through the subtlety of time recall
The wounds they longed to kill
Would not be silent, be still
You were faithless in a twist of fate
You jumped the queue at Traitor's Gate
It's just my view but you know what I say is true
It was the month of the strawberry moon
The smell of apples and summer's bloom
Ten thousand horses could not drag you centre stage
To weary sailors the sirens sing
You hiding in the stage's wings
Forever clawing at your chains and your white feathers
You were faithless in a twist of fate
You jumped the queue at Traitor's Gate
And to the stars our world will rise
Forever bound and sealed
You were faithless in a twist of fate
You jumped the queue at Traitor's Gate
Each act and motion locked away
Will be known in the end
You were faithless in a twist of fate
You jumped the queue at Traitor's Gate
At last the veils have fallen down
They squirm like vipers on the ground
In time the power of passion's lust
Slips through your fingers and turns to dust
Naked now you too were deceived
And now you must stare into the eyes of the Gorgon
Here within the time we spent upon this mortal coil
Not knowing what it all meant
Our lives of pain and toil
And those still standing tall beyond the china wall
Lyrics submitted by Zughiaq, edited by Octavarium64
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