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"
I know you’ve tried to satisfy
Your appetite for too long
You wonder why you are alive
You've lived a lie for too long
So now you’re done
Life isn’t fun anymore
What’s this life for?
These are not only words to a song
Come to me, you’re forgiven now
You’re washed by blood, from deep inside!
You’re not a prisoner of your old life
Washed by blood, a brand new start!
It’s time that I rebuild your heart
I paid your price
I sacrificed my human life all for you
Come to the light, you will shine bright
You’ll never die, that’s the truth
Cause I have sworn you’ll be reborn If you choose, what’s there to lose?
These are not only words to a song
Come to me, you’re forgiven now
You’re washed by blood, from deep inside!
You’re not a prisoner of your old life
Washed by blood, a brand new start!
It’s time that I rebuild your heart
Wash away all the pain
With the blood, no more shame
Understand who you are
And what your life is for, for, for
Wash away all your pain
With the blood, no more shame
Understand who you are
And what your life is for, for, for
I am taking over from now on
You can’t escape, don’t even try to run
I can’t just sit and watch you die no more
You will begin to learn what life is for
I’ve chosen this time
To change your mind
So you will find your way back home
Where you belong
Your heart of stone
Will start to feel love from now on! True
Live for me and you will see!
Your life will be so worry-free!
Say goodbye to your old life!
Give me a try, be alive!
There shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying
There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away
You’re washed by blood, from deep inside!
You’re not a prisoner of your old life
Washed by blood, a brand new start!
It’s time that I rebuild your heart
Come fly away with me
And come fly away with me
You know I love you
I love you
Come fly with me
Love, love, love, love
Your appetite for too long
You wonder why you are alive
You've lived a lie for too long
So now you’re done
Life isn’t fun anymore
What’s this life for?
These are not only words to a song
Come to me, you’re forgiven now
You’re washed by blood, from deep inside!
You’re not a prisoner of your old life
Washed by blood, a brand new start!
It’s time that I rebuild your heart
I paid your price
I sacrificed my human life all for you
Come to the light, you will shine bright
You’ll never die, that’s the truth
Cause I have sworn you’ll be reborn If you choose, what’s there to lose?
These are not only words to a song
Come to me, you’re forgiven now
You’re washed by blood, from deep inside!
You’re not a prisoner of your old life
Washed by blood, a brand new start!
It’s time that I rebuild your heart
Wash away all the pain
With the blood, no more shame
Understand who you are
And what your life is for, for, for
Wash away all your pain
With the blood, no more shame
Understand who you are
And what your life is for, for, for
I am taking over from now on
You can’t escape, don’t even try to run
I can’t just sit and watch you die no more
You will begin to learn what life is for
I’ve chosen this time
To change your mind
So you will find your way back home
Where you belong
Your heart of stone
Will start to feel love from now on! True
Live for me and you will see!
Your life will be so worry-free!
Say goodbye to your old life!
Give me a try, be alive!
There shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying
There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away
You’re washed by blood, from deep inside!
You’re not a prisoner of your old life
Washed by blood, a brand new start!
It’s time that I rebuild your heart
Come fly away with me
And come fly away with me
You know I love you
I love you
Come fly with me
Love, love, love, love
Lyrics submitted by TatesMan
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washed by blood is the only way to be pure agian and only one persons blood and that blood is jesus christ accept him and he paid you sins 2000 year ago its the storie you always hear at thanks giving
What a deep song about living your life believing in God.. and not giving up and killing yourself.
Oh, and that is one of the most beautiful endings to a song I've ever heard.