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"
A million laps around the sun
And mankind ruined it all in a matter of centuries
Good job, 1-0 to Humanity
What's up with the vanity?
What do we actually have to prove to remove our insanity?
How many miles of ice have to melt before we show some sanity?
Hear me out...
When all the wonders of the world are gone, razed and destroyed
There will be no time to ask why it all came to this
We can almost hear the glaciers
Breaking day and night
Still we don't do a damn thing and I just can't see why?
Welcome to the last days of the earth
Welcome, everything is too late now
Welcome, was it really worth it in the end?
Welcome to the end of the world
The very last tick of this planet
Still we don't realize
That al of us will pay the price
No such thing as the luxury to think twice
God may be a kid with an ant farm
And we made him shake the box
Why wasn't to save the world on top of everyone's to do list?
Welcome to the last days of the earth
Welcome, everything is too late now
Welcome, was it really worth it in the end?
Welcome to the end of the world
When the power of love
Overcomes the love of power
The world will finally come to peace
When all the wonders of the world are gone, razed and destroyed
There will be no time to ask why it all came to this
We can almost hear the glaciers
Breaking day and night
Still we don't do a damn thing and I just can't see why?
Welcome to the last days of the earth
Welcome, everything is too late now
Welcome, was it really worth it in the end?
Welcome to the end of the world
Take a breath, make it deep
It could be the last, we'll ever make
But keep in mind, keep in mind
We brought this one on ourselves
We brought this one on ourselves
And mankind ruined it all in a matter of centuries
Good job, 1-0 to Humanity
What's up with the vanity?
What do we actually have to prove to remove our insanity?
How many miles of ice have to melt before we show some sanity?
Hear me out...
When all the wonders of the world are gone, razed and destroyed
There will be no time to ask why it all came to this
We can almost hear the glaciers
Breaking day and night
Still we don't do a damn thing and I just can't see why?
Welcome to the last days of the earth
Welcome, everything is too late now
Welcome, was it really worth it in the end?
Welcome to the end of the world
The very last tick of this planet
Still we don't realize
That al of us will pay the price
No such thing as the luxury to think twice
God may be a kid with an ant farm
And we made him shake the box
Why wasn't to save the world on top of everyone's to do list?
Welcome to the last days of the earth
Welcome, everything is too late now
Welcome, was it really worth it in the end?
Welcome to the end of the world
When the power of love
Overcomes the love of power
The world will finally come to peace
When all the wonders of the world are gone, razed and destroyed
There will be no time to ask why it all came to this
We can almost hear the glaciers
Breaking day and night
Still we don't do a damn thing and I just can't see why?
Welcome to the last days of the earth
Welcome, everything is too late now
Welcome, was it really worth it in the end?
Welcome to the end of the world
Take a breath, make it deep
It could be the last, we'll ever make
But keep in mind, keep in mind
We brought this one on ourselves
We brought this one on ourselves
Lyrics submitted by shatterzero666
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I don't know. If you look in the verse:
"When the power of love Overcomes the love of power The world will finally come to peace"
It is mainly focusing on talking about a type of world war in my opinion that has "razed and destroyed" the Earth because the love for power is much greater than "the power of love".
Global warming does sound probable also because it talks about the glaciers cracking and breaking. However, when you think of destruction and razed land, the best possibility is thinking of a war, kind of like a nuclear holocaust.
Also with the lines:
"God may be a kid with an ant farm And we made him shake the box Why wasn't to save the world on top of everyone's to do list?"
It is in a sense saying that we have screwed ourselves over as a civilization given a chance by God, and that we, basically, pissed him off to where he wants us to destroy ourselves.
I don't know man.<br /> <br /> I think "How many miles of ice have to melt before we show some sanity?"<br /> and <br /> "We can almost hear the glaciers/Breaking day and night/Still we don't do a damn thing and I just can't see why?" kind of speaks for itself. But thats just my humble opinion!