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"
This is my deepest dream.
This is how I show you my love.
This is him speaking to me.
This is me speaking to you.
This is him speaking through me to you.
I'm here struggling with my brothers.
This is the most passion you will ever see.
My heart is breaking for and with you.
Because but after all of what's between you still chose yourself over me.
My heart hurts and my heart breaks.
No one belongs here.
Not here where we leave our hearts.
The illusion for your weakened love.
This is not what we were made for.
Far from the compassion we have known.
Far from the love that we have shown.
He tells me that love will endure all things.
I know that you are forever my brother.
Here I struggle with you my brother.
He tells me that love endures all things.
And I'll have you know this is my deepest dream.
This is how I show you my love.
Beloved let us love one another.
This is my deepest dream.
Beloved let us love one another.
This is how I show you my love.
This is him speaking to me.
This is me speaking to you.
This is him speaking through me to you.
I'm here struggling with my brothers.
This is the most passion you will ever see.
My heart is breaking for and with you.
Because but after all of what's between you still chose yourself over me.
My heart hurts and my heart breaks.
No one belongs here.
Not here where we leave our hearts.
The illusion for your weakened love.
This is not what we were made for.
Far from the compassion we have known.
Far from the love that we have shown.
He tells me that love will endure all things.
I know that you are forever my brother.
Here I struggle with you my brother.
He tells me that love endures all things.
And I'll have you know this is my deepest dream.
This is how I show you my love.
Beloved let us love one another.
This is my deepest dream.
Beloved let us love one another.
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i herd this song on my local radio station nd it was just f** awesome.
how come no ones herd of this band yet they are amazing
this song actually impresses me quite a bit. i think they have a great shot at becoming something. i love these christian bands.
I agree with a lot of you guys in that people are too quick to throw a "Christian" tag on a band. "Beloved, let us love one another" is actually a verse from 1 John, and obviously other lyrics to this song can fit into that tag, but one song doesn't make them a Christian band. They just have good values and a great message in all of their lyrics. You're all going to hate me for this... but look at Creed. "Higher" is about a place similar to the description of heaven but they were in fact far from a Christian band.
Regardless, WCAR kills pretty much all other music that has ever touched my ears.
Creed wasn't that far from a Christian band, the rest of the guys decided on moving away from being a Christian band because the lead singer was an alcoholic.
this song is amazing just like the rest of their songs! they're always talking about their brothers which is awesone, and in this song one of their brothers is going down the wrong path and falling away and they're saying this isn't how it's supposed to be and it is breaking their heart to see their brother being broken down by his choices he's making.
-"This is the most passion you will ever see. My heart is breaking for and with you. Because but after all of what's between you still chose yourself over me. My heart hurts and my heart breaks."-
and they are giving advice to their friend from themselves and from god,
-"This is me speaking to you. This is him speaking through me to you."-
this exact thing is going on with one of my bro's and this song is exacly how the rest of us feel for him and about him.
i also love this song and this band, my brother is good through a very hard time and i feel for him alot and this song helps
This band amazes me! Seeing them live is like sex on ecstacy!! I love it The beginning of this song kinda reminds me some sort of jesus message, i don't know if im on the right track at all.. But yeah
amazing song very religous lyrics, always nice to see a great michigan bancd
LOVE this song! are they a christian band?
No, just a band with 6 down to Earth dudes. 4 of them happen to be Christian, the others aren't.
Woo Hoo! Local Band. This song is sweet, and its about someone going down the wrong path and this person is saying they pretty much need to straighten up
too bad they are not christian
what makes you say they arent christian?<br /> <br /> <br /> "he says love will endure all things"<br /> <br /> "this is him speaking to me, this is me speaking to you, this is him speaking through me to you"<br /> <br /> these are all very religious things hes saying here one of his brothers are going down a hard path and he wants to help him not because he feels pity for him but because he was told to by a higher power.
They aren't Christian. I know the band very well. I'm from Detroit, they come here all the time and Kyle Pavone, the lead singer, lives only like 30 mins away from me.
""We have Christian dudes in our band and we have non-Christian dudes in our band, and as a whole, we're not a Christian band. We definitely get it, but we also get it a lot because our music, as a whole, has a positive message to it, and there aren't a whole lot of bands with a positive message who aren't Christian bands. Typically, it's just Christian bands who promote a positive message. Just because we have a message, and it's not about killing each other, we get the Christian band tag.""
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