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"
Their pious iconography, seductive and sublime
artifacts from allegoric myth
Crucifix, testaments seemingly benign
what havoc have they wrought upon this earth
Stalking, these jackals never cease,
clawing at our gates
With nebulous beliefs, apocryphal
Born from the callow minds of men
Not resting till they have theocracy in hand
...and Church molesting State
Their laughable liturgies,
intelligent design?
Mortify the blind faithful flock!
Comedies canonical, this spectacle divine
mesmerizing millions over naught
Slowly, they pander their disease,
with secrecy enshrined
at the table of deceit, the faithful dine
Born from the callow minds of men
Not resting till they have theocracy in hand
...and Church molesting State
To break the secular contract
To rule with piety perverse
While the shit of the State fucking reeks
Only THEY could make it even worse
Yet they stand in fear,
petrified in the face of science,
where evidence stands to contradict,
and deny their faith of servility
defined, by myth
It's a fable that should never burden man
And the church, with power replete,
Would sanction the very rule of myth over man
As insidious agents of faith,
still lost in the ether (Amen)
So we sing the agnostic's song
In spirit and mind we govern ourselves
We need not their catechist codes
To live out our days, and make our tomorrows
artifacts from allegoric myth
Crucifix, testaments seemingly benign
what havoc have they wrought upon this earth
Stalking, these jackals never cease,
clawing at our gates
With nebulous beliefs, apocryphal
Born from the callow minds of men
Not resting till they have theocracy in hand
...and Church molesting State
Their laughable liturgies,
intelligent design?
Mortify the blind faithful flock!
Comedies canonical, this spectacle divine
mesmerizing millions over naught
Slowly, they pander their disease,
with secrecy enshrined
at the table of deceit, the faithful dine
Born from the callow minds of men
Not resting till they have theocracy in hand
...and Church molesting State
To break the secular contract
To rule with piety perverse
While the shit of the State fucking reeks
Only THEY could make it even worse
Yet they stand in fear,
petrified in the face of science,
where evidence stands to contradict,
and deny their faith of servility
defined, by myth
It's a fable that should never burden man
And the church, with power replete,
Would sanction the very rule of myth over man
As insidious agents of faith,
still lost in the ether (Amen)
So we sing the agnostic's song
In spirit and mind we govern ourselves
We need not their catechist codes
To live out our days, and make our tomorrows
Lyrics submitted by nufy8
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