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"
It’s been such a long time since I met you back on Skaro
And I’m pretty sure that you know
That not much has changed since then
It doesn’t matter how hard you try to remove me
I think you will agree
That if one of us dies, then the other will too
I am locked in war with you
Exterminate, Regenerate
I thought you always knew our fate
To just keep fighting on and on
While time keeps turning
Regenerate, Exterminate
And even though we are the same
Why don’t you hop into your ship
And leave me burning
Even though, as men, we have our contrasts
We’re of exactly the same class
And our constant companion is death
Look at you, fashioning people into weapons
How can you say that you’re better than me?
We both carry the fire, that is set to devour life
Exterminate, Regenerate
I thought you always knew our fate
To just keep fighting on and on
While time keeps turning
Regenerate, Exterminate
And even though we are the same
Why don’t you hop into your ship
And leave me burning
We both carry the fire, that has the power to end life
But what I do with that flame is what separates our types
If it takes till the end of reality to beat you
Then ill be sure to meet you, at the exit of the world
Exterminate, Regenerate
You know that it isn’t too late
To end what seems impossible
And leave time turning
Regenerate, Exterminate
And even though we aren’t the same
Why don’t you hop into my ship
And we can settle this
And we can settle this
Exterminate, Regenerate (Exterminate)
You know that it isn’t too late (Regenerate)
To end what seems impossible (Exterminate)
And leave time turning (Regenerate)
Regenerate, Exterminate (Exterminate)
And even though we aren’t the same (Regenerate)
Why don’t you hop into my ship (Exterminate)
(Regenerate)
Exterminate, Regenerate (Exterminate)
I thought you always knew our fate (Regenerate)
To just keep fighting on and on (Exterminate)
While time keeps turning (Regenerate)
Regenerate, Exterminate (Exterminate)
And even though we are the same (Regenerate)
Why don’t you hop into your ship (Exterminate)
And leave me burning (Regenerate)
And we can settle this, forever
Yeah we can travel time, together
We can settle this, forever
And I’m pretty sure that you know
That not much has changed since then
It doesn’t matter how hard you try to remove me
I think you will agree
That if one of us dies, then the other will too
I am locked in war with you
Exterminate, Regenerate
I thought you always knew our fate
To just keep fighting on and on
While time keeps turning
Regenerate, Exterminate
And even though we are the same
Why don’t you hop into your ship
And leave me burning
Even though, as men, we have our contrasts
We’re of exactly the same class
And our constant companion is death
Look at you, fashioning people into weapons
How can you say that you’re better than me?
We both carry the fire, that is set to devour life
Exterminate, Regenerate
I thought you always knew our fate
To just keep fighting on and on
While time keeps turning
Regenerate, Exterminate
And even though we are the same
Why don’t you hop into your ship
And leave me burning
We both carry the fire, that has the power to end life
But what I do with that flame is what separates our types
If it takes till the end of reality to beat you
Then ill be sure to meet you, at the exit of the world
Exterminate, Regenerate
You know that it isn’t too late
To end what seems impossible
And leave time turning
Regenerate, Exterminate
And even though we aren’t the same
Why don’t you hop into my ship
And we can settle this
And we can settle this
Exterminate, Regenerate (Exterminate)
You know that it isn’t too late (Regenerate)
To end what seems impossible (Exterminate)
And leave time turning (Regenerate)
Regenerate, Exterminate (Exterminate)
And even though we aren’t the same (Regenerate)
Why don’t you hop into my ship (Exterminate)
(Regenerate)
Exterminate, Regenerate (Exterminate)
I thought you always knew our fate (Regenerate)
To just keep fighting on and on (Exterminate)
While time keeps turning (Regenerate)
Regenerate, Exterminate (Exterminate)
And even though we are the same (Regenerate)
Why don’t you hop into your ship (Exterminate)
And leave me burning (Regenerate)
And we can settle this, forever
Yeah we can travel time, together
We can settle this, forever
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okay i know this isn't what it is i am not an idiot i realize it's about the daleks and davros....but i noticed something about this song that made me think of something else...eliminate the word skaro...now can anyone else get the feel that he is talking to the master...that last line just screamed master/doctor moment at the end of season 3....please somebody tell me i'm not crazy for seeing this connection
no i saw that too <br /> the master turned those people into a new race to take over the earth and he is like the doctor alot obviuosly<br /> i do think is is supposed to be about the daleks and the doctor tho