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"
Here we are, In the place where you grew up.
Where you spent so much time,
Where you plotted out your life.
These next few lines are a series of events,
About my family and friends,
That kept me further from the edge.
So when the day comes,
That they put me into the ground.
All the ones who claimed they loved me will gather around.
They'll throw flowers down,
And tears will come running down their face.
As they say goodbye and say that I've gone to a better place.
This Is where your vision starts,
Where your visions starts to blur.
Have you ever thought of giving up on what you love the most?
Did you forget, about the ones that you would hurt?
Just a few more seconds then the pain will be gone.
Just hold on, Go ahead let go.
It's not your time, Your time is up.
There is so much more, You should end it here.
You've got your whole life In front of you.
You've got nothing to live for, There's a reason to live.
So pick up that knife, You just can't give up.
Put it through your chest.
Please end it, Please end it all.
It's on the tips of our tongues.
Help me, Hear, Leave me, forgive me.
If I fall, I'll be the one left to lie alone In this mess.
And I know, That If you end your life.
I will be joining you shortly.
You say you need a greater purpose.
I say you need to see what's coming.
When you know, That the feeling is gone.
You'll see this through my eyes and feel alive again.
The road to hell Is paved with good intentions.
The road to hell Is paved with good intentions.
Where you spent so much time,
Where you plotted out your life.
These next few lines are a series of events,
About my family and friends,
That kept me further from the edge.
So when the day comes,
That they put me into the ground.
All the ones who claimed they loved me will gather around.
They'll throw flowers down,
And tears will come running down their face.
As they say goodbye and say that I've gone to a better place.
This Is where your vision starts,
Where your visions starts to blur.
Have you ever thought of giving up on what you love the most?
Did you forget, about the ones that you would hurt?
Just a few more seconds then the pain will be gone.
Just hold on, Go ahead let go.
It's not your time, Your time is up.
There is so much more, You should end it here.
You've got your whole life In front of you.
You've got nothing to live for, There's a reason to live.
So pick up that knife, You just can't give up.
Put it through your chest.
Please end it, Please end it all.
It's on the tips of our tongues.
Help me, Hear, Leave me, forgive me.
If I fall, I'll be the one left to lie alone In this mess.
And I know, That If you end your life.
I will be joining you shortly.
You say you need a greater purpose.
I say you need to see what's coming.
When you know, That the feeling is gone.
You'll see this through my eyes and feel alive again.
The road to hell Is paved with good intentions.
The road to hell Is paved with good intentions.
Lyrics submitted by TidalWaves
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This song is about a couple, and at the beginning the male is telling the female why not to kill herself. "About my family and friends, That kept me further from the edge." Hes also saying he has thought about it before.
The next part says his family and friends will love him much more if he doesnt wend his life. "As they say goodbye and say that I've gone to a better place." THis is the part when is tells how she starts to lose control, Then relating to that line he says how suicide is a selfish act. "Did you forget, about the ones that you would hurt?" and he says that the pain will soon go away bcause im by your side.
The next part is an amazing screaming, singing duet ! It represents both sides and this persons thoughts, If she ends her life the guy with be essentially left alone in the world, The guy is very in love with the girl and says he will kill himself if she does. a great part to create beauty from hate.
"You say you need a greater purpose. I say you need to see what's coming. When you know, That the feeling is gone. You'll see this through my eyes and feel alive again. The road to hell Is paved with good intentions."
amazing, yet simple the male is talking to the female s aying that she needs to open her eyes, she saids she has no feeling to live. And he says look into my eyes and ill give you a reason to live.
And the last line "The road to hell Is paved with good intentions" just states even when you try to do things right it never works out and you decide to take a different path, the road to hell.
Thank you.
it might be about a couple, i also know that craig owens tried to commit suicide by overdosning on xanax due to depression and severe bipolar disorder, he also grew up in a really underpriviledged situation