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"
And once again
We feel the silence
So far away
From being able
To wait for deliverance
We consume ourselves
Into the flames
Of a perfect pain
As we stand alone
Separated
We're floating down
The complex stream of existence
Grey shadow plays reflecting vanity
We live to lie and to betray
As we stand alone
Separated
We lick the blood
Of our tainted, shattered innocence
We are used to swallow the poison
To close our eyes as we descent
And lost our will in self-affliction
A fool's promise to break our heart
We are so sick to live this way
But we enjoy the lack of light
Walking in darkness
To run away
This blindness to cure our mind
From dreadful misery
We can't find the right belief
We can't find salvation
Frail, pathetic
We're unborn possibilities
Dissolved plasmaterial
We hide injuries deep inside
Afraid to show our wounds
We enjoy damnation
Disconnected, we have no goal or meaning
To lead our steps on this ground
Like mannequins, we're evolving
In the fields of a dead reality
Surrounded by our own delusions
Fractured and distorted to the core
We're searching the ecstasy of faith
In this masquerade called life
As we stand alone
Separated
And we welcome the fall
Softly in our arms we embrace
The disease called humanity
The genesis of tears and exquisite agony
We feel the silence
So far away
From being able
To wait for deliverance
We consume ourselves
Into the flames
Of a perfect pain
As we stand alone
Separated
We're floating down
The complex stream of existence
Grey shadow plays reflecting vanity
We live to lie and to betray
As we stand alone
Separated
We lick the blood
Of our tainted, shattered innocence
We are used to swallow the poison
To close our eyes as we descent
And lost our will in self-affliction
A fool's promise to break our heart
We are so sick to live this way
But we enjoy the lack of light
Walking in darkness
To run away
This blindness to cure our mind
From dreadful misery
We can't find the right belief
We can't find salvation
Frail, pathetic
We're unborn possibilities
Dissolved plasmaterial
We hide injuries deep inside
Afraid to show our wounds
We enjoy damnation
Disconnected, we have no goal or meaning
To lead our steps on this ground
Like mannequins, we're evolving
In the fields of a dead reality
Surrounded by our own delusions
Fractured and distorted to the core
We're searching the ecstasy of faith
In this masquerade called life
As we stand alone
Separated
And we welcome the fall
Softly in our arms we embrace
The disease called humanity
The genesis of tears and exquisite agony
Lyrics submitted by RoC
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