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"
We are ready for the siege
We are armed up to the teeth
Be careful how you live and breathe
Release what's broken underneath
How many times do you wanna die?
How many ways do you wanna die?
Do you feel safe again? Look over your shoulder
Very carefully look over your shoulder
We can laugh about it now
We hope everything works out
Be careful how you lick your wounds
Believe that change is coming soon
How many times do you wanna die?
How many ways do you wanna die?
Do you feel safe again? Look over your shoulder
Very carefully look over your shoulder
You used to do a little, but a little won't fly
Right before you hit your prime
That's when we fell in love, but not the first time
Can I please you still?
Remain in your father's will
Or does it make you ill?
Let us bruise their knees
We went in straight for a defeat
You will be relieved
So relieved, so relieved to the flow, and desire
Bitter sparks to the friendly fire
Misery inspires
Your throwin' me cuts several times before
Never noticed the size of the flow
Make it be ignored
Do you feel safe again? Look over your shoulder
Carefully look over your shoulder
You said you believe, but believing won't fly
Right before you hit your prime
That's when we fell in love, but not the first time
And when it's all over and you open your eyes
You see the room turned on its side
And you'll be lying down and over on the floor; signed,
The Royal We [Repeats: x8]
Love The Royal We
We are armed up to the teeth
Be careful how you live and breathe
Release what's broken underneath
How many times do you wanna die?
How many ways do you wanna die?
Do you feel safe again? Look over your shoulder
Very carefully look over your shoulder
We can laugh about it now
We hope everything works out
Be careful how you lick your wounds
Believe that change is coming soon
How many times do you wanna die?
How many ways do you wanna die?
Do you feel safe again? Look over your shoulder
Very carefully look over your shoulder
You used to do a little, but a little won't fly
Right before you hit your prime
That's when we fell in love, but not the first time
Can I please you still?
Remain in your father's will
Or does it make you ill?
Let us bruise their knees
We went in straight for a defeat
You will be relieved
So relieved, so relieved to the flow, and desire
Bitter sparks to the friendly fire
Misery inspires
Your throwin' me cuts several times before
Never noticed the size of the flow
Make it be ignored
Do you feel safe again? Look over your shoulder
Carefully look over your shoulder
You said you believe, but believing won't fly
Right before you hit your prime
That's when we fell in love, but not the first time
And when it's all over and you open your eyes
You see the room turned on its side
And you'll be lying down and over on the floor; signed,
The Royal We [Repeats: x8]
Love The Royal We
Lyrics submitted by chardsofglass, edited by villash, lokdal
The Royal We Lyrics as written by Christopher Andrew Guanlao Brian Nolan Kalei Aubert
Lyrics © Word Collections Publishing
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Come on boy's it's really not that mysterious of a song. The lyrics are very good, but it's not like he is being obscure or writing in the abstract here. One comment said 'it feels like the most important song on the album' but he was at a lose when it came to lyrical comprehension, important is a broad term though it is clearly the most urgent song on the album. Musically orchestrated to summon a cosmic energy that wraps around the lyrics beautifully and highlights the fight of the authors life, as well as his lovers. Look guys it's not about war, don't just look at words like siege or royal we and attach bureaucratic thoughts of conquest to it. I guess because of terms like friendly fire if one just glanced at that phrase and didn't see the poem as a whole, that conclusion could be drawn. Fact of the matter is that the scope of this song is not universal or even interpersonal, it is merely the authors struggle with drug use (heroin probably) and his fighting struggle (war) to remove the drugs influence over his life. He is also expressing guilt and speaking of a struggle to come to terms with the fact that he involved his lover in the abuse of the heroine. references to being 'armed for the fight' are shown throughout the peice, and withdrawal is a major theme as well. Not a super deep song, it was written from a very tonal level of perception. Though the beauty of it lies in the pure sincerity are intensity of his desire and awareness to overcome. Perhaps ssp best song
Couldn't agree more; winning comment here. It's the most rocking song and probably the best musically, but the lyrics are definitely primarily intended to represent addiction, not some true alliance. The "alliance" would be between the addict and their addiction - the royal we is in reality a mirage(the addiction and the addict's lies to his/herself). Though, I do believe that this song, like any well written song, can be applied to most anything. The creator's intent isn't all that matters; if one wants to apply it to war or battle, let them. It doesn't mean they are right or wrong, but in this case they would be taking a quite immature as well as Jenna said, "bureaucratic" of them. The song is really a starting point of the album from where the character of the story that is told begins falling deeper into their "swoon." That's why this song was followed by 'There's No Secrets This Year,' the "secrets" are undoubtedly some of these addictions and vices which the person has fallen victim to.