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 can make you understand,
We can make you understand,
Play with me,
You can make the love and I'll make the money,
Stay with me,
Shut out the world, live underneath the city.
Release cold gender bombs,
On colonial closets, middle England.
Stay with me.
I'll be Peter Pan and you just be pretty.
To the brave and the petrified,
We all fall down.
To the slaves and the civilized,
We all fall down.
To the lovers we left behind.
The bad days, the good nights.
In the great shipwreck of life,
We all fall down.
Born, we are, between the hard black rock
And the cold of the immortal,
Torn from cause from the flames of the brave,
And the bosom we can't return to.
We light up the bars of the world
With the decadent distance of innocence, oh!
Free, but sharp,
We could be the satellite guiding through the dark, oh!
To the brave and the petrified,
We all fall down.
To the slaves and the civilized,
We all fall down.
To the lovers we left behind.
The bad days, the good nights.
In the great shipwreck of life,
We all fall down.
Manifesto, black fire.
We can make you understand.
Of liberty and bright light,
We could make you understand,
We could make you understand,
We could make you understand!
To the brave and the petrified,
We all fall down.
To the slaves and the civilized,
We all fall down.
To the lovers we left behind.
The bad days, the good nights.
In the great shipwreck of life,
We all fall down.
We can make you understand,
We can make you understand...
We can make you understand,
Play with me,
You can make the love and I'll make the money,
Stay with me,
Shut out the world, live underneath the city.
Release cold gender bombs,
On colonial closets, middle England.
Stay with me.
I'll be Peter Pan and you just be pretty.
To the brave and the petrified,
We all fall down.
To the slaves and the civilized,
We all fall down.
To the lovers we left behind.
The bad days, the good nights.
In the great shipwreck of life,
We all fall down.
Born, we are, between the hard black rock
And the cold of the immortal,
Torn from cause from the flames of the brave,
And the bosom we can't return to.
We light up the bars of the world
With the decadent distance of innocence, oh!
Free, but sharp,
We could be the satellite guiding through the dark, oh!
To the brave and the petrified,
We all fall down.
To the slaves and the civilized,
We all fall down.
To the lovers we left behind.
The bad days, the good nights.
In the great shipwreck of life,
We all fall down.
Manifesto, black fire.
We can make you understand.
Of liberty and bright light,
We could make you understand,
We could make you understand,
We could make you understand!
To the brave and the petrified,
We all fall down.
To the slaves and the civilized,
We all fall down.
To the lovers we left behind.
The bad days, the good nights.
In the great shipwreck of life,
We all fall down.
We can make you understand,
We can make you understand...
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i think its pretty simplistic... although ive been proved wrong with Chris' work.
im thinking its about that we all have bad days, and those who pretend nothing can harm them (politicians?) are just as human as us - but we always rely on them?
im not really sure if im honest :P