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"
The stage is set: a courtroom where I stand shackled in chains
No defense to fight the charges brought against my name
Guilty on all counts
And the penalty is death
I cannot say a word because I have no words to say
For I deserve the final judgment brought on me today
Guilty on all counts
And the penalty is death
"Wait! No more!"
Suddenly another takes the stand
My Advocate
To plead my case, a perfect, blameless man
"I will take his penalty
(I'll pay his price)
Place the judgment all on me
(Not guilty)
and let him go free"
Bound in chains, I owed a debt that I could not pay
Standing guilty in every way
When grace and mercy brought absolution
Adonai, I raise my hands to the sky in praise
For You have taken my sin away
Behold, today is my absolution day
Only the death of One could make the sacrifice complete
The Lamb has sprinkled His own blood upon the mercy seat
Absolution day
Burn the stain of sin away
"By My blood
All you heavy laden, enter in
I'll give you rest
So lay your burden down and start again
I've already paid your price
(I've paid your price)
And built a bridge from death to life
To eternal life"
Bound in chains, I owed a debt that I could not pay
Standing guilty in every way
When grace and mercy brought absolution
Adonai, I raise my hands to the sky in praise
For You have taken my sin away
Behold, today is my absolution day
No priest can say I'm worthy
No sacraments or holy laws can take my sin away
No church can wash my spirit clean,
for the scarlet stain that paints my soul to sleep runs way too deep
No blessed holy water
can sanctify me in the eyes of God
The great I AM
But He has made provision
to lift me up and wash me in the blood
of the spotless Lamb
For Christ alone is worthy
to pay the price to set all sinners free
For even me
When all works fall short and efforts fail,
I realize that faith alone's the key
Absolution for all who believe
Bound in chains, I owed a debt that I could not pay
Standing guilty in every way
When grace and mercy brought absolution
Adonai, I raise my hands to the sky in praise
For You have taken my sin away
Behold, today is my absolution day
(x3)
No defense to fight the charges brought against my name
Guilty on all counts
And the penalty is death
I cannot say a word because I have no words to say
For I deserve the final judgment brought on me today
Guilty on all counts
And the penalty is death
"Wait! No more!"
Suddenly another takes the stand
My Advocate
To plead my case, a perfect, blameless man
"I will take his penalty
(I'll pay his price)
Place the judgment all on me
(Not guilty)
and let him go free"
Bound in chains, I owed a debt that I could not pay
Standing guilty in every way
When grace and mercy brought absolution
Adonai, I raise my hands to the sky in praise
For You have taken my sin away
Behold, today is my absolution day
Only the death of One could make the sacrifice complete
The Lamb has sprinkled His own blood upon the mercy seat
Absolution day
Burn the stain of sin away
"By My blood
All you heavy laden, enter in
I'll give you rest
So lay your burden down and start again
I've already paid your price
(I've paid your price)
And built a bridge from death to life
To eternal life"
Bound in chains, I owed a debt that I could not pay
Standing guilty in every way
When grace and mercy brought absolution
Adonai, I raise my hands to the sky in praise
For You have taken my sin away
Behold, today is my absolution day
No priest can say I'm worthy
No sacraments or holy laws can take my sin away
No church can wash my spirit clean,
for the scarlet stain that paints my soul to sleep runs way too deep
No blessed holy water
can sanctify me in the eyes of God
The great I AM
But He has made provision
to lift me up and wash me in the blood
of the spotless Lamb
For Christ alone is worthy
to pay the price to set all sinners free
For even me
When all works fall short and efforts fail,
I realize that faith alone's the key
Absolution for all who believe
Bound in chains, I owed a debt that I could not pay
Standing guilty in every way
When grace and mercy brought absolution
Adonai, I raise my hands to the sky in praise
For You have taken my sin away
Behold, today is my absolution day
(x3)
Lyrics submitted by ledtheater9, edited by Octavarium64
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