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"
Misery is all we know lately
Saturdays are all the same
Sympathy is overrated
Like a snapshot when you've lost the game
Now it's all the funeral
I've become a serial
Killer of us both
Now it's all the funeral
I've become a serial
Killer of us both
No, I
Don't want to get thrown in your ocean
Don't try
You know that we already know it
It's over
At your own burial
Don't forget to cry
At your own burial
Licking up my eighty-first birthday
Every day this body goes to waste
Remembering how I would raise an army
When we went back to your place
Now it's all the funeral
I've become a serial
Killer of us both
Now it's all the funeral
I've become a serial
Killer of us both
No, I
Don't want to get thrown in your ocean
Don't try
You know that we already know it
It's over
At your own burial
Don't forget to cry
At your own burial
At your own burial
Don't forget to cry
At your own burial
Saturdays are all the same
Sympathy is overrated
Like a snapshot when you've lost the game
Now it's all the funeral
I've become a serial
Killer of us both
Now it's all the funeral
I've become a serial
Killer of us both
No, I
Don't want to get thrown in your ocean
Don't try
You know that we already know it
It's over
At your own burial
Don't forget to cry
At your own burial
Licking up my eighty-first birthday
Every day this body goes to waste
Remembering how I would raise an army
When we went back to your place
Now it's all the funeral
I've become a serial
Killer of us both
Now it's all the funeral
I've become a serial
Killer of us both
No, I
Don't want to get thrown in your ocean
Don't try
You know that we already know it
It's over
At your own burial
Don't forget to cry
At your own burial
At your own burial
Don't forget to cry
At your own burial
Lyrics submitted by heathereve
Burial Lyrics as written by Christian Karlsson Andrew Wyatt Blakemore
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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Burial =Your wedding day
When I listen to this song I think he's scrutinizing marriage and pointing out that many things have to get "buried" when you make that decision. Many couples will have a great relationship at the beginning, but as soon as they get married it's like the fire goes out. Something dies. I think that's what the song is about.
At the beginning of the song he talks about being miserable with the same "routine" monotonous Saturdays. Obviously once you are married Saturday nights are no longer about going out, beer drinking, or a night out on the town. They are routine married things that you do as a couple. I actually feel sorry for my friends that choose to get married and I think the artist touches on that stating that "sympathy is overrated" because the game is over. They then go on to say "I don't want to get thrown in your ocean" - to me it's the new world of doing "married" things with married friends versus hanging around your single friends doing single things. I have seen it time and time again, once a friend gets married it's like they are no longer allowed to hang out with the "singles" because your single people and married people just do different things. They will soon get thrown into a ocean of doing things with "married" friends. Thus, that part of both of their lives is over.
The artist also talks about growing old and his body going to waste-touching on the fact that they will be bound by marriage for a lifetime, or until divorce. But before they were married, he would "raise an army" when they went back to her place...touching more on the idea that something dies and gets buried when you get married. The excitement is gone.
Thus the "burial" is actually your wedding day, which you should certainly cry. I think the reason the artist is hinting at is not the one most people would suspect.