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"
Buried because of progress and profit.
Face the facts, you can send the harlot for the job of a pilgrim.
When we cast the script, we found it hard to tell either apart.
Enter the modern world.
Take rest my love because the thief is blessed with sounding bells.
The body count is all we got and I know that is hollow still.
Midnight is growing deep.
To sing of love or to sing of life is a lonely road, but I walk in faith.
Raise the flag.
I've seen way too much to let my heart break.
With the Father's past, how can distances be great?
This is for the earth that slept too late.
Bless the thief.
Face the facts, you can send the harlot for the job of a pilgrim.
When we cast the script, we found it hard to tell either apart.
Enter the modern world.
Take rest my love because the thief is blessed with sounding bells.
The body count is all we got and I know that is hollow still.
Midnight is growing deep.
To sing of love or to sing of life is a lonely road, but I walk in faith.
Raise the flag.
I've seen way too much to let my heart break.
With the Father's past, how can distances be great?
This is for the earth that slept too late.
Bless the thief.
Lyrics submitted by BinacaFreak
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