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"
Another war in another time
Another loss for all mankind
Another turn when we’re headed straight
Another wrong there’s another right
Another tear from another eye
Another child running for his life
They’ll blead until the end
and not think twice about your sin
and we will follow you to your grave
Its time that we need to decide
If we should swallow the pill before we’re taken alive
And I choose life cause it’s more than our pride
And we’ll scream a little
Dream a little
Another sign in another place
Another move that we can’t erase
Another turn when we’re headed straight
They’re breaking their backs just to make it away
The young and the old it’s a coming of age
If no one is left there is no one to save
They’ll bleed until the end
and not think twice about your sin
and we will follow you to your grave
Its time that we need to decide
If we should swallow the pill before we’re taken alive
And I choose life cause it’s more than our pride
And we’ll scream a little
Dream a little
Heads up there’s a fire from above
You know we’re taking our chances when push comes to shove
And I choose life because its all about love
And we’ll dream a little
Scream a little
Dream a little
When the stars burn out
We’ll be lowered down
We’ll be home
We’ll be home
When the stars burn out
We’ll be lowered down
We’ll be home
We’ll be home
Hey yeah
When the stars burn out
We’ll be lowered down
We’ll be home
We’ll be home
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Another loss for all mankind
Another turn when we’re headed straight
Another wrong there’s another right
Another tear from another eye
Another child running for his life
They’ll blead until the end
and not think twice about your sin
and we will follow you to your grave
Its time that we need to decide
If we should swallow the pill before we’re taken alive
And I choose life cause it’s more than our pride
And we’ll scream a little
Dream a little
Another sign in another place
Another move that we can’t erase
Another turn when we’re headed straight
They’re breaking their backs just to make it away
The young and the old it’s a coming of age
If no one is left there is no one to save
They’ll bleed until the end
and not think twice about your sin
and we will follow you to your grave
Its time that we need to decide
If we should swallow the pill before we’re taken alive
And I choose life cause it’s more than our pride
And we’ll scream a little
Dream a little
Heads up there’s a fire from above
You know we’re taking our chances when push comes to shove
And I choose life because its all about love
And we’ll dream a little
Scream a little
Dream a little
When the stars burn out
We’ll be lowered down
We’ll be home
We’ll be home
When the stars burn out
We’ll be lowered down
We’ll be home
We’ll be home
Hey yeah
When the stars burn out
We’ll be lowered down
We’ll be home
We’ll be home
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Lyrics submitted by jblount
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"It's time that we need to decide If we should swallow the pill before we're taken alive And I choose life cause it's more than our pride And we'll scream a little Dream a little"
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