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"
Is it not perfect over there? I have lost my way
The rope I hang on everyday, stops me from falling
While death counts every breath I take, I'm suffocating
The clouds I walk with everyday, hide demons waiting
No purpose
How pointless
It hurts me, why?
I scream in anger at this world I hate it, my
I feel so lonely
Among you
So worthless, where?
We go from here now
I don't know you tell me
Okay so
It's perfectly simple
Why I scream in anger at this world
My I sense a cold chill among you
Everybody rise
Is it no better over there? Or have you found it?
Our hearts are drowning in despair
Our souls feel grounded
The way back seems so far away
With each step fading
I'm still here dreaming up a day
One worth parading
No purpose
How pointless
It hurts me, why?
I scream in anger at this world I hate it, my
I feel so lonely
Among you
So worthless, where?
We go from here now
I don't know you tell me
Okay so
It's perfectly simple
Why I scream in anger at this world
My I sense a cold chill among you
Everybody rise
Every morning, sunshine with dead kids
Emp-TV your lives at your own risk
Why protect a game that protects this?
Everybody rise
It's too bright, It's too bright to care
It's too high, It's too high, I can't reach
It's too bright, It's too bright to care
It's too high, I just can't reach
It's too bright, it's too bright, it's too bright to care
It's too high, it's too high, I can't reach
It's too bright, it's too bright, it's too bright to care
It's too high, it's too high, I can't reach
It's perfectly simple
Why I scream in anger at this world
My I sense a cold chill among you
Everybody rise
Every morning, sunshine with dead kids
Emp-TV your lives at your own risk
Why protect a game that protects this?
Everybody rise
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple…
The rope I hang on everyday, stops me from falling
While death counts every breath I take, I'm suffocating
The clouds I walk with everyday, hide demons waiting
No purpose
How pointless
It hurts me, why?
I scream in anger at this world I hate it, my
I feel so lonely
Among you
So worthless, where?
We go from here now
I don't know you tell me
Okay so
It's perfectly simple
Why I scream in anger at this world
My I sense a cold chill among you
Everybody rise
Is it no better over there? Or have you found it?
Our hearts are drowning in despair
Our souls feel grounded
The way back seems so far away
With each step fading
I'm still here dreaming up a day
One worth parading
No purpose
How pointless
It hurts me, why?
I scream in anger at this world I hate it, my
I feel so lonely
Among you
So worthless, where?
We go from here now
I don't know you tell me
Okay so
It's perfectly simple
Why I scream in anger at this world
My I sense a cold chill among you
Everybody rise
Every morning, sunshine with dead kids
Emp-TV your lives at your own risk
Why protect a game that protects this?
Everybody rise
It's too bright, It's too bright to care
It's too high, It's too high, I can't reach
It's too bright, It's too bright to care
It's too high, I just can't reach
It's too bright, it's too bright, it's too bright to care
It's too high, it's too high, I can't reach
It's too bright, it's too bright, it's too bright to care
It's too high, it's too high, I can't reach
It's perfectly simple
Why I scream in anger at this world
My I sense a cold chill among you
Everybody rise
Every morning, sunshine with dead kids
Emp-TV your lives at your own risk
Why protect a game that protects this?
Everybody rise
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple
Everybody rise, its perfectly simple…
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