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"
Again, I wake to you... Stand up, these feet are so far from clean.
I'm undeserving of the strength in your arms used to save me.
But years passed when i saw Eve next to me,
she's wrapped in low-cut, dripping sensuality.
I remember the host, but it's been so long since we spoke.
He said, "My son, you can hold perfection in your arms if you wish."
but i sit at a banquet for traitors
placed here between a thief and a liar.
"Just run and hold perfection in your arms as I slip..."
but i'll make you the god of a liar
cause i've been both a saint and a viper.
I'll make you the god of a liar.
I am a lie, just like these traitors that cry for forgiving replies
but keep their grips held tight.
Though my eye's on Eve you're ready to bleed as if I'm royalty
but I am no king. I am no king.
His life spilled like a tide so divine.
It was a blood soaked feast that never ceased as his veins dripped empty.
With such violent grace, the waves hit my face
and in painful clarity i turned fearfully...
"What makes you think you can deserve me?
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN DESERVE ME?"
My host fell to His knees as paling lips pushed His plea...
"My son, you can hold perfection in your arms if you wish."
but i sit at a banquet for traitors, placed here between a thief and a liar.
"Just run and hold perfection in your arms as I slip..."
but i'll make you the god of a liar
cause i've been both a saint and a viper.
By grace uneven, at the banquet portrayed, through death, this life is saved.
But I am no king! I am no...
"Open your eyes, child, your sea is changing"
I'm undeserving of the strength in your arms used to save me.
But years passed when i saw Eve next to me,
she's wrapped in low-cut, dripping sensuality.
I remember the host, but it's been so long since we spoke.
He said, "My son, you can hold perfection in your arms if you wish."
but i sit at a banquet for traitors
placed here between a thief and a liar.
"Just run and hold perfection in your arms as I slip..."
but i'll make you the god of a liar
cause i've been both a saint and a viper.
I'll make you the god of a liar.
I am a lie, just like these traitors that cry for forgiving replies
but keep their grips held tight.
Though my eye's on Eve you're ready to bleed as if I'm royalty
but I am no king. I am no king.
His life spilled like a tide so divine.
It was a blood soaked feast that never ceased as his veins dripped empty.
With such violent grace, the waves hit my face
and in painful clarity i turned fearfully...
"What makes you think you can deserve me?
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN DESERVE ME?"
My host fell to His knees as paling lips pushed His plea...
"My son, you can hold perfection in your arms if you wish."
but i sit at a banquet for traitors, placed here between a thief and a liar.
"Just run and hold perfection in your arms as I slip..."
but i'll make you the god of a liar
cause i've been both a saint and a viper.
By grace uneven, at the banquet portrayed, through death, this life is saved.
But I am no king! I am no...
"Open your eyes, child, your sea is changing"
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Good thoughts guys but I think I have this one. This is about Satan trying to pry the faithful from God.
Again, I wake to you...Stand up, these feet are so far from clean. I'm undeserving of the strength in your arms used to save me.
This is what he's thinking just before he falls "asleep", he's speaking to himself first then God, this is the same man from fire dawn I believe. He's keeping himself from God's embrace by labeling himself unworthy.
But years passed when I saw Eve next to me, she's wrapped in low-cut, dripping sensuality.
When he wakes up Eve is next to him feeding into his past inclination toward lust (In All Honesty) Satan has brought the most beautiful traitor of all, Eve.
I remember the host, but it's been so long since we spoke. He said, "My son, you can hold perfection in your arms if you wish."
He's weak, it feels like it's been years since he's spoken to God (The Host being Christ in the Eucharist) "He" is Satan tempting one of God's flock. Perfection being Eve.
But I sit at a banquet for traitors placed here between a thief and a liar.
This is his response to Satans temptation, the thief being Eve (Stole the apple) and a Liar (Satan himself)
But I'll make you the god of a liar cause I've been both a saint and a viper.
He's saying if he gave in he'd be making Satan the god of a liar, he's been a sinner so by turning to Satan his repentance would be a lie.
I am a lie, just like these traitors that cry for forgiving replies but keep their grips held tight. Though my eye's on Eve you're ready to bleed as if I'm royalty but I am no king. I am no king.
At first he's speaking about those already in hell (I'd say purgatory but I'm trying to avoid getting to theological) who refuse to let go of their sins and past transgressions so they can't meet the Lord. Then he comments to Satan about how pathetic it is that he is willing to give up something so precious to one as unimportant as him. He is no King.
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He's at first speaking about the disgusting feast placed before him, next I believe he's speaking about his love for God breaking through the intoxication Satan has put him in, then he turn to Satan knowing his Father is God says "What makes you think you can deserve me?"
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By grace uneven, at the banquet portrayed, through death, this life is saved. But I am no king! I am no... "Open your eyes, child, your sea is changing"
Because God is so good, through Jesus death his life is saved. The line after shows how quickly after his rebuking Satan that God took him into his arms, so quickly he doesn't get to finish his fearful sentence.
"Open your eyes, child, your sea is changing" This is God telling him he's home now.