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"
No one get's left behind, another fallen soul
No one gets left behind, another broken home
No one gets left behind, we stand and fight together
No one gets left behind, or we all die alone
Politicians banking in their greed
No idea on how to be all they can be
Have you no honor have you no soul
What is it they're dying for do you really even know
Have you no backbone have you no spine
Whatever happened to no one gets left behind,
No one gets left behind, I know you made it up
No one gets left behind, it's more for money
No one gets left behind, drink from the golden cup
No one gets left behind, your turn is coming
Play your war games with other people's lives
It should be you on the front line
Have you no honor, have you no soul
What is it they're dying for, do you really even know
Have you no backbone, have you no spine
Whatever happened to no one gets left behind
Have you no honor, have you no soul
What is it they're dying for, do you really even know
Have you no backbone, have you no spine
Whatever happened to no one gets left behind
No one gets left behind
No one gets left behind
No one gets left behind
No one gets left behind
No one gets left behind
No one gets left behind, another broken home
No one gets left behind, we stand and fight together
No one gets left behind, or we all die alone
Politicians banking in their greed
No idea on how to be all they can be
Have you no honor have you no soul
What is it they're dying for do you really even know
Have you no backbone have you no spine
Whatever happened to no one gets left behind,
No one gets left behind, I know you made it up
No one gets left behind, it's more for money
No one gets left behind, drink from the golden cup
No one gets left behind, your turn is coming
Play your war games with other people's lives
It should be you on the front line
Have you no honor, have you no soul
What is it they're dying for, do you really even know
Have you no backbone, have you no spine
Whatever happened to no one gets left behind
Have you no honor, have you no soul
What is it they're dying for, do you really even know
Have you no backbone, have you no spine
Whatever happened to no one gets left behind
No one gets left behind
No one gets left behind
No one gets left behind
No one gets left behind
No one gets left behind
Lyrics submitted by Sonic Raider
No One Gets Left Behind Lyrics as written by Jason Hook Ivan Moody
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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This song isn't against war. It's against the idiots up in Washington who use it for all the wrong reasons. And fwi - saying you support the troops but NOT the war is the BIGGEST cop out you can say. The troops are fighting the war for us so you better damn well support it!
I disagree. I think supporting the troops and not the war makes perfect sense. To this day, I'm scratching my head as to why President Bush ordered the War in Iraq, but I REFUSE to believe it had to do with oil because that theory just doesn't make sense. However, while I don't understand the War in Iraq, I can still stand behind our troops over there, and hope they get the job done so they can come home sooner. Because whether we like it or not, a responsibility has been thrust upon them, and it's their duty to carry it out, and I believe that while we don't agree with our politicians, it's our duty as Americans to support the boys and girls over there.
I'm glad you support the war and commend you for separating the two. But, the declaration of war had a lot to do with supporting the "Rebels" against the Saddam Regime. We set the stage for "uprising" in the Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm. It became very obvious that the "Rebels" couldn't do it themselves, as they didn't have armoured capabilities and bigger weapons to carry it out.<br /> <br /> While our country made up a lie of WMD to get it done... the war was just and right and the country is much much much closer to becoming an organized and "Just" country.<br /> <br /> I spent 2 tours in the "Sand Box" known as Iraq. I saw it first hand... the country's people embraced us during liberation, but we fell short and they got the short end of the stick when we had no SOLID exit strategy... that's what we did wrong. We have left a country pretty FUBAR.<br /> <br /> Thank you fr your support and I understand your views.<br /> <br />
I disagree man not all troops going overseas agree with the war ive recently joined the marines and i dont agree with the war but im more than ready to fight and even die for my country.
@Armadio2 I think you have a good point there. But I don't think supporting the troops but not the war is a contradiction. Maybe you don't believe that the cause is worth fighting for. You said yourself that idiots in Washington use it for all the fucking wrong reasons. I will admit though it can be confusing but there is some nuance to it.