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"
The premonition
Remember when I told you how my
Kin is different in some ways?
And how you should not fall in love
With someone like me, anyway
Between the lines, people see signs
When they feel the sear, every day's fear
And one night their torches
Find the girl without a name
And the one who has her
Love is no more safe
And until I get my peace I'm but a shade
(The witch-hunt)
The sun lit the white mountain's snow covered peaks,
There I see you, amongst the good people, suffering
She is the one, the unwanted, decidedly so,
'Cause she makes our children cry.
It's a fact, she is exactly that!
A harbinger of death from the world of witchcraft,
And she's feeding them cakes and her ale to this innocent boy,
And her magic brings dismay
(Exposing the heathen)
"I hear her in the wind, the bane of our town
Come with me, father, I'm to expose a heathen"
In my home town
No one's safe now
Young love's been forbidden
For five-fold kisses, my only love had to die
(Envy)
"Your crops are all flourishing, so what's the catch?
I know what you are, the new evil unhatched
As sure as the dawn, they will hear what I know,
And recognize you, and you'll be cleansed too"
(The fear)
For the good, trusting people in town,
In their fear stricken hearts,
Seeing skyclad's a sign like the deathaura,
Every night, so painful's the memory of love in the dark.
One wheel of the year ends their short lives in fear
"I hear her in the wind, the bane of our town.
Come with me, oh, father the heathen is exposed."
(The grudge)
In the age of burning times, you saved my life
The blaze grew ever higher.
I was your cunning man, hiding in the light,
Now your land shall go sour
Your own fears will destroy everything
Envy consumes all, and "thou shall not"
Though it hurts, I must tell you
"I am truly the one
Behind it all"
(The curse)
In the hands of time we all will die
The dead of night will devour your child
The creation o' beliefs you've been fed
The fear, the unknown, the poison loved by death.
(The flames)
In the cool of the night air
Flames purify minds, where
Almost anyone could be the next
"Unless morning finds all of them somehow hexed"
(Endless inquisition)
(Together, today, for all eternity)
I remember how you told me,
Your kin's different, on that sunny day?
You made me smile,
'Cause I was just about to say the same thing
So deeply entwined, love of a lifetime
But they paid someone to say their torment has a name
And after all these years we get to be together for all eternity
Remember when I told you how my
Kin is different in some ways?
And how you should not fall in love
With someone like me, anyway
Between the lines, people see signs
When they feel the sear, every day's fear
And one night their torches
Find the girl without a name
And the one who has her
Love is no more safe
And until I get my peace I'm but a shade
(The witch-hunt)
The sun lit the white mountain's snow covered peaks,
There I see you, amongst the good people, suffering
She is the one, the unwanted, decidedly so,
'Cause she makes our children cry.
It's a fact, she is exactly that!
A harbinger of death from the world of witchcraft,
And she's feeding them cakes and her ale to this innocent boy,
And her magic brings dismay
(Exposing the heathen)
"I hear her in the wind, the bane of our town
Come with me, father, I'm to expose a heathen"
In my home town
No one's safe now
Young love's been forbidden
For five-fold kisses, my only love had to die
(Envy)
"Your crops are all flourishing, so what's the catch?
I know what you are, the new evil unhatched
As sure as the dawn, they will hear what I know,
And recognize you, and you'll be cleansed too"
(The fear)
For the good, trusting people in town,
In their fear stricken hearts,
Seeing skyclad's a sign like the deathaura,
Every night, so painful's the memory of love in the dark.
One wheel of the year ends their short lives in fear
"I hear her in the wind, the bane of our town.
Come with me, oh, father the heathen is exposed."
(The grudge)
In the age of burning times, you saved my life
The blaze grew ever higher.
I was your cunning man, hiding in the light,
Now your land shall go sour
Your own fears will destroy everything
Envy consumes all, and "thou shall not"
Though it hurts, I must tell you
"I am truly the one
Behind it all"
(The curse)
In the hands of time we all will die
The dead of night will devour your child
The creation o' beliefs you've been fed
The fear, the unknown, the poison loved by death.
(The flames)
In the cool of the night air
Flames purify minds, where
Almost anyone could be the next
"Unless morning finds all of them somehow hexed"
(Endless inquisition)
(Together, today, for all eternity)
I remember how you told me,
Your kin's different, on that sunny day?
You made me smile,
'Cause I was just about to say the same thing
So deeply entwined, love of a lifetime
But they paid someone to say their torment has a name
And after all these years we get to be together for all eternity
Lyrics submitted by HystericRomance
Deathaura Lyrics as written by Henrik Klingenberg Elias Viljanen
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I'm a bit confused by some parts of this song so I'm not too sure about my interpretation.
So the young girl is accused of being a witch and is killed, now at the beginning of the song she says; "Remember when I told you how my Kin is different in some ways? And how you should not fall in love With someone like me" Well I take it she is saying she's different because she's really a witch.
"In my home town No one's safe now" I think it means that after she is accused and killed others will start getting blame for things and accused as well of witchcraft and then killed.
In the "Envy" part TimeWeaver explained it very well except that for me in this part the girl was already dead and by now they had already started picking on others and so they decide accuse the girl's lover for having better crops than the rest of witchcraft.
"In their fear stricken hearts, Seeing skyclad's a sign like the Deathaura" They are so afraid that anything they find or see unusal they thing is bad and blame it on witches.
"The Grudge" confuses me because I don't know who is talking there and who is the one saying "I am truly the One ...Behind it all..." I don't think is the girl because I'm sure she dies in [Exposing The Heathen] and if it was the girl why didn't Johanna sing that part?
In [The Flames] obviously someone is getiing burned, it could be the girl but again since I beleive the girl to be dead already I was thinking it was the guy. "Unless morning finds all of them somehow hexed..." I think this line is sarcastic because I thik what it saying is "unless in the morning they have all snap out of it and stop freaking out about everything" which is unlikely.
In [...Together, Today, For All Eternity] the guy is dead and so he and the girl will be together for eternity in death.
"I remember how you told me, Your kin's different, on that sunny day?" "You made me smile, 'cause I was just about to say the same thing..." They are both dead by now and together so they are chatting in the after life and he just confessed to her that he was also into witchcraft so he was different as well.
"But they paid someone to say their torment has a name" Someone was promised a reward if it brought forth who or what was causing problems in the town since something was to blame for babies crying, bad crops, and colorful lines in the skys, and so it all began.
"And after all these years we get to be together for all eternity..." Yeah, they are dead.
Also one of the things that led me to believe that she dies in [Exposing The Heathen] is this line that is reapeted several times "I hear her in the wind, the bane of our town" and this as well "And until I get my peace I'm but a shade..."
I love this song and the story is so sad.