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"
We live we die too many questions no answers just why
The pain the hate how much longer do we have to wait
We live we die too many questions no answers just why
The pain the hate how much longer do we have to wait
Put on the news and what do I see
The horror of a nation
Forsake the future of the not yet born
Another day another face
Poverty stricken laid to waste
We keep denying the children crying
Self absorbed in our own damn greed
No motivation to live this life that we lead
After the fall after the fall what’s left nothing at all
After the fall after the fall we had a choice we made the call After the fall what's left nothing at all
After the fall we had a choice we made the call
After the fall what’s left nothing at all
After the fall we made the call
We live we die too many questions no answers just why
The pain the hate how much longer do we have to wait
We live we die too many questions no answers just why
The pain the hate how much longer do we have to wait
Crimes of hate race against race
Truth be told how much more can we take
Violence and anguish death tolls rise
The sins are cast open your eyes
We need to learn from the mistakes of the past
A living suicide it won’t be the last
False hope can’t get much worse
Someone tell me why this life is such a curse
After the fall after the fall what's left nothing at all
After the fall after the fall we had a choice we made the call After the tall what's left nothing at all
After the fall we had a choice we made the call
After the fall what’s left nothing at all
After the fall we made the call
We all fall down
The pain the hate how much longer do we have to wait
We live we die too many questions no answers just why
The pain the hate how much longer do we have to wait
Put on the news and what do I see
The horror of a nation
Forsake the future of the not yet born
Another day another face
Poverty stricken laid to waste
We keep denying the children crying
Self absorbed in our own damn greed
No motivation to live this life that we lead
After the fall after the fall what’s left nothing at all
After the fall after the fall we had a choice we made the call After the fall what's left nothing at all
After the fall we had a choice we made the call
After the fall what’s left nothing at all
After the fall we made the call
We live we die too many questions no answers just why
The pain the hate how much longer do we have to wait
We live we die too many questions no answers just why
The pain the hate how much longer do we have to wait
Crimes of hate race against race
Truth be told how much more can we take
Violence and anguish death tolls rise
The sins are cast open your eyes
We need to learn from the mistakes of the past
A living suicide it won’t be the last
False hope can’t get much worse
Someone tell me why this life is such a curse
After the fall after the fall what's left nothing at all
After the fall after the fall we had a choice we made the call After the tall what's left nothing at all
After the fall we had a choice we made the call
After the fall what’s left nothing at all
After the fall we made the call
We all fall down
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