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"
Constant, Pulsing
Wash over me
All the old ways dried and tired waiting on the shore
Just as well one ill will deserves another
Bare to watch? Its all I can afford
Believed everything you've seen
You must prepare for....
The Wake
Along for the ride
You want to believe, but whats perceived
Is nothing compared to the Wake
The more that you take, the less that you stand
Treading lightly with no where to land for the wake
The Wake, no where to land for the Wake
The Wake
Believe everything they've caught on tape
The meaning scrolling left to right
Truth be told one ill turn deserves another
The price we hold has only lost its weight
Believe everything you see
You must prepare for...
The Wake
Along for the ride
Your staring at something but nothing ever comes to mind
For the Wake
The more that you take, the less that you stand
Driving slowly and stirring up sand for the Wake
The Wake...stirring up sand for the Wake, The Wake
Forecast through broken glass
Their meetings break for recess
Its not their homes
The lord of wanting more
Though I can hardly afford what they've paid
Their raping fee has no break
You must prepare for..
The Wake
Along for the ride
Your staring at something but nothing ever comes to mind for
The Wake
The more that you take, the less that you stand
Treading lightly with no where to land for the wake
The Wake stirring up sand for the wake
The Wake
Wash over me
All the old ways dried and tired waiting on the shore
Just as well one ill will deserves another
Bare to watch? Its all I can afford
Believed everything you've seen
You must prepare for....
The Wake
Along for the ride
You want to believe, but whats perceived
Is nothing compared to the Wake
The more that you take, the less that you stand
Treading lightly with no where to land for the wake
The Wake, no where to land for the Wake
The Wake
Believe everything they've caught on tape
The meaning scrolling left to right
Truth be told one ill turn deserves another
The price we hold has only lost its weight
Believe everything you see
You must prepare for...
The Wake
Along for the ride
Your staring at something but nothing ever comes to mind
For the Wake
The more that you take, the less that you stand
Driving slowly and stirring up sand for the Wake
The Wake...stirring up sand for the Wake, The Wake
Forecast through broken glass
Their meetings break for recess
Its not their homes
The lord of wanting more
Though I can hardly afford what they've paid
Their raping fee has no break
You must prepare for..
The Wake
Along for the ride
Your staring at something but nothing ever comes to mind for
The Wake
The more that you take, the less that you stand
Treading lightly with no where to land for the wake
The Wake stirring up sand for the wake
The Wake
Lyrics submitted by slipvayne94bm
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