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"
I hate everything I am becoming
This change is torture
There is never enough to give, only plenty to take
And this I wage
When the ground parts from below, will it feel so?
How can I gain from another when the other goes?
This hand, this hurt, my heart
I'll flirt with disaster
Just know now, man, the deal is off
I'll be no good, this time defines
I'll put my touch around the grip of this knife
These dirty hands just won't come clean
I'm a murderer, the worst these worlds will see
Mercy, please leave her just a little bit longer
She's all my world
My love, I apologize, with that you will see the end of days
Just rest assured
'Cause they won't let her go
And I will remain so alone
To work on a clever way to get her home
I will do what I must
I'll flirt with disaster
Just know now, boy, you're out of luck
I'll be no good, this time defines
I'll put my touch around the grip of this knife
These dirty hands just won't come clean
I'm a murderer, the worst these worlds will see
Oh, save me from defeat again
This is war
Murdered the one so close
While she trusts, you curse
"Die, my darling"
If only you'd known
How lovely you glow in the flame of error
Oh, I ask too much
Please, turn back the clock and take me instead
How have you come to lose
The only thing, the other one to your two?
I've become the wrong in everyone's sleep
Please burn me a god
I'll be no good, this time defines
I'll put my touch around the grip of this knife
These dirty hands just won't come clean
I'm a murderer, the worst these worlds will see
Oh, save me from defeat again
This is war
Murdered the one so close
While she trusts, you curse
"Die, my darling"
I'll be no good, this time defines
I'll put my touch around the grip of this knife
These dirty hands just won't come clean
I'm a murderer, the worst these worlds will see
Oh, save me from defeat again
Oh, save me from defeat again
This change is torture
There is never enough to give, only plenty to take
And this I wage
When the ground parts from below, will it feel so?
How can I gain from another when the other goes?
This hand, this hurt, my heart
I'll flirt with disaster
Just know now, man, the deal is off
I'll be no good, this time defines
I'll put my touch around the grip of this knife
These dirty hands just won't come clean
I'm a murderer, the worst these worlds will see
Mercy, please leave her just a little bit longer
She's all my world
My love, I apologize, with that you will see the end of days
Just rest assured
'Cause they won't let her go
And I will remain so alone
To work on a clever way to get her home
I will do what I must
I'll flirt with disaster
Just know now, boy, you're out of luck
I'll be no good, this time defines
I'll put my touch around the grip of this knife
These dirty hands just won't come clean
I'm a murderer, the worst these worlds will see
Oh, save me from defeat again
This is war
Murdered the one so close
While she trusts, you curse
"Die, my darling"
If only you'd known
How lovely you glow in the flame of error
Oh, I ask too much
Please, turn back the clock and take me instead
How have you come to lose
The only thing, the other one to your two?
I've become the wrong in everyone's sleep
Please burn me a god
I'll be no good, this time defines
I'll put my touch around the grip of this knife
These dirty hands just won't come clean
I'm a murderer, the worst these worlds will see
Oh, save me from defeat again
This is war
Murdered the one so close
While she trusts, you curse
"Die, my darling"
I'll be no good, this time defines
I'll put my touch around the grip of this knife
These dirty hands just won't come clean
I'm a murderer, the worst these worlds will see
Oh, save me from defeat again
Oh, save me from defeat again
Lyrics submitted by Bskiffington
In the Flame of Error Lyrics as written by Travis Stever Claudio Sanchez
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