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"
Many choose to find their hope in the thoughts of afterlife
When there is none to be found right here before we die
So I understand the feeling of helplessness
When we are just taught to wait here for death
Wait here for death
Wait for this suffering to end
Wait here for death
Wait for this suffering to end
We are not forgotten
For a kingdom is offered beyond that of golden streets
We can represent now what will one day be complete
Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled
And the powerless rise
This is a kingdom born upside-down
This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned
The "blessings" of excess are only a burden on us
It is a broken system where we just wait for death
It is a broken system where suffering can never end
Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled
And the powerless rise
This is a kingdom born upside-down
This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned
If helplessness is our system
Then we're better off upside-down
When there is none to be found right here before we die
So I understand the feeling of helplessness
When we are just taught to wait here for death
Wait here for death
Wait for this suffering to end
Wait here for death
Wait for this suffering to end
We are not forgotten
For a kingdom is offered beyond that of golden streets
We can represent now what will one day be complete
Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled
And the powerless rise
This is a kingdom born upside-down
This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned
The "blessings" of excess are only a burden on us
It is a broken system where we just wait for death
It is a broken system where suffering can never end
Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled
And the powerless rise
This is a kingdom born upside-down
This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned
If helplessness is our system
Then we're better off upside-down
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Upside Down Kingdom Lyrics as written by Josh Gilbert Jordan D. Mancino
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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YOU ALL ARE SO DAMN STUPID! ITS NOT GOD ITS LUCIFER. Guyya your the dumbest of all. <br /> <br /> Many choose to find their hope in the thoughts of afterlife,<br /> when there is none to be found right here before we die.<br /> So I understand the feeling of helplessness,<br /> when we are just taught to wait here...wait here for death<br /> <br /> people like to think where theyll go when they die. if you live like this band portrays, Hell is your destination. if you so take pride in your destination and follow lucifer, you will be crowned not burned. "this is a kingdom where the BROKEN are crowned" not the HOLY Idiot. <br /> <br /> Wait here for death. Wait for this suffering to end.<br /> Wait here for death. Wait here for death. Wait for this suffering to end<br /> <br /> SATANISMS KEY AMBITION IS DEATH. BECAUSE IF YOU ARE A FOLLOWER, IN HELL YOU WILL BE A HUMAN GOD. (ever wander how chris angel and david blaine have powers) you want to die, thats why they say wait on earth for death. and the suffering will end, simply because you WANT to go to hell and if you have what you want your are no longer suffering. <br /> <br /> We are not forgotten, for a kingdom is offered beyond that of golden streets.<br /> We can represent now what will one day be complete. OHH GUYYA THIS ONE GOT ME AND TOLD ME HOW BLINDED BY FALSE LIGHT YOU REALLY ARE. <br /> <br /> the dead are not forgotten because their is a kingdom offered "BEYOND THOSE OF GOLDEN STREETS" he is saying hell is a stronger place than heaven. "WE CAN REPORESENT NOW WHAT WILL ONE DAY BE COMPLETE" hells alliegience will destroy god. <br /> <br /> Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled<br /> and the powerless rise (and the powerless rise).<br /> This is a kingdom born upside-down.<br /> This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned<br /> <br /> LETS ALL THINK ABOUT WHAT SIMPLICITY REALLY MEANS. IT MEANS YOUR VERRY SMART AND THAT EVEN THE MOST COMPLICATED IDEALS OF LIFE CAN BE FIGURED. Simple, . think about hannibal lector lol. he is also a living demon. they say simplicity,(the power and gift of being a genius)is not a curse, but a gift. this is a kingdom borne upside down, not right side up. ive said enough you all are idiots. im wasting time typing, you all will burn not me:) im in the army, the innocent are just our weapons.