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"
Reckless abandon, coming undone
Survive the swallow, decade of ruin gone
I found myself in trenches tonight
Regret runs wild as darkness kills all the lights
All the lights have died
Slow dose of hell stripping what's left
Sleepless for days on end
And ingest life on all sides
I can't be reached in this soulless design
Capsized my insides, hours inch by
Inviting the lions to all take a piece
Destroyed by endless ends, looking to cease
Searching the city to no avail
Can't find me anywhere, winds out of sail
I found myself in trenches tonight
Regret runs wild as darkness kills all the lights
All the lights have died
Slow dose of hell stripping what's left
Sleepless for days on end
And ingest life on all sides
I need a search light to make amends
From the insides out to looking in
On the strength of its test
A full blooded sense of life
Lived far beyond the comfort zone
Ghosts remain on auto pilot looking to cancel out
A brief breath of air in darkness
Survive in doubt
Survive the swallow, decade of ruin gone
I found myself in trenches tonight
Regret runs wild as darkness kills all the lights
All the lights have died
Slow dose of hell stripping what's left
Sleepless for days on end
And ingest life on all sides
I can't be reached in this soulless design
Capsized my insides, hours inch by
Inviting the lions to all take a piece
Destroyed by endless ends, looking to cease
Searching the city to no avail
Can't find me anywhere, winds out of sail
I found myself in trenches tonight
Regret runs wild as darkness kills all the lights
All the lights have died
Slow dose of hell stripping what's left
Sleepless for days on end
And ingest life on all sides
I need a search light to make amends
From the insides out to looking in
On the strength of its test
A full blooded sense of life
Lived far beyond the comfort zone
Ghosts remain on auto pilot looking to cancel out
A brief breath of air in darkness
Survive in doubt
Lyrics submitted by Elective Amnesia
Trenches Lyrics as written by Brock Nicholas Lindow Steven Matthew Holt
Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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