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 am the most unhappy man.
I have unwittingly ruined my country.
A great industrial nation is now destroyed by its system of credit.
We're slowly shattering silhouettes of a glass society.
From the depths of you shed the diamond.
From Wilshire to Grand Central buildings will crumble (crumble) structures to piles.
You tell me this jury is this dollar loaned to me.
Labeled the catalyst, the X amount and it is recycled back to me.
Recycled back to me.
Live for this vivid vision.
A vision I see, a vision for you.
A vision for you.
From my window, I could see exploding lights underneath the veil over the speedway.
I burst right through the sky.
And stumble in the clouds.
I see you in a million dimensions.
Now you are finally found.
I wrote all night long.
We always did exactly what we were told.
They never wanted us to know.
I wrote all night long.
A vision of a place that we call home.
About a lifetime that we once knew.
They never wanted us to know.
The age of innocence.
A vision of a place that we call home.
The story of the oversaw.
Oversaw.
Your loyalty means nothing to me.
Expect to be stopped, not to be fucked.
We try to break the boundaries.
My mind is numb.
Entire cities washed away.
This micro chip upon a new contradiction is a new contrary.
I have unwittingly ruined my country.
A great industrial nation is now destroyed by its system of credit.
We're slowly shattering silhouettes of a glass society.
From the depths of you shed the diamond.
From Wilshire to Grand Central buildings will crumble (crumble) structures to piles.
You tell me this jury is this dollar loaned to me.
Labeled the catalyst, the X amount and it is recycled back to me.
Recycled back to me.
Live for this vivid vision.
A vision I see, a vision for you.
A vision for you.
From my window, I could see exploding lights underneath the veil over the speedway.
I burst right through the sky.
And stumble in the clouds.
I see you in a million dimensions.
Now you are finally found.
I wrote all night long.
We always did exactly what we were told.
They never wanted us to know.
I wrote all night long.
A vision of a place that we call home.
About a lifetime that we once knew.
They never wanted us to know.
The age of innocence.
A vision of a place that we call home.
The story of the oversaw.
Oversaw.
Your loyalty means nothing to me.
Expect to be stopped, not to be fucked.
We try to break the boundaries.
My mind is numb.
Entire cities washed away.
This micro chip upon a new contradiction is a new contrary.
Lyrics submitted by BornOfMaya, edited by bac0n
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I am the most unhappy man I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now destroyed by it's system of credit.
We're slowly shattering silhouettes of a glass society. From the depths of you sheds the diamond.
From Wilshire to Grand Central buildings will crumble, structures to piles.
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Recycled back to me.
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From my window I could see exploding lights underneath the veil, over the speedway.
Guilt for this (?) I punctured the night sky, distilled, pulling the clouds. I see you in a million different stars, now you are finally found.
I wrote all night long. (We always did exactly what we were told.) They never wanted us to know. (I wrote all night long.) A vision of a place that we call home. (About a lifetime that we once knew.) They never wanted us to know. (The age of innocence.) A vision of a place that we call home. (The story of the oversaw.)
Your loyalty means nothing to me. Expect to be stopped, not to be fucked. We try to break the boundaries. My mind is numb, entire cities washed away. This micro chip upon a new contradiction is a new contrary.