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"
Remember those good times we had
I thought you were my friend
What I felt to be a dream
Just a nightmare in the end
I trusted you, you trusted me
Nothing could go wrong
Until I finally figured out
You were evil all along
What I'd give to see you gone
I never felt this way before
I'd love to see that face you make
When I walk out the door
'Cause God can't save you from all your sins
When you threw your life away you let the devil in
Now I can't save you, I know you too well
Like everyone and everything you drag me, you drag me to hell
Drag me
Drag me
Drag me
Trapped inside these prison walls
With no way to escape
What I felt to be my life
Was just a big mistake
I thought of you, I thought it through
Everything was clear
The only way from this cage
Was for you to disappear
What I'd give to see you gone
I'm sure you've heard this all before
I'd love to see that face you make
When I walk out the door
'Cause God can't save you from all your sins
When you threw your life away you let the devil in
Now I can't save you, I know you too well
Like everyone and everything you drag me, you drag me to hell
Drag me
Drag me
Drag me
You drag me to hell
I hope you had fun
Now that we're done
It's over this time
I'm on to your lies
Get it through your head
Our love is dead
I don't think about you
No, I don't think about you anymore, anymore
'Cause God can't save you from all your sins
When you threw your life away you let the devil in
No, I can't save you, I know you too well
Like everyone and everything you drag me, you drag me to hell
Drag me
Drag me
Drag me
You drag me to hell
Drag me
Drag me
Drag me
You drag me to hell
Drag me
Drag me
Drag me
You drag me to hell
I thought you were my friend
What I felt to be a dream
Just a nightmare in the end
I trusted you, you trusted me
Nothing could go wrong
Until I finally figured out
You were evil all along
What I'd give to see you gone
I never felt this way before
I'd love to see that face you make
When I walk out the door
'Cause God can't save you from all your sins
When you threw your life away you let the devil in
Now I can't save you, I know you too well
Like everyone and everything you drag me, you drag me to hell
Drag me
Drag me
Drag me
Trapped inside these prison walls
With no way to escape
What I felt to be my life
Was just a big mistake
I thought of you, I thought it through
Everything was clear
The only way from this cage
Was for you to disappear
What I'd give to see you gone
I'm sure you've heard this all before
I'd love to see that face you make
When I walk out the door
'Cause God can't save you from all your sins
When you threw your life away you let the devil in
Now I can't save you, I know you too well
Like everyone and everything you drag me, you drag me to hell
Drag me
Drag me
Drag me
You drag me to hell
I hope you had fun
Now that we're done
It's over this time
I'm on to your lies
Get it through your head
Our love is dead
I don't think about you
No, I don't think about you anymore, anymore
'Cause God can't save you from all your sins
When you threw your life away you let the devil in
No, I can't save you, I know you too well
Like everyone and everything you drag me, you drag me to hell
Drag me
Drag me
Drag me
You drag me to hell
Drag me
Drag me
Drag me
You drag me to hell
Drag me
Drag me
Drag me
You drag me to hell
Lyrics submitted by MusicFREAK20
Drag Me to Hell Lyrics as written by Dean Henning Back David J. Brenner
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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