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"
Denim, studs and leather all the way
They call him a wilfull gambler who's going astray
Looking for a grain of fortune for feeling alive
But the know-all and riff-raff never dies
The law demands it's order
He's bored with all their lies
He can't take it any longer,
His anger will arise
He's a lone wolf, furious and castaway
Yes, he's a lone wolf
And he's on the prowl again
He's totally disobedient and he's strong
They disparage and revile him,
Saying that he is wrong
Unmercifully accused of living free
But the denial of the truth is not a spree
The law demands it's order
He's bored with all their lies
He can't take it any longer,
His anger will arise
He's a lone wolf, furious and castaway
Yes, he's a lone wolf and he's on the prowl again
He's a lone wolf, furious and castaway
Yes, he's a lone wolf and he's on the prowl again
Yes, he's a lone wolf
Yes, he's a lone wolf
A lone wolf on the prowl again
The wrath and the revolution
Are rising on and on
The youth stands strong and tight
Until the " War " is won
Politicians and the church are running down the youth
They're trying oh, so hard to twist the truth
The law demands it's order
He's bored with all their lies
He can't take it any longer,
His anger will arise
He's a lone wolf, furious and castaway
Yes, he's a lone wolf and he's on the prowl again
He's a lone wolf, furious and castaway
Yes, he's a lone wolf and he's on the prowl again
They call him a wilfull gambler who's going astray
Looking for a grain of fortune for feeling alive
But the know-all and riff-raff never dies
The law demands it's order
He's bored with all their lies
He can't take it any longer,
His anger will arise
He's a lone wolf, furious and castaway
Yes, he's a lone wolf
And he's on the prowl again
He's totally disobedient and he's strong
They disparage and revile him,
Saying that he is wrong
Unmercifully accused of living free
But the denial of the truth is not a spree
The law demands it's order
He's bored with all their lies
He can't take it any longer,
His anger will arise
He's a lone wolf, furious and castaway
Yes, he's a lone wolf and he's on the prowl again
He's a lone wolf, furious and castaway
Yes, he's a lone wolf and he's on the prowl again
Yes, he's a lone wolf
Yes, he's a lone wolf
A lone wolf on the prowl again
The wrath and the revolution
Are rising on and on
The youth stands strong and tight
Until the " War " is won
Politicians and the church are running down the youth
They're trying oh, so hard to twist the truth
The law demands it's order
He's bored with all their lies
He can't take it any longer,
His anger will arise
He's a lone wolf, furious and castaway
Yes, he's a lone wolf and he's on the prowl again
He's a lone wolf, furious and castaway
Yes, he's a lone wolf and he's on the prowl again
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