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 hate you more than any word can describe,
Wish you were dead, and I will live till you die,
Destroy the dreams of everyone you control,
Now that I'm above you, the deceit can be told,
A separation of a chance that must take,
Under calculations have been digging your grave,
Open the book to endless chapters I read,
I will know the tmth that brings you down on your knees,
Uncovered secret, exposing their crime
Confronting them is just a matter of time.
Without an option, or way to escape,
You have pay for the mistakes that you made.
The game is over, now run to the light,
Your lack of vision will restore what is mine.
In Preservation of your life of mystic
A reparation that at last will be seen,
Untouched by the hand of god,
Look what it has done to us.
Worry in the house of thieves,
Overlooking everything,
Untouched by the hand of god,
Your compassion never was,
Cut the cord of agony,
Bitterness, uncertainty, [trail Into Lead]
Their recollection of events is a lie,
Woe and suffering has always been on the mind,
Beyond myself the misery that you've caused,
Step into my circle and your life will be lost,
You seem to think that I'm to do what I'm told,
Over superstitious from the stories of old,
Your putrid essence and the scriptures of god,
Leave me un removed from my belief in Satan.
Wish you were dead, and I will live till you die,
Destroy the dreams of everyone you control,
Now that I'm above you, the deceit can be told,
A separation of a chance that must take,
Under calculations have been digging your grave,
Open the book to endless chapters I read,
I will know the tmth that brings you down on your knees,
Uncovered secret, exposing their crime
Confronting them is just a matter of time.
Without an option, or way to escape,
You have pay for the mistakes that you made.
The game is over, now run to the light,
Your lack of vision will restore what is mine.
In Preservation of your life of mystic
A reparation that at last will be seen,
Untouched by the hand of god,
Look what it has done to us.
Worry in the house of thieves,
Overlooking everything,
Untouched by the hand of god,
Your compassion never was,
Cut the cord of agony,
Bitterness, uncertainty, [trail Into Lead]
Their recollection of events is a lie,
Woe and suffering has always been on the mind,
Beyond myself the misery that you've caused,
Step into my circle and your life will be lost,
You seem to think that I'm to do what I'm told,
Over superstitious from the stories of old,
Your putrid essence and the scriptures of god,
Leave me un removed from my belief in Satan.
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