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"
Day after day as I bodies slay
And the sun becomes dark in the sky
Everything's lost for this human race
And the dawn of a new age will rise
Rays of sunlight now are gone
Only visions of ice will remain
The fallen ones and forgotten souls
Will rise up over the slain
No more hope
As we raise our hands to the sky
No more dreams
As the rivers run dry
Everything's lost all is left astray
Only sorrow and sadness remains
The curtains have dropped on our fallen world
And the forces of darkness shall rise
Why can't you see what has happened to thee
Can you not open your eyes?
Everything's lost there is no retreat
And the valleys echo with pain
No more hope
As we raise our hands to the sky
No more dreams
As the rivers run dry
On the endless sea of madness we sail forever more
And the endless tears of sadness towards the distant shores
When the flame has died forever we stand one and all
With the power of the almighty sword
We fight the battle on the fields tonight
To save us from the master of all evil sign
And to the battle on,
Forever standing strong
We feel the fire power of the night warriors
No more tomorrow
Dying of sorrow
Over the mountains and up through the trees
Traveling across seven seas
No more hope
as we hold our hands to the sky
No more dreams
as the rivers run dry
On the endless seas of madness we sail forever more
And the endless tears of sadness towards the distant shores
When the flame has died forever we stand one and all
With the power of the almighty sword
We fight the battle on the fields tonight
To save us from the master of all evil sign
And to the battle on,
Forever standing strong
We feel the fire power of the night warriors
On the endless seas of madness we sail forever more
And the endless tears of sadness towards the distant shores
When the flame has died forever we stand one and all
With the power of the almighty sword
We fight the battle on the fields tonight
To save us from the master of all evil sign
And to the battle on,
Forever standing strong
We feel the fire power of the night warriors
And the sun becomes dark in the sky
Everything's lost for this human race
And the dawn of a new age will rise
Rays of sunlight now are gone
Only visions of ice will remain
The fallen ones and forgotten souls
Will rise up over the slain
No more hope
As we raise our hands to the sky
No more dreams
As the rivers run dry
Everything's lost all is left astray
Only sorrow and sadness remains
The curtains have dropped on our fallen world
And the forces of darkness shall rise
Why can't you see what has happened to thee
Can you not open your eyes?
Everything's lost there is no retreat
And the valleys echo with pain
No more hope
As we raise our hands to the sky
No more dreams
As the rivers run dry
On the endless sea of madness we sail forever more
And the endless tears of sadness towards the distant shores
When the flame has died forever we stand one and all
With the power of the almighty sword
We fight the battle on the fields tonight
To save us from the master of all evil sign
And to the battle on,
Forever standing strong
We feel the fire power of the night warriors
No more tomorrow
Dying of sorrow
Over the mountains and up through the trees
Traveling across seven seas
No more hope
as we hold our hands to the sky
No more dreams
as the rivers run dry
On the endless seas of madness we sail forever more
And the endless tears of sadness towards the distant shores
When the flame has died forever we stand one and all
With the power of the almighty sword
We fight the battle on the fields tonight
To save us from the master of all evil sign
And to the battle on,
Forever standing strong
We feel the fire power of the night warriors
On the endless seas of madness we sail forever more
And the endless tears of sadness towards the distant shores
When the flame has died forever we stand one and all
With the power of the almighty sword
We fight the battle on the fields tonight
To save us from the master of all evil sign
And to the battle on,
Forever standing strong
We feel the fire power of the night warriors
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Black Winter Night Lyrics as written by Herman Li Vadim Pruzhanov
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Royalty Network
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