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"
Never could we see
What lies deeper
Seeming that our view
Can't be changed
Deciding where to go
And believe in your disaster
Deleting a future untold
This is the final deceiver
This is the devil in me
Expecting deeds in the making
Will show no final relief
Ever would we dance
With the reaper
Seething in a monstrous cage
Ideas meant to placate
When meeting your disaster
Are only for a desperate fool
Destructive thoughts to mislead us
Can come from deep underground
Believing sources unbroken
Will tear the legion apart
Will we be forever free as we unchain our souls
From life forever
You are just a slave to the dust
Another time, where you and me will be freed
With one more last endeavor
You cannot escape your fate now
No
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you pleas guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me, my light's ending
On a night when I find, I'll take my final flight
Now come and see divinity where night turns day
So far away from heaven
You will never earn my trust
Provoke the need, give word to deed
And dive into another God-like atmosphere
You will never find you way out
No
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you pleas guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me, my light's ending
On a night when I find, I'll take my final flight
I'd rather die
Than breathe in my shame
They'll know my name
All Hell in flames
For our faith
We proudly die
For it we would die
For our sovereign
All Hell will arise
We'll serve our cause
In earning reward
Collision of skies
The ocean wept dry
Every ocean dry
Another's desperation flying through the emptiness
As my degradation throws me out of line
Take the final flight
Into the serenade forever lost in time
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you pleas guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me, my light's ending
On a night when I find, I'll take my final flight
What lies deeper
Seeming that our view
Can't be changed
Deciding where to go
And believe in your disaster
Deleting a future untold
This is the final deceiver
This is the devil in me
Expecting deeds in the making
Will show no final relief
Ever would we dance
With the reaper
Seething in a monstrous cage
Ideas meant to placate
When meeting your disaster
Are only for a desperate fool
Destructive thoughts to mislead us
Can come from deep underground
Believing sources unbroken
Will tear the legion apart
Will we be forever free as we unchain our souls
From life forever
You are just a slave to the dust
Another time, where you and me will be freed
With one more last endeavor
You cannot escape your fate now
No
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you pleas guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me, my light's ending
On a night when I find, I'll take my final flight
Now come and see divinity where night turns day
So far away from heaven
You will never earn my trust
Provoke the need, give word to deed
And dive into another God-like atmosphere
You will never find you way out
No
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you pleas guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me, my light's ending
On a night when I find, I'll take my final flight
I'd rather die
Than breathe in my shame
They'll know my name
All Hell in flames
For our faith
We proudly die
For it we would die
For our sovereign
All Hell will arise
We'll serve our cause
In earning reward
Collision of skies
The ocean wept dry
Every ocean dry
Another's desperation flying through the emptiness
As my degradation throws me out of line
Take the final flight
Into the serenade forever lost in time
Try me, don't deny me
Please embrace me in your peace
I want to fly into the bright
Would you pleas guide my last goodbye
Why won't you lie with me, my light's ending
On a night when I find, I'll take my final flight
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This song talks about suicide. It talks about 3 types of suicides. 1 - For religion (Like muslim bombermans) 2 - For honor ( like samurais) 3 - Crap, I dont quite remember this one. I think has something to do with anomic suicide ( search for Emile Durkheim´s concept of anomic suicide if you are interested)
Simones actually talks about her inspiration to write this music, the son of her mother-in-law´s bestfriend died and she said she´d write a music about it, and then this was created :)
The interview is on youtube - youtube.com/watch
Actually in the interview she said "regular suicide" and for "religion" and "honor", like you said.