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"
Your sting red full stops my skin, dotted, scratch scratch, now I'm bleeding.
Legions upon legions of craftsmen handmade my feelings.
There's bears in the wood and they're out to get me,
And I'm safe from harm if I stay in this chalet.
And hold me tight and I'll sink in,
I'm absorbed in your thinking,
And you don't know.
Your sting red full stops my skin, dotted, scratch scratch, now I'm bleeding.
Legions upon legions of craftsmen handmade my feelings
For you.
Legions upon legions of craftsmen handmade my feelings.
There's bears in the wood and they're out to get me,
And I'm safe from harm if I stay in this chalet.
And hold me tight and I'll sink in,
I'm absorbed in your thinking,
And you don't know.
Your sting red full stops my skin, dotted, scratch scratch, now I'm bleeding.
Legions upon legions of craftsmen handmade my feelings
For you.
Lyrics submitted by shemovesshe
Hand-Made Lyrics as written by Gwilym David Dylan Sainsbury Augustus Figaro Niso Unger-hamilton
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Let me break it down for you guys: He says "Your sting red full stops my skin, dotted, scratch scratch, now I’m bleeding" , this if anything is a clear reference to shooting stuff up your veins, I mean I haven't done it before, but I can read between the lines He then mentions that "Legions upon legions of craftsmen handmade my feelings", I don't know about you guys but I'am not stupid enough to not know that most chemical drugs, E's for one, are made somewhere in a lab with raw chemicals, but if you get the good stuff, before its cut to give out on the streets, you can truly get a "craftsmen" quality of a time ;) hehe Next the woman's voice, shes like "sitting comfortably? then lets begin" This is talking about those few seconds before the drugs hit you, as your coming up, it is the most amazing feeling ever, and you feel at one with the world, and yourself, and you have such feelings of pure love in your heart, and you feel safe and content in the place you are, like there's "bears in the woods and their out to get me" but "i'm safe safe from harm if I stay in this chalet" and also the next part, "hold me tight and i'll sink in", it genuinely felt like I had a warm blanket covering me, so content I was "absorbed in your thinking" like being on good E's, amazing it felt listening to this song, "And you dont know" how amazing it felt being there in that feeling. Like I would be happy to take those again "for you" the "feelings" that the "craftsmen handmade" ;)
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@Goldsamurei Possibly could be right!