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"
Lonely in a void where people are dying to live
Weary of the stories that unfold before my eyes
A clenched fist can feel so strong
A lion's heart unable to break
Though a fire burns inside,
these fates are not for this lion to decide upon
Tied to a leash poisoned by untruth
Entangled in the web of a distant order
The iron hand has the lightest touch
Caresses the shells of the hollow and cold
See wind carry dust of withering lives
I see towers collapse to the ground
I lose you just the way that you lost me
I tie myself up as much as you refuse to set me free
It seems inevitable, it always was and always will be
We were always destined to belong to everyone else
(x2)
Weary of the stories that unfold before my eyes
A clenched fist can feel so strong
A lion's heart unable to break
Though a fire burns inside,
these fates are not for this lion to decide upon
Tied to a leash poisoned by untruth
Entangled in the web of a distant order
The iron hand has the lightest touch
Caresses the shells of the hollow and cold
See wind carry dust of withering lives
I see towers collapse to the ground
I lose you just the way that you lost me
I tie myself up as much as you refuse to set me free
It seems inevitable, it always was and always will be
We were always destined to belong to everyone else
(x2)
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
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"Lonely in a void where people are dying to live" People are dying to live in love, to have a real and good relationship. And now, his own is being destroyed, so he feels lonely and empty.
"Weary of the stories that unfold before my eyes" He can't accept to face the truth, he refuses to see the signs of the ending
"A clenched fist can feel so strong A lion's heart unable to break Though a fire burns inside, these fates are not for this lion to decide upon" He felt so strong when he was loved, and he has no power to change the fate
"Tied to a leash poisoned by untruth Entangled in the web of a distant order" Here again, the other person in the relationship is "poisonnous", distant.
"The iron hand has the lightest touch Caresses the shells of the hollow and cold" The iron hand is the one of the singer, the one feeling strong, but he can only carress something cold and hollow, as the other one is already gone.
"See wind carry dust of withering lives I see towers collapse to the ground" And now he sees all his dreams falling apart
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