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'm on top of the world And you can't bring me down I'm on top of the world With masses by my side I have a dream Eternal reign I have godly power You think you have a choice I have godly power Democracy has died I have a dream Eternal reign I am darkness I'm black light Not an angel but the devil in disguise I am darkness I'm black light Not an angel but the master of your lives I'm back alive God is not on my side It's only make-belive God is not on my side The funds is what I need I have a dream Eternal reign On your knees I'm your god You don't know it yet On your knees I'm your god You just don't know it yet I have a dream Eternal reign I am darkness I'm black light Not an angel but the devil in disguise I am darkness I'm black light Not an angel but the master of your lives I'm back alive""
Lyrics submitted by anfalas, edited by NyarSothoth
Dark Horse Lyrics as written by Jonathan Mooney Jesse Tabish
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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Youtube channel Auroborus hit on this connection but there is an absolutely hideous effigy of a Horse in front of the Denver International Airport. Despite enforced popular consensus about conspiracy theories: The way that place is set up, it might as well be a Bond villain base. It gets more and more chilling the deeper you look into it. Not just the Horse but murals that were inside the place before being altered or painted over so as not to overly alarm the public.
Anyway, bringing down the Dark Horse, takes on an interesting meaning if we look at in this light. Not so much as the monument in front of DIA itself but if we consider that what it symbolizes is ultimately an attempt to subvert positive energies, associations and archetypes of the Human consciousness. This is being bought down as more and more people realize what is really of value in their lives and reject that level of false-hood and cruel trickery.
The narrator speaks of how the older generation made mistakes in abetting those in power who erected the dark horse. Pledging to learn from previous mistakes and to bring down that system. Not something out of the norm for Other Lives, Don't let the Get away with this has a very similar message. Other Lives is with what they are able to articulate and express, not just lyrically but musically. Some of the songs in their latest -Rituals, someone find or post the lyrics for that one please- I can barely make out the lyrics too but I can actually feel exactly what they are singing about despite not being able to understand them perfectly.
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