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"
Can you tell from the look in our eyes?
We're going nowhere
We live our lives like we're ready to die
We're going nowhere
Can you tell from the look in our eyes?
We're going nowhere
We live our lives like we're ready to die
We're going nowhere
I thought I'd buried you
And covered the tracks
You'll have to take this with your cold dead hands
I thought I'd buried you
What's dead can never die
I thought I'd cut you loose
Severed the feeling
I slipped through the cracks and you caved in my ceiling
I thought I'd buried you
What's dead can never die
Fuck
Can you tell from the look in our eyes
We're going nowhere
We live our lives like we're ready to die
We're going nowhere
You can run but you'll never escape
Over and over again
Will we ever see the end?
We're going nowhere
This is sempiternal
Will we ever see the end?
This is sempiternal
Over and over, again and again
Rise from the dead, you say
Secrets don't sleep 'til they're took to the grave
Signal the sirens, rally the troops
Ladies and gentlemen
It's the moment of truth
Can you tell from the look in our eyes?
We're going nowhere
We live our lives like we're ready to die
We're going nowhere
You can run but you'll never escape
Over and over again
Will we ever see the end?
We're going nowhere
Can you tell from the look in our eyes?
We're going nowhere
We live our lives like we're ready to die
We're going nowhere
You can run but you'll never escape
Over and over again
Will we ever see the end?
We're going nowhere
This is sempiternal
Will we ever see the end?
This is sempiternal
Over and over, again and again
We're going nowhere
We live our lives like we're ready to die
We're going nowhere
Can you tell from the look in our eyes?
We're going nowhere
We live our lives like we're ready to die
We're going nowhere
I thought I'd buried you
And covered the tracks
You'll have to take this with your cold dead hands
I thought I'd buried you
What's dead can never die
I thought I'd cut you loose
Severed the feeling
I slipped through the cracks and you caved in my ceiling
I thought I'd buried you
What's dead can never die
Fuck
Can you tell from the look in our eyes
We're going nowhere
We live our lives like we're ready to die
We're going nowhere
You can run but you'll never escape
Over and over again
Will we ever see the end?
We're going nowhere
This is sempiternal
Will we ever see the end?
This is sempiternal
Over and over, again and again
Rise from the dead, you say
Secrets don't sleep 'til they're took to the grave
Signal the sirens, rally the troops
Ladies and gentlemen
It's the moment of truth
Can you tell from the look in our eyes?
We're going nowhere
We live our lives like we're ready to die
We're going nowhere
You can run but you'll never escape
Over and over again
Will we ever see the end?
We're going nowhere
Can you tell from the look in our eyes?
We're going nowhere
We live our lives like we're ready to die
We're going nowhere
You can run but you'll never escape
Over and over again
Will we ever see the end?
We're going nowhere
This is sempiternal
Will we ever see the end?
This is sempiternal
Over and over, again and again
Lyrics submitted by Jugglebug1, edited by silvershadow6, DASHONFIRE, gnarkilll, miserypistol, specialeddie, ChrisSage, JaydedJaded, ChAoSGaming, slutwhorefour, SnowyHell
Shadow Moses Lyrics as written by Lee Malia Jordan Fish
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@staymetalforthekids agreed. This is what I understand from the lyrics as well. Despair at being trapped in an infinite void of nothingness. Being haunted by it, trying to run away - but that dread stays with you always. Understanding that time itself is an illusion. We are no more than an infinitesimal blip. We are nothing now and we will always be nothing. The universe has no reason to exist. Nothing ever did. The reason for this reality is arbitrary, just like our existence is arbitrary. It's one of the infinite number of random possibilities that comes from nothingness. There is no greater meaning, there is nobody watching over you, and there is no escape. You can't do anything to change it. And it will keep repeating, over and over again, because in nothing there is everything that could ever possibly exist. You will never find something tangible to anchor yourself to. Forever and ever, you will exist as nothing.