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"
All the dirt and the worry left when
I realized that I knew it all
How it started and how it's gonna end
(It's a judgement call)
And I don't need no proof
(It's a judgement call)
The writing's on my wall
It's a judgement
And you can come if you get behind it
And if you wear this long white shawl
Cause we're the clean, and the right and the chosen ones
(It's a judgement call)
And I don't need no proof
(It's a judgement call)
The writing's on my wall
It's a judgement
And we gotta keep the wheels in motion
And we gotta get the kids before they grow
God forbid they retain their sense of wonder
(It's a judgement call)
Their sense of wonder
(It's a judgement call)
Their sense of wonder
It's a judgement
Now I don't need to think for myself
No, I don't need to think at all
When the team says go, I go
It's a judgement call, it's a judgement call
No, we don't need to think for ourselves
No, we don't need to think at all
When the screen says go, we go
It's a judgement call, it's a judgement call
And I believe this land is my land
You are not the same at all
Cause the man in the sky has got my back
And I don't need no proof
The writing's on my wall
I don't need no proof
The writing's on my wall
(It's a judgement call)
No, I don't need no proof
(It's a judgement call)
So you better start running
It's a judgement
It's a judgement
It's a judgement
I made your world a living hell
(It's a judgement)
I've lost the will to judge myself.
I realized that I knew it all
How it started and how it's gonna end
(It's a judgement call)
And I don't need no proof
(It's a judgement call)
The writing's on my wall
It's a judgement
And you can come if you get behind it
And if you wear this long white shawl
Cause we're the clean, and the right and the chosen ones
(It's a judgement call)
And I don't need no proof
(It's a judgement call)
The writing's on my wall
It's a judgement
And we gotta keep the wheels in motion
And we gotta get the kids before they grow
God forbid they retain their sense of wonder
(It's a judgement call)
Their sense of wonder
(It's a judgement call)
Their sense of wonder
It's a judgement
Now I don't need to think for myself
No, I don't need to think at all
When the team says go, I go
It's a judgement call, it's a judgement call
No, we don't need to think for ourselves
No, we don't need to think at all
When the screen says go, we go
It's a judgement call, it's a judgement call
And I believe this land is my land
You are not the same at all
Cause the man in the sky has got my back
And I don't need no proof
The writing's on my wall
I don't need no proof
The writing's on my wall
(It's a judgement call)
No, I don't need no proof
(It's a judgement call)
So you better start running
It's a judgement
It's a judgement
It's a judgement
I made your world a living hell
(It's a judgement)
I've lost the will to judge myself.
Lyrics submitted by loosegrin
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I think this song is a mocking criticism of religion. Worry leaving when he realized he "knew it all" means he's found the answer to the big questions, the same way religion gives people the answer to life's big questions, and how it "begun" and how it "ended".
In many ways religion encourages people to judge others whose answers to life's questions are different from yours. It's a "judgement".
Not having to think for himself because the religion tells him which way is the right way - when the screen/team (religion) tells him what to do, he does it without question.
@loosegrin I don't think of it so much as a criticism of religion as a whole, but rather extreme views. He makes no attack at believing in general, only at believing that one is somehow divinely superior to others.<br /> It sounds very Israeli-Palestinian conflict to me.