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"
Defende nos in proelio
Contra nequitiam
Et insidias diaboli
Esto praesidium
imperet illi Deus
Supplices deprecamir
Tuque, princeps militiae
Militiae coelestis
In the beginning of time
There was a great war
The prince of light against Belial
He kept the way of the tree of life
The gate of paradise
Provoking the rage of the most lovely angel
Of night
(I'll ascend to heaven:
I will raise my throne
Above the stars of God
I will ascend to the tops of the clouds,
I will make myself like the most high)
(You were cast out of heaven
Where you'll never come back to
You were cut down to the ground
Light bringer, you were brought low
*Lucifer qui mane oriebaris*)
You cannot win this battle now
Jealous angel, surrender
Stop shedding blood
Jealous angel, surrender
No mercy
You've lost this fight
And heaven has lost one of his sons
You have now what you wanted
You are now your own God in hell
A thief of souls
(You refused our love
It really hurts me
You were my brother
But I won't have mercy
Cause the fight has started)
He was not strong enough
His place in heaven was lost
His ambition hurled him down
Since then he has been flying
Above the abyss
With his host of angels
Among the dark clouds
Please, show me the way
Don't let me fade into the darkness of hell
Why did he choose the other side?
He decided to betray us
Defende nos in proelio
Contra nequitiam
Et insidias diaboli
Esto praesidium
Satanam aliosque
Spiritus malignos
Qui ad perditionem
Animarum pervagantur in mundo.
Contra nequitiam
Et insidias diaboli
Esto praesidium
imperet illi Deus
Supplices deprecamir
Tuque, princeps militiae
Militiae coelestis
In the beginning of time
There was a great war
The prince of light against Belial
He kept the way of the tree of life
The gate of paradise
Provoking the rage of the most lovely angel
Of night
(I'll ascend to heaven:
I will raise my throne
Above the stars of God
I will ascend to the tops of the clouds,
I will make myself like the most high)
(You were cast out of heaven
Where you'll never come back to
You were cut down to the ground
Light bringer, you were brought low
*Lucifer qui mane oriebaris*)
You cannot win this battle now
Jealous angel, surrender
Stop shedding blood
Jealous angel, surrender
No mercy
You've lost this fight
And heaven has lost one of his sons
You have now what you wanted
You are now your own God in hell
A thief of souls
(You refused our love
It really hurts me
You were my brother
But I won't have mercy
Cause the fight has started)
He was not strong enough
His place in heaven was lost
His ambition hurled him down
Since then he has been flying
Above the abyss
With his host of angels
Among the dark clouds
Please, show me the way
Don't let me fade into the darkness of hell
Why did he choose the other side?
He decided to betray us
Defende nos in proelio
Contra nequitiam
Et insidias diaboli
Esto praesidium
Satanam aliosque
Spiritus malignos
Qui ad perditionem
Animarum pervagantur in mundo.
Lyrics submitted by WithinWishEpica
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