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"
(Ooh!)
Let's work it out.
Cultural heartbeat.
Lets keep it, keep it ticking.
The future is uncertain.
So let us work it out.
Requisite gut-check.
Nothing is impossible.
The future is not clawless, so let us work it out.
And keep the life debt.
Lets keep it keep it going.
Well isolate the beauty gene.
I propose a toast to modern scientists.
I put my faith in the brighter brains
(Oooh, Ohh, Ohhh)
Modern science. I put my faith in your capable brains.
(Oooh, Ohh, Ohhh)
Modern scientists,
you are the glorious sons of Cain.
(Oooh!)
Lets work it out.
Cultural heartbeat.
Lets keep ticking.
The future is not pretty.
Most like to leave you choked.
Your little heartbeat.
I promise you wont miss it.
The future is not perfect.
Most like to leave you there.
With just your life debt.
Always, always waiting.
Well isolate the beauty gene.
I propose a toast to modern scientists.
I put my faith in the brighter brains,
(Oooh, Ohh, Ohhh)
Of modern science.
I put my faith in your capable hands.
(Oooh, Ohh, Ohhh)
Modern scientists.
You are the glorious sons of Cain.
I put my faith in your brighter brain.
I believe in the ghost stories that you told me.
Another day, another dose of the main frame.
Another seam in the tapestry.
I put my life in the arms of space,
I believe in the myths that nursed me.
I put my faith in the hard of heart,
Im sure that its necessary.
Surely, all of this is so profound
And its nice to talk about.
But I hope you can work it all out.
I hope you work it all out.
Ow!
I hope you work it out.
Well need that heartbeat.
Lets keep it ticking.
Ow!
I hope we work it out
and keep the heartbe-ea-t going.
Let's work it out.
Cultural heartbeat.
Lets keep it, keep it ticking.
The future is uncertain.
So let us work it out.
Requisite gut-check.
Nothing is impossible.
The future is not clawless, so let us work it out.
And keep the life debt.
Lets keep it keep it going.
Well isolate the beauty gene.
I propose a toast to modern scientists.
I put my faith in the brighter brains
(Oooh, Ohh, Ohhh)
Modern science. I put my faith in your capable brains.
(Oooh, Ohh, Ohhh)
Modern scientists,
you are the glorious sons of Cain.
(Oooh!)
Lets work it out.
Cultural heartbeat.
Lets keep ticking.
The future is not pretty.
Most like to leave you choked.
Your little heartbeat.
I promise you wont miss it.
The future is not perfect.
Most like to leave you there.
With just your life debt.
Always, always waiting.
Well isolate the beauty gene.
I propose a toast to modern scientists.
I put my faith in the brighter brains,
(Oooh, Ohh, Ohhh)
Of modern science.
I put my faith in your capable hands.
(Oooh, Ohh, Ohhh)
Modern scientists.
You are the glorious sons of Cain.
I put my faith in your brighter brain.
I believe in the ghost stories that you told me.
Another day, another dose of the main frame.
Another seam in the tapestry.
I put my life in the arms of space,
I believe in the myths that nursed me.
I put my faith in the hard of heart,
Im sure that its necessary.
Surely, all of this is so profound
And its nice to talk about.
But I hope you can work it all out.
I hope you work it all out.
Ow!
I hope you work it out.
Well need that heartbeat.
Lets keep it ticking.
Ow!
I hope we work it out
and keep the heartbe-ea-t going.
Lyrics submitted by darkforce100
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