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"
Evil, why do you kill the braincell? (6x)
As we see all these people are pushing to need for a fight, issue at hand?
Well it's sure to be something else,
Spun by the blade of right, issue at hand? Well it's sure to me nothing
We are here,
This is clear,
There is nothing but people,
Nothing more,
Not a score,
There is nothing but people, pushing speculation cos it's better when it's tense,
You take a battered town and then you're adding to the dents.
All you need to make it better is a little bit of sense,
You're spitting a vendetta and you're putting up a fence,
Cos we know there are reasons to boil the blood,
Not for brains to sink through the mud,
Anger demands a direction to run, latch on the yarn that is spun.
THERE IS - a life beyond your agenda
NO PLACE -Could take a moral surrender
FOR YOU - I have a deep concern cos you are on my doorstep
Enter vermin an unwelcome pest,
Then has the front to suggest that this mess is a racial thing,
Can I bring the consequence of individual lack of sense,
Criminals in every race, colour or creed and there's decency too,
My beliefs right now are simple, I'm me and you are you.
We are here,
This is clear,
There is nothing but people
Nothing more
Not a score
There is nothing but people
I'm not up on the high ground I'm another set of eyes,
I'm not a revolutionary plotting demise
I do not lead an army that is waiting to arise,
I'm just another witness to the ignorance and lies
cos we know there are reasons for fists in the air,
Not for fools with scapegoats to scare,
?
THERE IS - a life beyond your agenda
NO PLACE -Could take a moral surrender
FOR YOU - I have a deep concern cos you are on my doorstep (2x)
As we see all these people are pushing to need for a fight, issue at hand?
Well it's sure to be something else,
Spun by the blade of right, issue at hand? Well it's sure to me nothing
We are here,
This is clear,
There is nothing but people,
Nothing more,
Not a score,
There is nothing but people, pushing speculation cos it's better when it's tense,
You take a battered town and then you're adding to the dents.
All you need to make it better is a little bit of sense,
You're spitting a vendetta and you're putting up a fence,
Cos we know there are reasons to boil the blood,
Not for brains to sink through the mud,
Anger demands a direction to run, latch on the yarn that is spun.
THERE IS - a life beyond your agenda
NO PLACE -Could take a moral surrender
FOR YOU - I have a deep concern cos you are on my doorstep
Enter vermin an unwelcome pest,
Then has the front to suggest that this mess is a racial thing,
Can I bring the consequence of individual lack of sense,
Criminals in every race, colour or creed and there's decency too,
My beliefs right now are simple, I'm me and you are you.
We are here,
This is clear,
There is nothing but people
Nothing more
Not a score
There is nothing but people
I'm not up on the high ground I'm another set of eyes,
I'm not a revolutionary plotting demise
I do not lead an army that is waiting to arise,
I'm just another witness to the ignorance and lies
cos we know there are reasons for fists in the air,
Not for fools with scapegoats to scare,
?
THERE IS - a life beyond your agenda
NO PLACE -Could take a moral surrender
FOR YOU - I have a deep concern cos you are on my doorstep (2x)
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