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"
From dehumanization, to arms production,
for the benefit of the nation, or its destruction,
power is power, it's the law of the land,
those who live for death, would die by their own hands.
Life is no ordeal, if you can come to terms,
reject the system, which dictates the norm,
from dehumanization, to arms production,
for the benefit of the nation, or its destruction,
it's your choice: peace or annihilation?
Annihilation is to one, the means to an end,
Armageddon the war to end all wars, the extremists' end,
Annihilation annihilation annihilation,
self destruction destruction destruction,
The streets are on fire, death in our wake,
cars overturned, bodies are raped,
you go on preaching, religious dogma,
while paying for and sanctioning, vicious murders,
Annihilation annihilation annihilation,
praise destruction destruction destruction,
The streets are on fire, death in our wake,
cars overturned, seen it before,
annihilation is to one, the means to end,
Armageddon the war to end all wars, the extremists' end,
You go on and play with peoples lives,
using their minds,
you want total control, stay in line
Annihilation annihilation annihilation, the judgement day
Armageddon Armageddon Armageddon, are you going to let them blow you away?
for the benefit of the nation, or its destruction,
power is power, it's the law of the land,
those who live for death, would die by their own hands.
Life is no ordeal, if you can come to terms,
reject the system, which dictates the norm,
from dehumanization, to arms production,
for the benefit of the nation, or its destruction,
it's your choice: peace or annihilation?
Annihilation is to one, the means to an end,
Armageddon the war to end all wars, the extremists' end,
Annihilation annihilation annihilation,
self destruction destruction destruction,
The streets are on fire, death in our wake,
cars overturned, bodies are raped,
you go on preaching, religious dogma,
while paying for and sanctioning, vicious murders,
Annihilation annihilation annihilation,
praise destruction destruction destruction,
The streets are on fire, death in our wake,
cars overturned, seen it before,
annihilation is to one, the means to end,
Armageddon the war to end all wars, the extremists' end,
You go on and play with peoples lives,
using their minds,
you want total control, stay in line
Annihilation annihilation annihilation, the judgement day
Armageddon Armageddon Armageddon, are you going to let them blow you away?
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