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"
I came here for sanctuary
Away from the winds and the sounds of the city
I came here to get some peace
Way down deep where the shadows are heavy
I can't help but think of you
In these four walls my thoughts seem to wonder
To some distant century
When everyone we know is six feet under
When all of our friends are dead and just a memory
And we're side by side, It's always been just you and me
For all to see...
When our lives are over and all that remains
Are our skulls and bones, let's take it to the grave
And hold me in your arms
Hold me in your arms
I'll be buried here with you
And I'll hold in these hands all that remains
I don't want to rest in peace
We can haunt each other's dreams
We'll fight underneath this curse
Bicker away in darkness
We'll find our way to resolve
Our ways from the land of the living
We'll find a common ground
And fall in love all over again
When all of our friends are dead and just a memory
And we're side by side, It's always been just you and me
For all to see...
When our lives are over and all that remains
Are our skulls and bones, let's take it to the grave
And hold me in your arms
Hold me in your arms
I'll be buried here with you
And I'll hold in these hands all that remains
From dust to dirt the other's screams
Grow silent in defeat
I know I chased a memory
But you used to taste so sweet
As you faded away I realised
It's all over
And nothing stays the same
Our skulls and bones and grave
When all of our friends are dead and just a memory
And we're side by side, It's always been just you and me
For all to see...
When our lives are over and all that remains
Are our skulls and bones, let's take it to the grave
And hold me in your arms
Hold me in your arms
I'll be buried here with you
And I'll hold in these hands all that remains
Away from the winds and the sounds of the city
I came here to get some peace
Way down deep where the shadows are heavy
I can't help but think of you
In these four walls my thoughts seem to wonder
To some distant century
When everyone we know is six feet under
When all of our friends are dead and just a memory
And we're side by side, It's always been just you and me
For all to see...
When our lives are over and all that remains
Are our skulls and bones, let's take it to the grave
And hold me in your arms
Hold me in your arms
I'll be buried here with you
And I'll hold in these hands all that remains
I don't want to rest in peace
We can haunt each other's dreams
We'll fight underneath this curse
Bicker away in darkness
We'll find our way to resolve
Our ways from the land of the living
We'll find a common ground
And fall in love all over again
When all of our friends are dead and just a memory
And we're side by side, It's always been just you and me
For all to see...
When our lives are over and all that remains
Are our skulls and bones, let's take it to the grave
And hold me in your arms
Hold me in your arms
I'll be buried here with you
And I'll hold in these hands all that remains
From dust to dirt the other's screams
Grow silent in defeat
I know I chased a memory
But you used to taste so sweet
As you faded away I realised
It's all over
And nothing stays the same
Our skulls and bones and grave
When all of our friends are dead and just a memory
And we're side by side, It's always been just you and me
For all to see...
When our lives are over and all that remains
Are our skulls and bones, let's take it to the grave
And hold me in your arms
Hold me in your arms
I'll be buried here with you
And I'll hold in these hands all that remains
Lyrics submitted by Bendubz
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