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"
You’re a monster in my mind
You’re the one I can’t leave behind
You crawled inside, I watched you die
Did you think that you could bury me
Your love is a lie
I will fight to forget
Your love is a knife
I will die to forget
Did you get what you want from me
You weren’t the one that I thought you’d be
Everything it cost, everything I lost
Did you think that you could erase me
Your love is a lie
I will fight to forget
Your love is a knife
I will die to forget
I will fight to forget you
I will die to forget you
Let me go, let me go
You’re abandoned
You’re broken down
Your sickness, blame it on me
Your hopelessness
Your insanity
You’re screaming, blame it on me
Your love is a lie
I will fight to forget
Your love is a knife
I would die to forget
I will fight to forget you
I will die to forget you
You’re the one I can’t leave behind
You crawled inside, I watched you die
Did you think that you could bury me
Your love is a lie
I will fight to forget
Your love is a knife
I will die to forget
Did you get what you want from me
You weren’t the one that I thought you’d be
Everything it cost, everything I lost
Did you think that you could erase me
Your love is a lie
I will fight to forget
Your love is a knife
I will die to forget
I will fight to forget you
I will die to forget you
Let me go, let me go
You’re abandoned
You’re broken down
Your sickness, blame it on me
Your hopelessness
Your insanity
You’re screaming, blame it on me
Your love is a lie
I will fight to forget
Your love is a knife
I would die to forget
I will fight to forget you
I will die to forget you
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In my opinion this song is about addiction and the struggle that follows during recovery.
The addiction is the "monster in my mind"
"Your love is a lie" refers to the feeling of love felt when your high and how it's a lie that lead(s) to addiction.
"I will fight to forget" he is basically saying ignorance is bliss, that he will fight the cravings to forget the false love the high provides
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