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"
Riding to Hastings, Treading the stone
Wretched of forces for the last war
Harold arrived in time
To stop the enemy's ride
Near to defeat, he should collide
With all William's ardour before he dies
But his stubbornness gave him the strength
To fight for a future gain
Exploits and bloodshed stained those lands
The scream of heroes still resounds over the battleground
Waves of defenders armed with steel
Led by the Norman to Telham Hill
Were ready to pass through the Bridge of Spears
And to face the growing fears
Holy clouds darkened the sky
When the kings delivered these blessed words:
"Brothers in battle, this war could be the way of no return"
But this hardness soothed the hearts
Silence preceded the harrowing wait
Men were praying God
Holy defenders of faith
Held the ties of loyalty
Aware of a glorious death
They decided to face the threat ,
standing the pain with grandiose pride
Holders of power relive
Remembered through the women's cry
Away from home
They decided to face their fate towards
the torment of their sacrifice
Ante lucem acies trucies
Processerunt sine metu
Duo duces paraverunt rationes proximae pugnae
"Profundite vitam pro nostro domino"
And the darkness flooded their hearts
Silence preceded the harrowing wait
Men were praying God
Holy defenders of faith
Held the ties of loyalty
Aware of a glorious death
They decided to face the threat ,
standing the pain with grandiose pride
Holders of power relive
Remembered through the women's cry
Away from home
They decided to walk the way
Raising the flag of the reign
([choir:] RAISING THE FLAG)
Nourishing few consolations inside
But ready to face the torment of their sacrifice
Wretched of forces for the last war
Harold arrived in time
To stop the enemy's ride
Near to defeat, he should collide
With all William's ardour before he dies
But his stubbornness gave him the strength
To fight for a future gain
Exploits and bloodshed stained those lands
The scream of heroes still resounds over the battleground
Waves of defenders armed with steel
Led by the Norman to Telham Hill
Were ready to pass through the Bridge of Spears
And to face the growing fears
Holy clouds darkened the sky
When the kings delivered these blessed words:
"Brothers in battle, this war could be the way of no return"
But this hardness soothed the hearts
Silence preceded the harrowing wait
Men were praying God
Holy defenders of faith
Held the ties of loyalty
Aware of a glorious death
They decided to face the threat ,
standing the pain with grandiose pride
Holders of power relive
Remembered through the women's cry
Away from home
They decided to face their fate towards
the torment of their sacrifice
Ante lucem acies trucies
Processerunt sine metu
Duo duces paraverunt rationes proximae pugnae
"Profundite vitam pro nostro domino"
And the darkness flooded their hearts
Silence preceded the harrowing wait
Men were praying God
Holy defenders of faith
Held the ties of loyalty
Aware of a glorious death
They decided to face the threat ,
standing the pain with grandiose pride
Holders of power relive
Remembered through the women's cry
Away from home
They decided to walk the way
Raising the flag of the reign
([choir:] RAISING THE FLAG)
Nourishing few consolations inside
But ready to face the torment of their sacrifice
Lyrics submitted by n1amr
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