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"
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it
Let's go
I've had enough
There's a voice in my head
Says I'm better off dead
But if I sing along
A little fucking louder to a happy song
I'll be alright
You want to give up
Gave it all that you've got and it still doesn't cut
But if you sing along
A little fucking louder to a happy song
You'll be just fine 'cause
Every now and again we get that feeling
And the great big void inside us opens up
And I really wish that you could help
But my head is like a carousel
And I'm going round in circles
I'm going round in circles
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it
We are possessed
We're all fucked in the head
Alone and depressed
But if we sing along
A little fucking louder to a happy song
Maybe we'll forget 'cause
Every now and again we get that feeling
And the great big void inside us opens up
And I really wish that you could help
But my head is like a carousel
And I'm going round in circles
I'm going round in circles
Don't wake us up, we'd rather just keep dreaming
'Cause the nightmares in our heads are bad enough
And I really wish that you could help
But my head is like a carousel
And I'm going round in circles
I'm going round in circles
The world has coalesced
Into one giant mess
Of hate and unrest
So let's all sing along
A little goddamn louder to a happy song
And pretend it's all ok
Let's go
So let's sing along
Yeah, let's sing along
A little fucking louder
A little fucking louder
Well, don't you feel so much better?
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it (well, that's the spirit)
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it (yeah, that's the spirit)
Spirit, let's hear it
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it
Let's go
I've had enough
There's a voice in my head
Says I'm better off dead
But if I sing along
A little fucking louder to a happy song
I'll be alright
You want to give up
Gave it all that you've got and it still doesn't cut
But if you sing along
A little fucking louder to a happy song
You'll be just fine 'cause
Every now and again we get that feeling
And the great big void inside us opens up
And I really wish that you could help
But my head is like a carousel
And I'm going round in circles
I'm going round in circles
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it
We are possessed
We're all fucked in the head
Alone and depressed
But if we sing along
A little fucking louder to a happy song
Maybe we'll forget 'cause
Every now and again we get that feeling
And the great big void inside us opens up
And I really wish that you could help
But my head is like a carousel
And I'm going round in circles
I'm going round in circles
Don't wake us up, we'd rather just keep dreaming
'Cause the nightmares in our heads are bad enough
And I really wish that you could help
But my head is like a carousel
And I'm going round in circles
I'm going round in circles
The world has coalesced
Into one giant mess
Of hate and unrest
So let's all sing along
A little goddamn louder to a happy song
And pretend it's all ok
Let's go
So let's sing along
Yeah, let's sing along
A little fucking louder
A little fucking louder
Well, don't you feel so much better?
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it (well, that's the spirit)
S-P-I-R-I-T
Spirit, let's hear it (yeah, that's the spirit)
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I think this song is telling us that everybody has felt depressed and sad in some moment of their lives. We all go through them no matter how serious they are. But we (or at least I'm guilty of it) brush them off because we convince ourselves that there are people with worse problems than ours. We keep it inside, push all those "negative" emotions down, hold in the anger, dream to forget the nightmare... These little moments of sadness keep piling up until they burst on the most unexpected of moments or they make us bitter, make wrong decisions, etc. Aaaaand that's why "The world has coalesced into one giant mess of hate and unrest." because we decide to "...sing along a little fucking louder to a happy song." Of course, this is just my interpretation and it's probably lacking a lot of details... But yeah...
Also, this song could be about the world being effed up (politically, socially, economically, pollution, etc.), but all of us pretend to be unaware or ignore it. We're all to focused on celebrities, songs/happy songs, media, electronics... Unimportant things that in the long run, they rotten our minds