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"
Lay only leopard flowers upon my path
Lined by the drummers and scent of Aragon
Faith is difficult and nuture is all?
Signed on the path from Aragon
Like an ideal falling, tumbling to earth
Its wings broken so like wisdom
Grey steel holes
Open behind me
Dark pink scars
Run along beside me
Endless pointless
Gaping chasm
Ill-chosen, disappointing
With litte meaning
Snow-white ferocity
Your image did deceive me
Like an ideal falling, tumbling to earth
Its wings broken so like wisdom
Grey steel holes
Open behind me
Dark pink scars
Run along beside me
Lay only leopard flowers upon my path
Lined by the drummers and spears of Aragon
Faith is difficult and nurture is all?
Signed on my path from arrogance
Lay only leopard flowers upon my path
Lined by the drummers and scent of Aragon
Faith is difficult and murder them all
Signed on the path from Aragon
Lined by the drummers and scent of Aragon
Faith is difficult and nuture is all?
Signed on the path from Aragon
Like an ideal falling, tumbling to earth
Its wings broken so like wisdom
Grey steel holes
Open behind me
Dark pink scars
Run along beside me
Endless pointless
Gaping chasm
Ill-chosen, disappointing
With litte meaning
Snow-white ferocity
Your image did deceive me
Like an ideal falling, tumbling to earth
Its wings broken so like wisdom
Grey steel holes
Open behind me
Dark pink scars
Run along beside me
Lay only leopard flowers upon my path
Lined by the drummers and spears of Aragon
Faith is difficult and nurture is all?
Signed on my path from arrogance
Lay only leopard flowers upon my path
Lined by the drummers and scent of Aragon
Faith is difficult and murder them all
Signed on the path from Aragon
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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The Leopard's Bane flower symbolizes strength: perennial-gardens.com/flower-meanings.php
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