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 could stand behind my barricade
Do what I'm told and be afraid to change
While isolated by the mainstream
With the current up against me
Well maybe if my arms were ten feet tall
I could finally reach that crystal ball
'Cause I still find inside
There's something braver
And I, I won't be, I won't be
The silent damnation
I will never be voiceless
My weapon of choice is
I'd rather be dangerous
I won't be left defenseless
As God as my witness
I'd rather be dangerous (dangerous)
I'm not making conversation
But I'll state my observations
Well I could buy my faith like a plot in the ground
But I was never lost and I never had a doubt
'Cause I still find
It's not my imagination
And I, I won't be, I won't be
The silent damnation
I will never be voiceless
My weapon of choice is
I'd rather be dangerous
I won't be left defenseless
As God as my witness
I'd rather be dangerous (dangerous)
Everybody
Is somebody
And anybody is you
I own my story
I won't say sorry
And neither should you
I will never be
I will never be voiceless
My weapon of choice is
I'd rather be dangerous
I won't be left defenseless
As God as my witness
I'd rather be dangerous
Everybody
Is somebody
And anybody is you
I will never be voiceless (will never be voiceless)
As God as my witness (as God as my witness)
I won't be left defenseless
As God as my witness
I'd rather be dangerous, dangerous
Do what I'm told and be afraid to change
While isolated by the mainstream
With the current up against me
Well maybe if my arms were ten feet tall
I could finally reach that crystal ball
'Cause I still find inside
There's something braver
And I, I won't be, I won't be
The silent damnation
I will never be voiceless
My weapon of choice is
I'd rather be dangerous
I won't be left defenseless
As God as my witness
I'd rather be dangerous (dangerous)
I'm not making conversation
But I'll state my observations
Well I could buy my faith like a plot in the ground
But I was never lost and I never had a doubt
'Cause I still find
It's not my imagination
And I, I won't be, I won't be
The silent damnation
I will never be voiceless
My weapon of choice is
I'd rather be dangerous
I won't be left defenseless
As God as my witness
I'd rather be dangerous (dangerous)
Everybody
Is somebody
And anybody is you
I own my story
I won't say sorry
And neither should you
I will never be
I will never be voiceless
My weapon of choice is
I'd rather be dangerous
I won't be left defenseless
As God as my witness
I'd rather be dangerous
Everybody
Is somebody
And anybody is you
I will never be voiceless (will never be voiceless)
As God as my witness (as God as my witness)
I won't be left defenseless
As God as my witness
I'd rather be dangerous, dangerous
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I think that Brent is saying that he doesn't know what will happen next
Well, maybe if my arms were ten feet tall, I could finally reach that crystal ball
and that he's saying he doesn't want to sit around and cower; that he'd rather take risks
I could stand behind my barricade Do what I'm told and be afraid to change
My weapon of choice is I'd rather be dangerous
And that nobody (including us, the listeners) should be afraid to be ourselves, or take risks
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