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"
East of the ancient sun
Beyond the valley of the corpses
I'll be waiting for you
Where all loss of hope is
No remorse
I spit on your corpse
Nothing left to do
But put my boot on you
I've got no remorse
Across the void
I shout your name
Not taken in vain
You took in vain
Through the millions of miles
The dead empty space
Through the vastness of the naked
desert to bury your name
Sometimes it feels so lonely
Like the wind it blows right through me
The truth is I never liked you this
testimony is one of truth you're just
a means to an end
With no redeeming thing about you
Walk in my shoes
This dead empty space
Walk in my shoes
This burdens on you
The day has eyes
The nights has ears
It seen my fears
You're gonna be the death of me
It's all downhill
Downhill from here I felt so shot
so shot I lost my mind
Born of trouble into the breach
Empty promises
There just out of reach
East of the ancient sun
Beyond the valley of the corpses
I'll be waiting for you
Where there is no hope
The truth is I never liked you
this testimony is one of truth
you're just a means to an end
With no redeeming thing about you
I bury the burden I bury the burden this burdens on you,
This dead empty space!
The truth is I never liked you
this testimony is one of truth
you're just a means to an end
With no redeeming thing about you
I bury the burden I bury the burden this burdens on you!
This burdens on you!
You live in dead empty space
Beyond the valley of the corpses
I'll be waiting for you
Where all loss of hope is
No remorse
I spit on your corpse
Nothing left to do
But put my boot on you
I've got no remorse
Across the void
I shout your name
Not taken in vain
You took in vain
Through the millions of miles
The dead empty space
Through the vastness of the naked
desert to bury your name
Sometimes it feels so lonely
Like the wind it blows right through me
The truth is I never liked you this
testimony is one of truth you're just
a means to an end
With no redeeming thing about you
Walk in my shoes
This dead empty space
Walk in my shoes
This burdens on you
The day has eyes
The nights has ears
It seen my fears
You're gonna be the death of me
It's all downhill
Downhill from here I felt so shot
so shot I lost my mind
Born of trouble into the breach
Empty promises
There just out of reach
East of the ancient sun
Beyond the valley of the corpses
I'll be waiting for you
Where there is no hope
The truth is I never liked you
this testimony is one of truth
you're just a means to an end
With no redeeming thing about you
I bury the burden I bury the burden this burdens on you,
This dead empty space!
The truth is I never liked you
this testimony is one of truth
you're just a means to an end
With no redeeming thing about you
I bury the burden I bury the burden this burdens on you!
This burdens on you!
You live in dead empty space
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