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"
All of our society is smashed and falling
As we walk on broken glass we start crawling
This is the dawning of the last chance of our lives
Walk the lonely road to see who survives
Don't miss the forest for the trees
For you'll never arrive
Tonight I'm on my knees
And I'm on fire
I'll hold the wheel and drive
Our relationships have become ancient ruins
And with our flaws we only point out wrong doings
Wait in line for rage to point it's finger
And watch the vapor trail of your demise start to linger
Don't miss the forest for the trees
For you'll never arrive
Tonight I'm on my knees
And I'm on fire
I'll hold the wheel and drive
Now that fortune has turned a man into evil
He's only one high away from feeling the needle
But at the root of his destruction he'll suffer from greed
Let him mask those doubts until he gets all he needs
Don't miss the forest for the trees
For you'll never arrive
Tonight I'm on my knees
And I'm on fire
I'll hold the wheel and drive
For a beautiful gift you can trade it in for silver
But second best won't make you run like a river
You better push desire off towards the horizon
The ambition of your success will be mesmerizing
Don't miss the forest for the trees
For you'll never arrive
Tonight I'm on my knees
And I'm on fire
I'll hold the wheel and drive
As we walk on broken glass we start crawling
This is the dawning of the last chance of our lives
Walk the lonely road to see who survives
Don't miss the forest for the trees
For you'll never arrive
Tonight I'm on my knees
And I'm on fire
I'll hold the wheel and drive
Our relationships have become ancient ruins
And with our flaws we only point out wrong doings
Wait in line for rage to point it's finger
And watch the vapor trail of your demise start to linger
Don't miss the forest for the trees
For you'll never arrive
Tonight I'm on my knees
And I'm on fire
I'll hold the wheel and drive
Now that fortune has turned a man into evil
He's only one high away from feeling the needle
But at the root of his destruction he'll suffer from greed
Let him mask those doubts until he gets all he needs
Don't miss the forest for the trees
For you'll never arrive
Tonight I'm on my knees
And I'm on fire
I'll hold the wheel and drive
For a beautiful gift you can trade it in for silver
But second best won't make you run like a river
You better push desire off towards the horizon
The ambition of your success will be mesmerizing
Don't miss the forest for the trees
For you'll never arrive
Tonight I'm on my knees
And I'm on fire
I'll hold the wheel and drive
Lyrics submitted by mysterioso
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