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"
We rely on subtle points
And stabs at biting humor
To reveal our tired roles
Of slave and domination
Who did you enlighten today
Humiliate to sell your point of view
Create an image for mass consumption
Insecurity as intellect
See your soul
In your eyes
Hope your trophies
Will not mind
I'm sick of this grain of salt
That I must take you with
I want to lash out but I bite my lip
The talk gets older and the lines get stale
Your chance at godliness has already failed
You can't deny
Your thirst and drive
For your time
In the spotlight
Why
Are you so damned sure that you shut your friends out
I have learned to shut out every hateful word
You'll never
See the friends you've lost
From behind your transparent mask
I haven't grown to hate you
I've just grown to forget you
You label me class rank and station
Your intellectual masturbation
You're absolutely intoxicated
By your own mouth running in circles
Your tongue always tends to lose it
Every chance you get you abuse it
You now have spent a lifetime
Killing time
I'm sick and tired of your reaction
Why don't you shut the fuck up
When you discover
Just how easy
It is to impress
Without demanding
All the attention
For no reason
Maybe you'll believe me
Your own will to power has come back to haunt you
And stabs at biting humor
To reveal our tired roles
Of slave and domination
Who did you enlighten today
Humiliate to sell your point of view
Create an image for mass consumption
Insecurity as intellect
See your soul
In your eyes
Hope your trophies
Will not mind
I'm sick of this grain of salt
That I must take you with
I want to lash out but I bite my lip
The talk gets older and the lines get stale
Your chance at godliness has already failed
You can't deny
Your thirst and drive
For your time
In the spotlight
Why
Are you so damned sure that you shut your friends out
I have learned to shut out every hateful word
You'll never
See the friends you've lost
From behind your transparent mask
I haven't grown to hate you
I've just grown to forget you
You label me class rank and station
Your intellectual masturbation
You're absolutely intoxicated
By your own mouth running in circles
Your tongue always tends to lose it
Every chance you get you abuse it
You now have spent a lifetime
Killing time
I'm sick and tired of your reaction
Why don't you shut the fuck up
When you discover
Just how easy
It is to impress
Without demanding
All the attention
For no reason
Maybe you'll believe me
Your own will to power has come back to haunt you
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whats up. i decided to look up what abominations meant. then i thought of this song and looked up virtuous. abominations are things that are disgusting or bad in anyones eyes. abuse, bragging, stealing, whatever. those virtuous are people of moral excellance. so the title is saying the dirty things of those who are perfect (for lack of better words). the whole song is basically about anyone who hurts others to get ahead as in the line "humiliate to sell your point of view". and the line "see your soul in your eyes, hope your trophies will not mind" is just telling that person to look at who they are and what they did to others to get those awards, trophies, achievements, whatever. i hope this is getting the point across, im not good with words, so forgive me. but this is just my opinion. its always funny when you "sing" a song to someone thinking that the song is about them, but when you turn it around and apply it to yourself......more often than not, you can apply it to you even better than anyone else. i learned that with this song. nathan grey lyrical, in my eyes, is a lyrical genious.