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"
Set me aflame and cast me free
Away you wretched world of tethers
Through the endless night and day
I have never wanted more.
Always thought that I would stand
Before the faceless name of Justice
Like some law unto myself
Like a child of God again.
And if rain brings winds of change
Let it rain on us forever
I have no doubts from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
With this line I'll mark the past
As a symbol of beginning
I have no doubt from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
In this picture stands a man
Far away, alone and distant
Like a solitary field
In some nameless foreign land.
All around him points of light
Start to dim and cease transmitting
Shadows fell on futile games
And then there was nothing more.
Through the screams of falling steel
By the light of flares and wisdom
All the doubts I could not face
All this time I wanted more.
With a line I mark the past
As a symbol of beginning
To the gods whose names we've lost
And the names who gave in vain.
And if rain brings winds of change
Let it rain on us forever
I have no doubts from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
With this line I'll mark the past
As a symbol of beginning
I have no doubt from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
Set me aflame and cast me free
Away you wretched world of tethers
Through the endless night and day
I have never wanted more.
Always thought that I would stand
Before the faceless name of Justice
Like some law unto myself
Like a child of God again.
And if rain brings winds of change
Let it rain on us forever
I have no doubts from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
With this line I'll mark the past
As a symbol of beginning
I have no doubt from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
Sever the line to the guilty past
To the ones who brought us nothing
Spoke of futures brave and proud
And brought only hate and war.
Lined the roads with hollow praise
Marked the land with paper statues
Shadows fell on their futile ways
And then there was nothing more
Away you wretched world of tethers
Through the endless night and day
I have never wanted more.
Always thought that I would stand
Before the faceless name of Justice
Like some law unto myself
Like a child of God again.
And if rain brings winds of change
Let it rain on us forever
I have no doubts from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
With this line I'll mark the past
As a symbol of beginning
I have no doubt from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
In this picture stands a man
Far away, alone and distant
Like a solitary field
In some nameless foreign land.
All around him points of light
Start to dim and cease transmitting
Shadows fell on futile games
And then there was nothing more.
Through the screams of falling steel
By the light of flares and wisdom
All the doubts I could not face
All this time I wanted more.
With a line I mark the past
As a symbol of beginning
To the gods whose names we've lost
And the names who gave in vain.
And if rain brings winds of change
Let it rain on us forever
I have no doubts from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
With this line I'll mark the past
As a symbol of beginning
I have no doubt from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
Set me aflame and cast me free
Away you wretched world of tethers
Through the endless night and day
I have never wanted more.
Always thought that I would stand
Before the faceless name of Justice
Like some law unto myself
Like a child of God again.
And if rain brings winds of change
Let it rain on us forever
I have no doubts from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
With this line I'll mark the past
As a symbol of beginning
I have no doubt from what I've seen
I have never wanted more.
Sever the line to the guilty past
To the ones who brought us nothing
Spoke of futures brave and proud
And brought only hate and war.
Lined the roads with hollow praise
Marked the land with paper statues
Shadows fell on their futile ways
And then there was nothing more
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Please read what I have to say, it's important to me, because I so rarely have anything to say about anything. I have heard so many songs in my life, downloaded the whole internet it seems, but I have NEVER EVER felt what I feel for this song.
So many "stupid" teenagers, and adults alike, talk about the oh-how-meaningful a certain (crappy) song is to them. I often wonder if they really do feel anythign at all, or just say they do for the sake of telling the world "I'm a rocker" or "I'm miserable".
Anyone pouring their hearts out over THIS song however, should be given an award. If you ever listened to this song, you've been connected to the whole world around you, and every VNV solitary listener alongside with you, in some sort of unison silent choir of thoughts and dreams fears and hopes, all drowning into eachother.
I have been completely wrong about the meaning of this song forever, and known about it all along, but somehow it doesn't matter.
I have walked late at night at hours when aboslutely nobody but me is out on the streets in my small town in Sweden (Köping), on paths in the forest nearby, and completely drowned my mind into the dreamy non-existance of this most beautiful and most fantastic vnv nation song of all time.
What is so fantastic about VNV nation in general is that you can retrive to some wonderful bittersweet hypnotic state that seemed to occupy me a whole lot more in my childhood. It's a wonderful feeling of serenity listening to this song.
And you don't just listen to this song... It's the whole universe and the world around you talking to you about how everything is okay even though you are really all alone in this. It's a strange sort of alineated comfort wrapping its arms around you. A wind with hope. It's really everything you could possibly feel about anything at the same time, and I would be damned if not the universe sings along with "I HAVE NEVER WANTED MORE"
To me, the words "I have never wanted more" means the opposite (probably) of what was intended. I want so much more out of my life than I have, and to walk alone listening to this song late at night in the woods is like walking alongside with the singer. I imagine him screaming out his majestic desires to the world in which nobody listens because he is, like me, all alone.
I hope anyone reads this, and feels EXACTLY the same :)
VNV nation is something unworldly, a natural chord strumming along throughout all space and time, and it's such a shame so few people in this world ever even heard of VNV. But at the same time, of course, that's also what makes this song so personal, and beutiful, and for the sam reason, nobody loving it can be stamped with a label on their forhead for screaming out his or hers passion about it.