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"
Bleeding, I'm
Crying, I'm
Falling, I'm
Bleeding now, now
Bleeding, I'm
Crying, I'm
Falling, I'm
Bleeding now
Bleeding now, I'm
Crying out, I'm
Falling down and I'm
Feeling nothing, like
Laughing now, I'm
Stopping now, I'm
Ooh, reaching out and I'm
Feeling nothing
Yeah
You created a rift within me
Now, there have been several complications and I'm
Left me feeling nothing
I might say
You were wrong to take it from me
Left me feeling nothing
Crawling now, I'm
Beaten down, I'm
Tortured now and I'm
Feeling nothing, like
Hunting now, I'm
Stalking now, I'm
Reaching out and I'm
Killing nothing
Yeah
You created a rift within me
Now, there have been several complications and I'm
Left me feeling nothing
I might say
You were wrong to take it from me
Left me feeling nothing
Ooh, I can feel you ripping and tearing and feeding and growing inside of me
Ripping and tearing and feeding and growing inside of me
I want this
More than you know
I need this
Give it back to me
You created a rift within me
You are the cause of these horrid complications that are
Ripping and tearing and feeding and growing inside of me, yeah
You've created a rift within me
Now, there have been several complications that are
Ripping, tearing
Feeding, growing
Ripping, tearing
Ripping and tearing and feeding and growing inside of me
I want this
More than you know
I need this
Give it back to me
Crying, I'm
Falling, I'm
Bleeding now, now
Bleeding, I'm
Crying, I'm
Falling, I'm
Bleeding now
Bleeding now, I'm
Crying out, I'm
Falling down and I'm
Feeling nothing, like
Laughing now, I'm
Stopping now, I'm
Ooh, reaching out and I'm
Feeling nothing
Yeah
You created a rift within me
Now, there have been several complications and I'm
Left me feeling nothing
I might say
You were wrong to take it from me
Left me feeling nothing
Crawling now, I'm
Beaten down, I'm
Tortured now and I'm
Feeling nothing, like
Hunting now, I'm
Stalking now, I'm
Reaching out and I'm
Killing nothing
Yeah
You created a rift within me
Now, there have been several complications and I'm
Left me feeling nothing
I might say
You were wrong to take it from me
Left me feeling nothing
Ooh, I can feel you ripping and tearing and feeding and growing inside of me
Ripping and tearing and feeding and growing inside of me
I want this
More than you know
I need this
Give it back to me
You created a rift within me
You are the cause of these horrid complications that are
Ripping and tearing and feeding and growing inside of me, yeah
You've created a rift within me
Now, there have been several complications that are
Ripping, tearing
Feeding, growing
Ripping, tearing
Ripping and tearing and feeding and growing inside of me
I want this
More than you know
I need this
Give it back to me
Lyrics submitted by spitfirek7
Numb Lyrics as written by Dan Donegan Mike Wengren
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the 1st verse relates to me: when i 1st cut myself (bleeding now) i cried my fucking eyes out (crying out). i felt like such a failure (falling now). when i was next happy i saw the cuts on my wrist and i jus felt like i dont deserve to be happy (laughing now, stopping now). i then just started feeling nothing. i cudnt be happy, yet i cudnt cry. my mind was so full of shit and i cudnt do a thing with it. the chorus means to me: "the straw that broke the camels back" that started me cutting was that i cudnt sleep cos my mum had her bf over and they were makin a lot of noise if u know wot i mean. it kept me awak listnin to the voice that was telling me to cut, making me numb. the 2nd verse: i believe its like the making of a serial killer or sumthing (stalking, hunting) as a way of coping with the rift, or trying to take an extreme that wud cure the numbness. but as he tries to do it sumthing holds him back, but still leaving him not feeling anything exept hate 2wards the thing inside holding him back. i can feel u ripping...: blaming the person who "caused a rift"
(bye the way i dont get those thoughts of stalkin etc. i dunno how i thought of that)