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"
The kid next door is defective, the trees are rotting and bending to the ground
Watch the un-tainted innocence, collapse into lewd misfortunes
And I swear, but the truth feels so empty
And I run, but there's darkness everywhere
Paralyzed you can't see
Paranoid you can't sleep
Through the lies that surround you
Paralyzed you can't breath
Paranoid you can't sleep
Through the lies that surround you
I'm at least half a mile away, but much further than I thought I would be
To finding my way out of this hole, but the darkness here is so soothing
And I swear but the truth gets me nowhere
And I run but there's darkness everywhere
Paranoid you can't sleep
Paralyzed you can't see
Through the lies that surround you
Paranoid you can't sleep
Paralyzed you can't see
Through the lies that surround you
Substance seals leaks in you, damaged ship so we sink right
Before my eyes but it's putting out the fire well
Carnage lights up the sky but it's just as well
No one's fine sinking into the darkness it's no surprise
Paranoid you can't sleep
Paralyzed you can't see
Through the lies that surround you
Paranoid you can't sleep
Paralyzed you can't see
Through the lies that surround you
What you can't see is your disease, is everything its everything and you
You can't taste this, cause you just waste it
Watch the un-tainted innocence, collapse into lewd misfortunes
And I swear, but the truth feels so empty
And I run, but there's darkness everywhere
Paralyzed you can't see
Paranoid you can't sleep
Through the lies that surround you
Paralyzed you can't breath
Paranoid you can't sleep
Through the lies that surround you
I'm at least half a mile away, but much further than I thought I would be
To finding my way out of this hole, but the darkness here is so soothing
And I swear but the truth gets me nowhere
And I run but there's darkness everywhere
Paranoid you can't sleep
Paralyzed you can't see
Through the lies that surround you
Paranoid you can't sleep
Paralyzed you can't see
Through the lies that surround you
Substance seals leaks in you, damaged ship so we sink right
Before my eyes but it's putting out the fire well
Carnage lights up the sky but it's just as well
No one's fine sinking into the darkness it's no surprise
Paranoid you can't sleep
Paralyzed you can't see
Through the lies that surround you
Paranoid you can't sleep
Paralyzed you can't see
Through the lies that surround you
What you can't see is your disease, is everything its everything and you
You can't taste this, cause you just waste it
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