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"
Everybody online?
It's the beginning of the end
You want things to go faster
It's the beginning of the end
Now everything's too slow for you
It's the beginning of the end
You are one step closer
It's the beginning of the end
Say Amen
[Chorus]
1-800-SUICIDE
Or maybe Doctor Online could help you die
You need wings to fly
You need someone
To take your place
When you are gone
It's the beginning of the end
You know nothing last forever
A beginning of a trend
You need someone there to care for you
It's the beginning of the end
I don't think you understand
Just a beginning of a flatline
Together
[Chorus: x2]
Thank you for calling 1-800-SUICIDE
If you wish to self terminate by electric shock press one
For termination by overdose press two
If you would like to make a reservation at the end of our drowning pool please press three
For termination by hanging please press four
For death by self inflicted gunshot press five
To speak to a representative, stay on the line
If you do not wish to die please hang up now
[Chorus: x2]
It's the beginning of the end
You want things to go faster
It's the beginning of the end
Now everything's too slow for you
It's the beginning of the end
You are one step closer
It's the beginning of the end
Say Amen
[Chorus]
1-800-SUICIDE
Or maybe Doctor Online could help you die
You need wings to fly
You need someone
To take your place
When you are gone
It's the beginning of the end
You know nothing last forever
A beginning of a trend
You need someone there to care for you
It's the beginning of the end
I don't think you understand
Just a beginning of a flatline
Together
[Chorus: x2]
Thank you for calling 1-800-SUICIDE
If you wish to self terminate by electric shock press one
For termination by overdose press two
If you would like to make a reservation at the end of our drowning pool please press three
For termination by hanging please press four
For death by self inflicted gunshot press five
To speak to a representative, stay on the line
If you do not wish to die please hang up now
[Chorus: x2]
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Dr. Online Lyrics as written by Kim Ljung
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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