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"
'And it must serve as a statute to time indefinite to you people. In the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you should afflict your souls...and you must not do any work...'
What reward could ever pay eternal
Not this compromise of who I am and what we are
They expect a simple faith, a common love
They claim to know the God who is above
Close your eyes or you will scream, afraid of God
Don't you understand that they claim what they are not
We stand, it is a crime; we are alone
We fall; they break us down just like a bone that
Snaps beneath the strain from every side
If we learn that we can heal, then we can rise
Our soul can never die, but it can feel
And love and hate and laugh and cry; if it is real
This life is just a trap
Another trick to make us think
That we are weak
But we forget that when we die
And we are free
And we are whole, we are one
Eternal life, immortal soul
In this world of give and take, of love and hate
Too many feed upon the fear that they create
In this world of give and take, of love and hate
Too many feed upon the fear that they create, for the Crown
It never busts, don't you ever snap
Never fear, and never long for what we had in the past
It's over now, we built a wall of lies
A fantasy which we despise, but we know
We had a choice we never made
And now we cry a waterfall, like it would help at all
Escape the blame that is now a part of you
A part of us; it is a crown of
Life is just a trap
Another trick to make us think
That we are weak
But we forget that when we die
And we are free
And we are whole, we are one
Eternal life, immortal soul
In this world of give and take, of love and hate
Too many feed upon the fear that they create
In this world of give and take, of love and hate
Too many feed upon the fear that they create
For the Crown
It is of Life
For the Crown
It for us to make
Wishes grant themselves if time is generous
A vision injustice could never embrace
And now the resource is drained
Sinking into the fabric, it smothers our shame
From day to day, purify this routine
Sinking into the fabric, it smothers our shame
From day to day, purify this routine
Sinking into the fabric, it smothers our shame
'Making your ear attentive to wisdom, and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you cry out for insight, if you raise your voice for understanding; if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden tresures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord'
What reward could ever pay eternal
Not this compromise of who I am and what we are
They expect a simple faith, a common love
They claim to know the God who is above
Close your eyes or you will scream, afraid of God
Don't you understand that they claim what they are not
We stand, it is a crime; we are alone
We fall; they break us down just like a bone that
Snaps beneath the strain from every side
If we learn that we can heal, then we can rise
Our soul can never die, but it can feel
And love and hate and laugh and cry; if it is real
This life is just a trap
Another trick to make us think
That we are weak
But we forget that when we die
And we are free
And we are whole, we are one
Eternal life, immortal soul
In this world of give and take, of love and hate
Too many feed upon the fear that they create
In this world of give and take, of love and hate
Too many feed upon the fear that they create, for the Crown
It never busts, don't you ever snap
Never fear, and never long for what we had in the past
It's over now, we built a wall of lies
A fantasy which we despise, but we know
We had a choice we never made
And now we cry a waterfall, like it would help at all
Escape the blame that is now a part of you
A part of us; it is a crown of
Life is just a trap
Another trick to make us think
That we are weak
But we forget that when we die
And we are free
And we are whole, we are one
Eternal life, immortal soul
In this world of give and take, of love and hate
Too many feed upon the fear that they create
In this world of give and take, of love and hate
Too many feed upon the fear that they create
For the Crown
It is of Life
For the Crown
It for us to make
Wishes grant themselves if time is generous
A vision injustice could never embrace
And now the resource is drained
Sinking into the fabric, it smothers our shame
From day to day, purify this routine
Sinking into the fabric, it smothers our shame
From day to day, purify this routine
Sinking into the fabric, it smothers our shame
'Making your ear attentive to wisdom, and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you cry out for insight, if you raise your voice for understanding; if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden tresures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord'
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