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"
I'll set the sights higher!
I'll set the sights higher!
Higher and higher!
I'll set the sights higher!
A dividing conflict is about to come
A virtual mass murder!
You better run!
DHR - Emphasised...
Our results make them compromise!
60 seconds until the meltdown
Another countdown will make my day!
Anarchist leagues are forming all over
Nowhere! We're going to pay!
I don't and I won't and you know what it's all about!
Fuck the new conformity!
We gonna take you down!
We add risks to the explosive situation
Americanized mass manipulation:
A waste of mankind!
And that's just a taste!
They got the money and we get the blade!
And then things get out of control...
Just back off! Some heads going to roll!
My soul is on fire! I'm warning you:
The next messiah I am! I'll bang your fucking head!
The new Aushwitz is hiding
A nation is accused -
But I tell you
We will survive! There's nothing you can do!
Come on!
Everybody is talking like it's too late!
Fuck you and fuck your state!
I'm going to take it all on me:
Destroy the USA!
I don't need no fucking pretending!
Here I am and I'm still standing...
Abandoned anarchist decontrol!
Fuck you! We go for soul!
Anarchy in 1999! Anarchy in 1999! Just a start!
Just a start in 99! Anarchy in 1999!
Anarchy in 99! Anarchy!
You drop the knife and I'll kill you...
Go too far and then you'll know!
We know we got lost like an erased error!
Fuck your heart! I'm gonna tear it out!
Firing words of death and I leave you in a mess!
The capitol is dead!
We reunite a new underground!
ATR - Arsonists take control!
We don't need no water let the Arsonists
Burn (burn muthafucka burn)
We don't need no water let the Arsonists
Burn (burn muthafucka burn)
Forget everything you've ever considered real
And fear the turning of the New Year
As 2000 moves near countdown
'Till the ball drops
No more cops run for cover
From the falling atomic rocks
Y2k deletes us from the program
The presidents an alien from planet zoltan
Nowhere to go man
Surrounded by death and disease
The sun looses it's heat and the planet'll freeze
Ah ah I can't take no more feel the dreary blood
Just seeping through my pores
Sore ripping apocalypse dominate anonymous
Catalyst of fear engulf the bright metropolis
Ain't no stopping this watch carnage through your picket fence
Drench wickedest stench no appeal to make amends
Say goodbye my friends to your life of all pretend
I compute the bible code so we all become a has been
In the days of the futures past here at last
I engage in the task of protecting what we have splattering the bad
Calculate the math 5760... 52 years to think quickly
Death for peace my destiny is born ready
Kamui's weapon x aligned with the god text
Samurai which wills to die from condomless sex
Generation x is lost in holocaust not guided by the force
The mind divorced the body and our souls is what it cost
Burn, burn motherfucker! Burn!
The world the world the world is on fire
The world the world the world is on fire
Time's not up for me!
The league - A new start!
And no beginning...
And then things get out of control...
You'll wait and see...
The gamble of the whole white supremacy lie
It's out there to die!
Anarchy in 99! Just a start!
Anarchy in 99! Just a start in 99!
Just a start in 99!
Anarchist atari teenage riot
In 1999... from 1999 on!
I'll set the sights higher!
Higher and higher!
I'll set the sights higher!
A dividing conflict is about to come
A virtual mass murder!
You better run!
DHR - Emphasised...
Our results make them compromise!
60 seconds until the meltdown
Another countdown will make my day!
Anarchist leagues are forming all over
Nowhere! We're going to pay!
I don't and I won't and you know what it's all about!
Fuck the new conformity!
We gonna take you down!
We add risks to the explosive situation
Americanized mass manipulation:
A waste of mankind!
And that's just a taste!
They got the money and we get the blade!
And then things get out of control...
Just back off! Some heads going to roll!
My soul is on fire! I'm warning you:
The next messiah I am! I'll bang your fucking head!
The new Aushwitz is hiding
A nation is accused -
But I tell you
We will survive! There's nothing you can do!
Come on!
Everybody is talking like it's too late!
Fuck you and fuck your state!
I'm going to take it all on me:
Destroy the USA!
I don't need no fucking pretending!
Here I am and I'm still standing...
Abandoned anarchist decontrol!
Fuck you! We go for soul!
Anarchy in 1999! Anarchy in 1999! Just a start!
Just a start in 99! Anarchy in 1999!
Anarchy in 99! Anarchy!
You drop the knife and I'll kill you...
Go too far and then you'll know!
We know we got lost like an erased error!
Fuck your heart! I'm gonna tear it out!
Firing words of death and I leave you in a mess!
The capitol is dead!
We reunite a new underground!
ATR - Arsonists take control!
We don't need no water let the Arsonists
Burn (burn muthafucka burn)
We don't need no water let the Arsonists
Burn (burn muthafucka burn)
Forget everything you've ever considered real
And fear the turning of the New Year
As 2000 moves near countdown
'Till the ball drops
No more cops run for cover
From the falling atomic rocks
Y2k deletes us from the program
The presidents an alien from planet zoltan
Nowhere to go man
Surrounded by death and disease
The sun looses it's heat and the planet'll freeze
Ah ah I can't take no more feel the dreary blood
Just seeping through my pores
Sore ripping apocalypse dominate anonymous
Catalyst of fear engulf the bright metropolis
Ain't no stopping this watch carnage through your picket fence
Drench wickedest stench no appeal to make amends
Say goodbye my friends to your life of all pretend
I compute the bible code so we all become a has been
In the days of the futures past here at last
I engage in the task of protecting what we have splattering the bad
Calculate the math 5760... 52 years to think quickly
Death for peace my destiny is born ready
Kamui's weapon x aligned with the god text
Samurai which wills to die from condomless sex
Generation x is lost in holocaust not guided by the force
The mind divorced the body and our souls is what it cost
Burn, burn motherfucker! Burn!
The world the world the world is on fire
The world the world the world is on fire
Time's not up for me!
The league - A new start!
And no beginning...
And then things get out of control...
You'll wait and see...
The gamble of the whole white supremacy lie
It's out there to die!
Anarchy in 99! Just a start!
Anarchy in 99! Just a start in 99!
Just a start in 99!
Anarchist atari teenage riot
In 1999... from 1999 on!
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