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"
Sweet oblivion
Don't leave me waiting too long
Once we were a tease
We had everything we could ask for, here in your cold embrace
There is no distance or time
But in such sweet solitude
My pain starts to fade away
Meet me in the bathroom and I'll show you everything
I'll give you something that you can belive in
You kept me waiting
Waiting for oh so long
Don't leave me standing here
Sweet oblivion
Don't leave me waiting too long
Cuz when I lost my mind
You're the only one I could
turn to Perpetuate, but I'd be wasting my time
I've finally realized you're the only on that I needed
Meet me in the bathroom and I'll show you everything
I'll give you something that you can believe in
You kept me waiting
Waiting for oh so long
Don't leave me standing here
All this filth and disease that brought us all to our knees, but the faithful will keep holding on
When all that they're living for is gone
to never see the sun
Don't leave me waiting too long
Once we were a tease
We had everything we could ask for, here in your cold embrace
There is no distance or time
But in such sweet solitude
My pain starts to fade away
Meet me in the bathroom and I'll show you everything
I'll give you something that you can belive in
You kept me waiting
Waiting for oh so long
Don't leave me standing here
Sweet oblivion
Don't leave me waiting too long
Cuz when I lost my mind
You're the only one I could
turn to Perpetuate, but I'd be wasting my time
I've finally realized you're the only on that I needed
Meet me in the bathroom and I'll show you everything
I'll give you something that you can believe in
You kept me waiting
Waiting for oh so long
Don't leave me standing here
All this filth and disease that brought us all to our knees, but the faithful will keep holding on
When all that they're living for is gone
to never see the sun
Lyrics submitted by carboncentric
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second line -
'once we were so at ease'
not
'once we were a tease'
you guys aint even close. Another one of the songs by the Deadlights is called "junk", another word for dope (heroin.) And this song, if you 'get' it is clearly about heroin.
Sweet oblivion is a term that lots of people have used to describe the rush and high from heroin and the life of bein addicted in general, but that aint the only reason im saying this.
Any heroin junkie will tell you that you spend most of your time in the bathroom. dopeheads are constantly sneaking off to do a shot/get high in the bathroom. The first thing you look for when you enter a house, restaurant/etc, is wheres the bathroom and does it have a good lock.
When he sings "meet me in the bathroom, and ill show you everything, and ill give you somethin that you can believe in" its about the moment of total alone-ness when its just you and the rush. For addicts heroin is the one thing that matters in a meaningless world, its somethin to believe in, the one thing that keeps you goin.
"Cuz when I lost my mind You're the only one I could turn to"
self explanatory here. When you cant handle life and everything is crazy heroin is the only thing that matters, the only thing that will soothe your pain away.
And the part that probably 'locks in' the meaning the most and really makes it clear is the lyrics at the end : "All this filth and disease that brought us all to our knees, but the faithful will keep holding on When all that they're living for is gone "
the life of addiction is a dirty, shitty, sad, hopeless, lotta times diseased existence, just a real scrapin-the-bottom way to live. All the filth and disease that brought us all to our knees is the downsides of the addicts life, all the negatives, the sickness, withdrawal, diseases, filth surrounding you, etc--but the "faithful" (the true addicts) keep holding on, keep using, they dont quit, they dont stop, they never will, they just keep goin, shootin dope til they die--even when they lose their families, friends, jobs, children, husband/wife, money, homes, cars, their dreams, hopes--everything that makes a life a life--all that theyre living for is gone--but they keep holdin on, keep using, never see the sun, just livin that waste of a life til they die.
With lyrics like that its not even something that you "could" interpret that way--its very obviously about heroin and addiction.