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"
Do you hear this breath it's an obsessive breath
Can you feel this beat it's an obsessive heart beat
Waiting to be joined with its obsession
I close my eyes but I can't sleep
The thin membrane can't veil
The branded picture of you
The signs and signals show, the traffic lights say go
Again you baffle me pretending not to see, me
I broke into your room, I broke down in my room
Touched your belongings there, and left a lock of my hair
Another sign for you
You screamed into my face get the hell out of my place
Another sign for me? can you forgive me?
For not understanding your ways
You know sometimes you take it all too far
Then I remember it's a game between you and me
A divine test for us two
It's all in my imagination
Yes they even say that our mission, is only
My obsession
Do you hear this breath it's an oppressive breath
Suffocating in the poison of your obsession
Can you feel this beat it's a possessive beat
Your pulse stops in the claws of your obsession
Can you feel this beat it's an obsessive heart beat
Waiting to be joined with its obsession
I close my eyes but I can't sleep
The thin membrane can't veil
The branded picture of you
The signs and signals show, the traffic lights say go
Again you baffle me pretending not to see, me
I broke into your room, I broke down in my room
Touched your belongings there, and left a lock of my hair
Another sign for you
You screamed into my face get the hell out of my place
Another sign for me? can you forgive me?
For not understanding your ways
You know sometimes you take it all too far
Then I remember it's a game between you and me
A divine test for us two
It's all in my imagination
Yes they even say that our mission, is only
My obsession
Do you hear this breath it's an oppressive breath
Suffocating in the poison of your obsession
Can you feel this beat it's a possessive beat
Your pulse stops in the claws of your obsession
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