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 wake up and wonder where you're really going
Reach the age in your life, you wanted to achieve you goals
No
Confusion, it lingers, making me feel sick to my stomach
Because who knows what will happen next
I've shattered into pieces in this world
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(This world, your world, my world)
Confusion, it lingers, a fear of loathing that I regret
Because who knows what will happen next
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(This world, your world, my world)
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(This world, your world, my world)
What do you want in life
Do you have plans for the future
I wonder, does anything matter
It's not all the same old fate and it's all wrong
Hold onto your goals or you'll have nothing
(You have)
Nothing
(You have)
Nothing
(You have)
Nothing
Why
Have I shattered into pieces in this world
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(this world, your world, my world)
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(this world, your world, my world)
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(this world, your world...)
My world
Reach the age in your life, you wanted to achieve you goals
No
Confusion, it lingers, making me feel sick to my stomach
Because who knows what will happen next
I've shattered into pieces in this world
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(This world, your world, my world)
Confusion, it lingers, a fear of loathing that I regret
Because who knows what will happen next
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(This world, your world, my world)
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(This world, your world, my world)
What do you want in life
Do you have plans for the future
I wonder, does anything matter
It's not all the same old fate and it's all wrong
Hold onto your goals or you'll have nothing
(You have)
Nothing
(You have)
Nothing
(You have)
Nothing
Why
Have I shattered into pieces in this world
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(this world, your world, my world)
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(this world, your world, my world)
I've shattered into pieces in this world
(this world, your world...)
My world
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this song kinda goes on to say who we all have it everyday, like u know, we don't know what will happen next and stuff..... i just love this song so much....
I would just like to say:
ADEMA IS A MEDICAL TERM! A MEDICAL TERM FOR SWELLING! HOW CAN YOU RESPECT A BAND THAT DOESNT HAVE THE COMMON SENSE TO MAKE A NAME THAT IS RELEVANT TO WHAT THEY STAND FOR? HOW CAN YOU LISTEN TO THAT CRAP? WHAT THE FUCK DOES SHATTERING PIECES IN THE WORLD HAVE TO DO WITH SWELLING? WHAT DOES THIS BAND HAVE IN REFERNCE TO SWELLING? THIS BAND IS A JOKE. I LAUGH AT YOU. I DO APPRICIATE THIS BANDS IGNORANCE FOR ONE THING: THE FACT THAT THE IDIOTS THAT LISTEN TO THEIR SHIT ARE BUSY LISTENING TO THIS AND NOT MY MUSIC.
Shut the fuck up tragedy, Adema is a good band, give them the fucking credit they deserve. Who cares about their fucking name, its just a name. Would you hate KoRn or Slipknot because their nams? Your music is probly shit. That fucking Emo or punk shit. I fucking hate that shit. Its just a name, so chill out.
let me just say, you're all fucked for being here, and my excuse for being on this fucking site is just to bad mouth pansy ass fags you can't write their own music so they come here to bitch
oh, and I fucking love music myself
on a lighter note, adeam is in the same ass kicking league as flaw, sevendust, and nonpoint
so if you diss adema you diss them
and if you diss all that then you diss me
so fuck you then
by the way
check out Altico great band
Kevlar
does anyone know where i can find this song to listen to it?
Dear A Certain Tragedy, who the fuck are you to say the people who lisen to this are idiots and so what if adema means swelling what the fuck does your name mean A CERTAIN TRAGEDY ya know what the tragedy is its that your a fucken loser who has nuttin better to do but look up the names of a band that rocks.what kind of music do you lisen to country?¿ you probally do.and now that i wasted enoght odf my times writen to a loser like you.
Contiune: Im out
well actually A CERTAIN TRAGEDY Adema is not a medical term. Edema is. If you wanna get technical Adema is an acroym for Alliance for Democracy in Mali or Association pour le Développement de l'Enseignement Médical par l'Audiovisuel so...uh do a little research maybe next time....
So uh, no one's got any ideas about this song's meaning then, eh? I'm going to say that it's about just not being sure where you're going in life and such