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"
cover your ears
disguise the sound
choose your course but don't turn around
the voice you hear will drag you in,
it will swallow you, don't let her in,
cover your ears
the hurt will end
but you musn't break
and you musn't bend
don't look back
it's all the same
you can't go back to that stupid game
the siren song
when you give up
and when you give in
you'll dash your heart against the rocks
close your heart,
close your eyes
before you fall to all these lies
it doesn't matter,
it will never change
this hated element still remains.
it still remains
cover your ears
disguise the sound
choose your course but don't turn around
the voice you hear will drag you in,
it will swallow you, don't let her in,
cover your ears
the hurt will end
but you musn't break
and you musn't bend
don't look back
it's all the same
you can't go back to that stupid game
the siren song
don't look back
you've got to be strong
you cannot listen to the siren's song
the siren song
disguise the sound
choose your course but don't turn around
the voice you hear will drag you in,
it will swallow you, don't let her in,
cover your ears
the hurt will end
but you musn't break
and you musn't bend
don't look back
it's all the same
you can't go back to that stupid game
the siren song
when you give up
and when you give in
you'll dash your heart against the rocks
close your heart,
close your eyes
before you fall to all these lies
it doesn't matter,
it will never change
this hated element still remains.
it still remains
cover your ears
disguise the sound
choose your course but don't turn around
the voice you hear will drag you in,
it will swallow you, don't let her in,
cover your ears
the hurt will end
but you musn't break
and you musn't bend
don't look back
it's all the same
you can't go back to that stupid game
the siren song
don't look back
you've got to be strong
you cannot listen to the siren's song
the siren song
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Reminds me of a similar song by Nightwish (The Siren) that creates the same image.
This song is about Odyessus' aventure with the Sirens. Homer said that when their song is heard, it lured mariners to their destruction on the rocks surrounding their island. Sirens are creatures with the head of a female and the body of a bird.
Close but no cigar, women's head with bird bodies are harpies. Siren's are best portrayed as winged maidens, though the word for mermaid in many languages is similar to siren, and so they've been portrayed as such in confusion.