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"
Nothings changed the senates still corrupt & the emporer remains insane and everyday is a new strain of slaughter supply lines are less protected evil on all sides eye can smell the death on your flesh -- creeping in trapped within the twisting fingers of fear and all eye see is ewe that face those eyes burning like leprosy eye can see you there poisoning the air prostituting Nationalism and eye want to attack to rip out your heart and lay your flat on your back and vomit a world of agony and truth into your throbbing illness of memory ... and hate guides our way eye long for the icy slap of a belt across my back for the acceptance of death and blind cave war the giving sleep of depression the sweet elucidation of savage, meaningless aggression chiseled in the meaty forearms of Mother Jupiter and his slave disciples in the harem tents - outside just beyond the edges - eye ride a cycloptic mare in the fires of imagination feeding my disease a river of plagues eye need something to remind me eye am still sinning that pain in important that wurdz matter that healing in possible that eye am not alone ... in this - guard the houses - triple the watch - maidens, dig up your sorcery - sirens, sharpen your rocks ... ewe will eat my pain again whatever you need unite messiah ME
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