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"
Pulling this watch as faces go
Pulling in a word and done it slow
This other time
I see your face is silent
Go, we go away and
What have you done?
Takes a feeling inside us all
Continue out
With just one push of my arm
But you're so close now
And you're so close now
All I have to do is three short blows
All that still is pressed inside
The full when the wall
And you don't even know
All I have to do is kill her
All I have to do is kill her
All I have to do is kill her
And all the other faces here with me
The others dressed in summer's things
Finding one way to be wonderful
Finding one way to the other souls
And every time it's you
It's like the blood on the stairs is sent away
And every time we see it's all said before you
Finding the ways to kill you
You used to say this fear of drowning
Fear no death by water
Father walks in at the foot of the bed
Six of you want to see you safe
Just one time you'll meet this man
All you've got to do is kill her
And all you've got to do is kill her
Trickle the sands against and pull the animals
Just out of the womb
Seeing the cow dead before he was born
The man he, he loved
The solid pieces fell on the ground
He couldn't kill another life
He couldn't kill another life
He couldn't kill another life
It's all been putting up
It could have been some friends
Pulling strings so I could meet you
All I want to do is hit you
She says
"Look over my shoulder!
See the sky!"
And the sky goes black!
And the sky goes black!
I just told you to be there!
I just told you to be there!
Angels come to be there!
Angels come to be there!
Everytime I looked up the stairs
I used to see her die
She would move so slow
Anyone could have been but she was a cat
Anyone could have been she was a cat
Pulling away as I used to fight
Let's just make some noise
That ugly or pretty
The face stays the same
Her face stays the same
Her face stays the same
The ugly or pretty
Her face stays the same
Stays the same, stays the same
And looking on the final walls
And looking on the final walls
Did you now find this malice out
The angels fall
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Looking for help, help they used to say
Help me be your mother for just one day
Let's fall in churches far outside
They used to love
They used to love
They used to
They used to
Love
Pulling in a word and done it slow
This other time
I see your face is silent
Go, we go away and
What have you done?
Takes a feeling inside us all
Continue out
With just one push of my arm
But you're so close now
And you're so close now
All I have to do is three short blows
All that still is pressed inside
The full when the wall
And you don't even know
All I have to do is kill her
All I have to do is kill her
All I have to do is kill her
And all the other faces here with me
The others dressed in summer's things
Finding one way to be wonderful
Finding one way to the other souls
And every time it's you
It's like the blood on the stairs is sent away
And every time we see it's all said before you
Finding the ways to kill you
You used to say this fear of drowning
Fear no death by water
Father walks in at the foot of the bed
Six of you want to see you safe
Just one time you'll meet this man
All you've got to do is kill her
And all you've got to do is kill her
Trickle the sands against and pull the animals
Just out of the womb
Seeing the cow dead before he was born
The man he, he loved
The solid pieces fell on the ground
He couldn't kill another life
He couldn't kill another life
He couldn't kill another life
It's all been putting up
It could have been some friends
Pulling strings so I could meet you
All I want to do is hit you
She says
"Look over my shoulder!
See the sky!"
And the sky goes black!
And the sky goes black!
I just told you to be there!
I just told you to be there!
Angels come to be there!
Angels come to be there!
Everytime I looked up the stairs
I used to see her die
She would move so slow
Anyone could have been but she was a cat
Anyone could have been she was a cat
Pulling away as I used to fight
Let's just make some noise
That ugly or pretty
The face stays the same
Her face stays the same
Her face stays the same
The ugly or pretty
Her face stays the same
Stays the same, stays the same
And looking on the final walls
And looking on the final walls
Did you now find this malice out
The angels fall
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Looking for help, help they used to say
Help me be your mother for just one day
Let's fall in churches far outside
They used to love
They used to love
They used to
They used to
Love
Lyrics submitted by MDMaster, edited by Mellow_Harsher, ciccio, granday
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