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"
In your life
You seem to have it all
You seem to have control
But deep within your soul
You're losing it
You never took the time
Assume that you're to blame
You think that you're insane
Won't you spare me
I know the breakdown
Everything is gonna shake now someday
I know the breakdown
Tell me again am I awake now
Maybe you can find the reason that
No one else is living this way
Yeah your lies your world is built around
Two faces to a clown
The voices in your head think
There's four pawns down
Well in this unity
Fate has found the need
You better check yourself
Before you check out
If you find yourself
Then you might believe
Then within yourself
You just might conceive
You can find the reason that
(You can find the reason that)
No one else is living this way
(You can find the reason that way)
You seem to have it all
You seem to have control
But deep within your soul
You're losing it
You never took the time
Assume that you're to blame
You think that you're insane
Won't you spare me
I know the breakdown
Everything is gonna shake now someday
I know the breakdown
Tell me again am I awake now
Maybe you can find the reason that
No one else is living this way
Yeah your lies your world is built around
Two faces to a clown
The voices in your head think
There's four pawns down
Well in this unity
Fate has found the need
You better check yourself
Before you check out
If you find yourself
Then you might believe
Then within yourself
You just might conceive
You can find the reason that
(You can find the reason that)
No one else is living this way
(You can find the reason that way)
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I don't know, but the lead singer of Tantric reminds me a lot of Scott Stapp fom Creed and Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam, but besides that this really song rocks!!!
this song is so awesome! i think it has a similar meaning to Astounded, about being your own person and finding your way.
I dont know why this song is beautiful, but it is. (yeah, i know i've said that about almost every song i have commented...) anyways, Tantric have a good thing going here. I enjoy their music.
i love his voice and just the way the song sung. i agree tantric are going to go far if they know how to deal with record companies. their lyrics are meaningful but not korny or sappy, and again, the lead singer has a very unique voice that'll make anyone want to listen to their songs.
Yo! This song is tight! Tighter than my little brother's coat on my big sister. If you understand the lyrics and what's goin' on, then you'll be feelin' this song. No muthafuckin' doubt this shit is da bomb!
lol I agree with linkman
this is probably the best song in the world. i like the part in the song when he says "you can find the reason that no one else is living this way".. BUT that's jussst me
I think it's about the struggle for control in your personal life. Sometimes it's not easy at all.
I think this is about someone who is having a lifestyle that's bound to lead to problems eventually.
Perhaps a song about alcoholic problem. I'm thinking about the line "your lies your world is built around two faces of a clown", indicating that you pretend that everything is normal in some situations while in others you show who you really are. And both faces are actually a joke.
Also the line "so you better check yourself before you check out" might be about admitting that you have a problem.
Great song anyway!
call me crazy, but i personally think that its about Days of the New frontman Travis Meeks, who kicked the guys that now play the instruments in Tantric, out of his band in 1998. Travis had a drug problem and eventually blew his fortune and ended up on A&E's Intervention for it. Tantric was kinda successful while days of the new burned to the ground and travis still cant seem to fix it. so yeah thats what i think its about.