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"
There's a tear in my heart where the blood ran out.
There's a tear in my heart where the love ran out.
I thought we worked, pushed toward the same ends,
I'll never be so quick to trust again.
Disenchanted, disgusted, I regret that I trusted.
I put my faith.
My faith in you, you poisoned me through and through.
I though we both shared the same injuries.
Now I've found it's you who injures me.
My heart is cracked from being left out in the cold.
I know you'll pay for what you've taken - tenfold.
Disenchanted, disgusted, I regret that I trusted.
I put my faith.
My faith in them, they twisted the knife further in.
There's a tear in my heart where the love ran out.
I thought we worked, pushed toward the same ends,
I'll never be so quick to trust again.
Disenchanted, disgusted, I regret that I trusted.
I put my faith.
My faith in you, you poisoned me through and through.
I though we both shared the same injuries.
Now I've found it's you who injures me.
My heart is cracked from being left out in the cold.
I know you'll pay for what you've taken - tenfold.
Disenchanted, disgusted, I regret that I trusted.
I put my faith.
My faith in them, they twisted the knife further in.
Lyrics submitted by oofus
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I think its pretty simple... I think its about someone he loved and trusted who left him. And he know realizes it was a mistake to get involved with this person. And they only hurt him more rather than help.
yes. but maybe its not even about love, just about trusting people in general. who knows :)
i think it's about when a person he cared about a lot and trusted betrayed him. he realized that this person had been hurting thim all along, and he finds it difficult to trust again.
man, this song is EXACTLY the way i feel right now...it is like my life story. shiittt
I think its about a guy that trusts a person and it is broken. Everytime the person hurts him he thinks its ok because they share the same pain. And finally he realizes that he is in it alone.
It does seem like someone who he trusted hurt him and abused him, but he didn't realize it until they'd almost broke him. And how he'd thought that what was happening was hurting both of them, but it was only one-sided.
But there's another way to view this. It's still about putting faith in someone, but in a different manner. Like that he told someone something personal and painful about his life, and they used it to hurt him, or manipulate him. and he thought that they had experienced something similar. Pretty much the same concept, except this time in specifics.
The only other way I could see this is if someone he knew and trusted died and he felt hurt and abandoned by them because they went away and left him behind to be hurt. And disenchanted could be that the innocence of thinking that death can never happen to me was shattere and he's resentful because it brings in a new harshness to a reality that is hard enough as is. shrug Just an abstract view of the song meaning, which seems possible.
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Luv y'all! Sox
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