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"
Come the tides We hear tell of the mortal season Fed rife with rhyme and reason Tainted with despair
Kill-darkened skies Painted black, so black with misery Raining down with impunity
Oh, the cross we've brought to bear
In the treason fields Where man again destroys what man built
Man wears the weighted cloak of man's guilt For the blind we must remind
Raise your eyes Behind a martyr's mask of supplication
I find you guilty by association Mute, somehow divine
I Sing True I can see right through you
Thirst for truth Spit out the lies inside and search for meaning
The child in your hanging head lays bleeding Another dream to drown
Ignorance Seek your knowledge in the volumes of dust
Render all to ashes and rust And child, bring that hammer down
I sing true I can see right through you
These latter days They bear eternal winter's coming frost
And the death of innocence In this dying age we wander lost
Deny the Hand of Man
Celebrate Wherever mercy falls drunk you'll find me
In the gutter, ever in the company Of angels, and of kings
Millennium All the memories will fade like twilight
Take your place on either side of midnight And sing, dear brother, sing
I sing true I can see right through you
Right on cue That face you wear betrays you
Kill-darkened skies Painted black, so black with misery Raining down with impunity
Oh, the cross we've brought to bear
In the treason fields Where man again destroys what man built
Man wears the weighted cloak of man's guilt For the blind we must remind
Raise your eyes Behind a martyr's mask of supplication
I find you guilty by association Mute, somehow divine
I Sing True I can see right through you
Thirst for truth Spit out the lies inside and search for meaning
The child in your hanging head lays bleeding Another dream to drown
Ignorance Seek your knowledge in the volumes of dust
Render all to ashes and rust And child, bring that hammer down
I sing true I can see right through you
These latter days They bear eternal winter's coming frost
And the death of innocence In this dying age we wander lost
Deny the Hand of Man
Celebrate Wherever mercy falls drunk you'll find me
In the gutter, ever in the company Of angels, and of kings
Millennium All the memories will fade like twilight
Take your place on either side of midnight And sing, dear brother, sing
I sing true I can see right through you
Right on cue That face you wear betrays you
Lyrics submitted by Digital_Tempest
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