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"
Deep slumber awakened by sirens
I realize life's been thrown to the lions
What I saw last night, our city so fair
And to my horror, the bloody town square
The time is now, we must avenge
We form to fight, we kill tonight
We must rest to regain our strength
We form to fight, we kill tonight
Battalion advances surrounding their backs
In the night we'll attack with no questions or mercy
We'll take all they have and we'll drive them before us
Hear lamentations of women who cry for the loved ones we crush to avenge
Gather all survivors, the forces retreat
They've leveled our city, there's rubble in the streets
Surprise attack with no explanation
What will we do with this demolished nation?
Death to come for what they've done
Stab their backs, their necks will crack
Stronger than ever, our guns held high
Stab their backs, their necks will crack
Battalion advances surrounding their backs
In the night we'll attack with no questions of mercy
We'll take all they have and we'll drive them before us
Hear lamentations of women who cry for the loved ones we crush to avenge
The people have organized an army of vengeance
Struck them down, the bodies just like remnants
Dogs of war, like lepers that are shunned
We stand proud, the battle has been won
The time is now, we must avenge
We form to fight, We kill tonight
We must rest to regain our strength
We form to fight, we kill tonight
Battalion advances surrounding their backs
In the night we'll attack with no questions of mercy
We'll take all they have and we'll drive them before us
Hear lamentations of women who cry for the loved ones we crush to avenge
I realize life's been thrown to the lions
What I saw last night, our city so fair
And to my horror, the bloody town square
The time is now, we must avenge
We form to fight, we kill tonight
We must rest to regain our strength
We form to fight, we kill tonight
Battalion advances surrounding their backs
In the night we'll attack with no questions or mercy
We'll take all they have and we'll drive them before us
Hear lamentations of women who cry for the loved ones we crush to avenge
Gather all survivors, the forces retreat
They've leveled our city, there's rubble in the streets
Surprise attack with no explanation
What will we do with this demolished nation?
Death to come for what they've done
Stab their backs, their necks will crack
Stronger than ever, our guns held high
Stab their backs, their necks will crack
Battalion advances surrounding their backs
In the night we'll attack with no questions of mercy
We'll take all they have and we'll drive them before us
Hear lamentations of women who cry for the loved ones we crush to avenge
The people have organized an army of vengeance
Struck them down, the bodies just like remnants
Dogs of war, like lepers that are shunned
We stand proud, the battle has been won
The time is now, we must avenge
We form to fight, We kill tonight
We must rest to regain our strength
We form to fight, we kill tonight
Battalion advances surrounding their backs
In the night we'll attack with no questions of mercy
We'll take all they have and we'll drive them before us
Hear lamentations of women who cry for the loved ones we crush to avenge
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In deep slumber awakened by sirens I realize life's been thrown to the lions What I saw last night, our city so fair And to my horror, the bloody town square
The time is now, we must avenge We form to fight, we kill tonight We must rest to regain our strength We form to fight, we kill tonight
Battalion advances surrounding their backs In the night we'll attack with no questions or mercy We'll take all they have and we'll drive them before us Hear lamentations of women who cry for the loved ones we crush to avenge
Gather all survivors, the forces retreat They've leveled our city, there's rubble in the streets Surprise attack with no explaination What will we do with this demolished nation?
Death to come for what they've done Stab their backs, their necks will crack Stronger than ever, our guns held high Stab their backs, their necks will crack
Battalion advances surrounding their backs In the night we'll attack with no questions of mercy We'll take all they have and we'll drive them before us Hear lamentations of women who cry for the loved ones we crush to avenge
The people have organized an army of vengeance Struck them down, the bodies just like remnants Dogs of war, like lepers that are shunned We stand proud, the battle has been won
The time is now, we must avenge We form to fight, We kill tonight We must rest to regain our strength We form to fight, we kill tonight
Battalion advances surrounding their backs In the night we'll attack with no questions of mercy We'll take all they have and we'll drive them before us Hear lamentations of women who cry for the loved ones we crush to avenge