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"
You pull me by the arm and tell me what to believe
You tell me that there's only one way, one way to see
Well whatever faith you choose may not be for me
How can I be saved while being forced to believe
Let's save the world, one by one
We'll make them believe
Conform if they must
Don't question the though, what's always been told
We'll make them believe
Let's save the world
So spread the word and tell me of good news
That if I act right, I can be like you
Well to live is to learn and think for yourself
And I'll do just that, I don't need your help
Let's save the world, one by one
We'll make them believe
Conform if they must
Don't question the though, what's always been told
We'll make them believe
Let's save the world
You tell me that there's only one way, one way to see
Well whatever faith you choose may not be for me
How can I be saved while being forced to believe
Let's save the world, one by one
We'll make them believe
Conform if they must
Don't question the though, what's always been told
We'll make them believe
Let's save the world
So spread the word and tell me of good news
That if I act right, I can be like you
Well to live is to learn and think for yourself
And I'll do just that, I don't need your help
Let's save the world, one by one
We'll make them believe
Conform if they must
Don't question the though, what's always been told
We'll make them believe
Let's save the world
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i think this song is about religion.
I dunno.I think it's basically about having a mind of your own
yeha its about having a mind of your own adn when someones forcing to believe somehting or do somethign you dont want to you just have to do your own thing and not conform to what everyone else says
i think they are making fun of people who belive in what they have grown up knowing. They are saying that it is wrong to froce religion on anyone, but most people dont force they ask to help them find something. I like the song, but that is what i think it means. Dont conform and dont belive something if you dont know what it is.
yea what theyre saying is that many majority religions are forced upon younger people so they grow up without knowing anything else. Unfortunately, they are mostly brainwashed into believin them. In the song they say that people should think for themselves. Theyre right!!
i love this song, but i just wanted to ask you, what's the time of the raining in september???? its important
this song alludes to a quote in Self -Reliance by Emerson.. "for nonconformity, the world whips you w/ its displeasure." just thought id share.. hehee
finally a song that agrees with my opinion that if you're forced into something your heart won't be in it. for example people tell you you're wrong for not being Christian and believing in their god, well would you rather me be one and just hate it the whole time and not love god like you so unquestioningly do?
scott wot do you mean about rainging in september??? LOL Gr8 song, the 1st rufio song i got, an instant classic, and now i got abt 28 songs wich all rock.