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"
Once someone told
A story about these small desert birds
Throwing themselves
In thorns when copulating in lust
And while embraced by death
They sing so fine than never
And while embraced by death
They stay in love forever
Like martyrs do
They dedicate their lifes in deep vein
Of ancient vows
And die of flaring ardour in haze
Thorns they lurk on roses stem
They do intend no harm them
Squeezing me hard
In thorns that burn like a fire inside
Thrilling my head
Until they rip my shivering skin
Thorns they lurk on roses stem
They do intend no harm them
They lurk on bodies stem
They make my heart arise them
A story about these small desert birds
Throwing themselves
In thorns when copulating in lust
And while embraced by death
They sing so fine than never
And while embraced by death
They stay in love forever
Like martyrs do
They dedicate their lifes in deep vein
Of ancient vows
And die of flaring ardour in haze
Thorns they lurk on roses stem
They do intend no harm them
Squeezing me hard
In thorns that burn like a fire inside
Thrilling my head
Until they rip my shivering skin
Thorns they lurk on roses stem
They do intend no harm them
They lurk on bodies stem
They make my heart arise them
Lyrics submitted by jt
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I'm pretty sure he's talking about that poem (Once someone told a story about these small desert birds, throwing themselves in thorns when copulating in lust...And while embraced by death they sing so fine than never).
@Silent_Hitman009 Yeah, he references the poem but only to serve as a vessel for the meaning one gets out of this track. Whatever it may be to whomever.