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"
I find myself inside a church deserted by the priests
As shadows shift from gray to red I notice there's no floor
Transparent air suspends my weight as if I had no mass
Then suddenly the moon comes out from the clouded skies
Wet and cold from shifting daydreams wakeful in the sleep
Windowpane observing some commotion down below
Waiting for the noise to come to blur the weary mind
Watching as a pastime and I'm the fallen star
(Go film) We can all be gods
(Go film) We will all be heroes
(Go film) We are all immortal
(Go film) We will all be safe
(Go film) We are all illusions
(Go film) And we never touch
(Go film) Go film
I will shine again with burning light when I return
In and out from foreign shores I've gone astray in time
Born to search for something I have never ever seen
On an endless quest to hostile ground and unknown lands
Then the scene go back to where it started and I fall
As shadows shift from red to gray I notice there's no floor
And gravity awakes me as it throws me to the ground
A million tiny grains of dust obscures me from your eyes
(Go film) We can all be gods
(Go film) We will all be heroes
(Go film) We are all immortal
(Go film) We will all be safe
(Go film) We are all illusions
(Go film) And we never touch
(Go film) Go film
Go film
(Go film) We can all be gods
(Go film) We will all be heroes
(Go film) We are all immortal
(Go film) We will all be safe
(Go film) We are all illusions
(Go film) And we never touch
(Go film) Go film
Go film
(Go film) We can all be gods
(Go film) We will all be heroes
(Go film) We are all immortal
(Go film) We will all be safe
(Go film) We are all illusions
(Go film) And we never touch
(Go film) Go film
(Go film)
As shadows shift from gray to red I notice there's no floor
Transparent air suspends my weight as if I had no mass
Then suddenly the moon comes out from the clouded skies
Wet and cold from shifting daydreams wakeful in the sleep
Windowpane observing some commotion down below
Waiting for the noise to come to blur the weary mind
Watching as a pastime and I'm the fallen star
(Go film) We can all be gods
(Go film) We will all be heroes
(Go film) We are all immortal
(Go film) We will all be safe
(Go film) We are all illusions
(Go film) And we never touch
(Go film) Go film
I will shine again with burning light when I return
In and out from foreign shores I've gone astray in time
Born to search for something I have never ever seen
On an endless quest to hostile ground and unknown lands
Then the scene go back to where it started and I fall
As shadows shift from red to gray I notice there's no floor
And gravity awakes me as it throws me to the ground
A million tiny grains of dust obscures me from your eyes
(Go film) We can all be gods
(Go film) We will all be heroes
(Go film) We are all immortal
(Go film) We will all be safe
(Go film) We are all illusions
(Go film) And we never touch
(Go film) Go film
Go film
(Go film) We can all be gods
(Go film) We will all be heroes
(Go film) We are all immortal
(Go film) We will all be safe
(Go film) We are all illusions
(Go film) And we never touch
(Go film) Go film
Go film
(Go film) We can all be gods
(Go film) We will all be heroes
(Go film) We are all immortal
(Go film) We will all be safe
(Go film) We are all illusions
(Go film) And we never touch
(Go film) Go film
(Go film)
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