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"
running away from this earth
may it pass away in the beautiful flames
that it was created for,
because when tomorrow fails to come
today is just not the same
inflamed earth. roses. in this i hope
for all i care set it all ablaze
may it pass away in the beautiful flames
that it was created for,
because when tomorrow fails to come
today is just not the same
inflamed earth. roses. in this i hope
for all i care set it all ablaze
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Did anyone say Revelation? All of creation graons for the end and apocolypse. Armageddon is at hand. Let it all pass away in the beautiful flames. Forever.
This sounds like he's just pissed off at the world. Not really that he hopes it all just dies, but just that within it there's so much that's sick and twisted and won't be sad when it all comes to an end
wow, i love the song, but ive completely given up hope of matching the song to these lyrics...i have absolutely no clue when he's saying at what time....that whole part toward the end where they just scream like one word or syllable at a time or 2, i love it but have no idea what theyre saying......long live norma jean
i don't think it has anything to do with being pissed at all... first of all, that would be very much un-like Josh and his style, and second of all "in this hope" is surely not a very pissed-off thing to say... you know?
Seems that he could care less about the end of the world because he believes that he will move on to a better place and he knows that it is supposed to happen.
it's not about being pissed off, it's about wanting to have nothing to do with the world and preparing for the end of days when Christ returns and destroys the current world we live in.
As christians we should set the world ablaze with the love of God!
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wheres the rest of the lyrics. what does he say during the AHHH AHHH AHHH dun dun dun dun part?