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"
Silver thread, from me to nowhere here
Life lived, life brought, fought, and fraught
The moment lost, cast adrift
Former troubles gone but somehow near
Soul, now bonded here, caught in loops so thoughtlessly
Things undone
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
Caught in loops
Determination setting in
Hate and spite and fear driving me
An ending for the end, there must be
Break my loop and peril the journey
The colors are muted and
Bleeding out
Quintessence lost in
Webs not seen but I see
I hear them,
I scream I'm not heard
Soul, now bonded here, caught in loops so thoughtlessly
Things undone
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
The weight of deeds, bind me here
Caught in loops so thoughtlessly
Things unsaid
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
Caught in loops
Faceless beasts, gaseous fumes I breath
Silk webs encoat my very being
I'm caught, I'm lost, I'm gone, I'm drowned
No. I cant. Not here. Not now
The colors are muted and
Bleeding out
Quintessence lost in
Webs not seen but I see
I hear them
I scream I'm not heard
A sign of truth, painful it may be
Inner demons turned outward against me
A simple truth, residing somewhere near
Dark paths their endings I fear
I carry on, I push myself through
The ending that I dread was the end that I knew
Unshrug my burden, fetters now shed
I've found my rest, I join the dead
The colors are muted and
Bleeding out
Quintessence lost in
Webs not seen but I see
I hear them
I scream I'm not heard
Soul, now bonded here, caught in loops so thoughtlessly
Things undone
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
Now I may rise, my conscience clear
Closure for those I hold dear
Things now done
I've broken free
Memories, releasing me
Break the loop
Life lived, life brought, fought, and fraught
The moment lost, cast adrift
Former troubles gone but somehow near
Soul, now bonded here, caught in loops so thoughtlessly
Things undone
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
Caught in loops
Determination setting in
Hate and spite and fear driving me
An ending for the end, there must be
Break my loop and peril the journey
The colors are muted and
Bleeding out
Quintessence lost in
Webs not seen but I see
I hear them,
I scream I'm not heard
Soul, now bonded here, caught in loops so thoughtlessly
Things undone
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
The weight of deeds, bind me here
Caught in loops so thoughtlessly
Things unsaid
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
Caught in loops
Faceless beasts, gaseous fumes I breath
Silk webs encoat my very being
I'm caught, I'm lost, I'm gone, I'm drowned
No. I cant. Not here. Not now
The colors are muted and
Bleeding out
Quintessence lost in
Webs not seen but I see
I hear them
I scream I'm not heard
A sign of truth, painful it may be
Inner demons turned outward against me
A simple truth, residing somewhere near
Dark paths their endings I fear
I carry on, I push myself through
The ending that I dread was the end that I knew
Unshrug my burden, fetters now shed
I've found my rest, I join the dead
The colors are muted and
Bleeding out
Quintessence lost in
Webs not seen but I see
I hear them
I scream I'm not heard
Soul, now bonded here, caught in loops so thoughtlessly
Things undone
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
Now I may rise, my conscience clear
Closure for those I hold dear
Things now done
I've broken free
Memories, releasing me
Break the loop
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
The Spaces Between Lyrics as written by Joe Marta
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
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