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"
Their lives are just a pointless pursuit
Just the same empty dead and dull route
They just sit their in a careless shell
Lying to themselves that their life is swell
Trying so hard not to think about a thing
So they can never care about another being
And focus on their money and their possessions
Wasting their lives in greedy obsessions
Chorus- I know! You know! They know! We all know!
Its shit, but they just dont want to admit to it
Living their entire lives as complete phonies
Burying themselves in fashion and TV
They sit there feeling so comfortable
Ignoring all issues to keep their lives stable
Making them selfish and hateful people
While pushing us down high atop their steeples
Because they don't want their lives exposed
They wanna keep themselves hidden and closed
Chorus
Its so easy for them to go with the current
Going with the system to stay content
Never take a stand never contradict
Giving up their lives to avoid any conflict
They hoist themselves over the lower class
Stepping on their backs so they can surpass
Getting their filthy part of the capitalist pie
While others can do nothing but fade and die
Chorus
Bridge- But we're not fallin for it
We wont live in their shit
Cuz we have something to do
Secure freedom for me and you
Take what is owed to us
Get something out of this mess
Because we actually care
We wont sit in despair
We are going to fight
Well use all of our might
And when everything is done
Well be the ones who really won!
Just the same empty dead and dull route
They just sit their in a careless shell
Lying to themselves that their life is swell
Trying so hard not to think about a thing
So they can never care about another being
And focus on their money and their possessions
Wasting their lives in greedy obsessions
Chorus- I know! You know! They know! We all know!
Its shit, but they just dont want to admit to it
Living their entire lives as complete phonies
Burying themselves in fashion and TV
They sit there feeling so comfortable
Ignoring all issues to keep their lives stable
Making them selfish and hateful people
While pushing us down high atop their steeples
Because they don't want their lives exposed
They wanna keep themselves hidden and closed
Chorus
Its so easy for them to go with the current
Going with the system to stay content
Never take a stand never contradict
Giving up their lives to avoid any conflict
They hoist themselves over the lower class
Stepping on their backs so they can surpass
Getting their filthy part of the capitalist pie
While others can do nothing but fade and die
Chorus
Bridge- But we're not fallin for it
We wont live in their shit
Cuz we have something to do
Secure freedom for me and you
Take what is owed to us
Get something out of this mess
Because we actually care
We wont sit in despair
We are going to fight
Well use all of our might
And when everything is done
Well be the ones who really won!
Lyrics submitted by x.dave.x
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