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 can scratch the surface and find out where you hide,
I can find a reason for all those holes inside.
Covered in oppression - For all your wasted time,
To wallow in depression - Just what you've left behind...
Be..hind...
(Chorus)
I'm deaf, I've circled far God,
That I can't hear you no more
I'm deaf, I've circled far God,
I can't take no more,
I'll die
I'll die
Even though I hate you - I still love you anyway,
I cannot forsake you and I can't run away.
Now I try to stand up - Only to fall down,
Fall down (Oh God)
And now I try to shake you - But I just can't get you out...
You...Out...
(Chorus)
I'm deaf, I've circled far, God,
That I can't hear you no more
I'm deaf, I've circled far, God,
I can't take no more
I'll die
I'll die
I'm dying,
Someone fix me...
Yeah fix me (Come on),
Fix me
Shut up and take the pain that I'm giving you,
With you I feel like I can't go on.
I need you to breathe and I'm dying so please,
Won't you save me before I'm...gone?
Shut up and take the pain that I'm giving you,
With you I feel like I can't go on.
I can't escape this hell I create,
Why can't you look at my face?
I feel so ashamed
I'm falling far a....way...
Shut up and take the pain that I'm giving you,
Ripping you up until you are raped (x3)
Shut up and take the pain that I'm giving you,
Ripping you up...
(Chorus)
I'm deaf, I've circled far, God
That I can't hear you no more
I'm deaf, I've circled far, God
I got no...
I got no, no pride...
I can't take no more - No pride
I can't take no more - No pride
I can't take - No more pride
I got no - I got no
No pride - No pride
No pride - No pride
I can find a reason for all those holes inside.
Covered in oppression - For all your wasted time,
To wallow in depression - Just what you've left behind...
Be..hind...
(Chorus)
I'm deaf, I've circled far God,
That I can't hear you no more
I'm deaf, I've circled far God,
I can't take no more,
I'll die
I'll die
Even though I hate you - I still love you anyway,
I cannot forsake you and I can't run away.
Now I try to stand up - Only to fall down,
Fall down (Oh God)
And now I try to shake you - But I just can't get you out...
You...Out...
(Chorus)
I'm deaf, I've circled far, God,
That I can't hear you no more
I'm deaf, I've circled far, God,
I can't take no more
I'll die
I'll die
I'm dying,
Someone fix me...
Yeah fix me (Come on),
Fix me
Shut up and take the pain that I'm giving you,
With you I feel like I can't go on.
I need you to breathe and I'm dying so please,
Won't you save me before I'm...gone?
Shut up and take the pain that I'm giving you,
With you I feel like I can't go on.
I can't escape this hell I create,
Why can't you look at my face?
I feel so ashamed
I'm falling far a....way...
Shut up and take the pain that I'm giving you,
Ripping you up until you are raped (x3)
Shut up and take the pain that I'm giving you,
Ripping you up...
(Chorus)
I'm deaf, I've circled far, God
That I can't hear you no more
I'm deaf, I've circled far, God
I got no...
I got no, no pride...
I can't take no more - No pride
I can't take no more - No pride
I can't take - No more pride
I got no - I got no
No pride - No pride
No pride - No pride
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first person---speaking as judith? or the other man who betrayed jesus. including a conversation between the two. keep in mind 40's a christian band =p
1.Shut up and take the pain that I�m giving you With you I feel I can�t go on 2.I need you to breathe And I�m dying So please won�t you save me before I�m gone 1.Shut up and take the pain that I�m giving you With you I feel I can�t go on
but i think those lyrics are wrongggg. i'll get back to ya.
These lyrics are WRONG!!!!
chorus.- why god, I'm just a fuck up and I can't handle no more. why god, I 'm just a, fuck up I can't take no more. I'll die