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"
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what are the sound clips used at the beginning and end of the song from?
To answer your question about the sound clips the 1st the begining the evil demonic hellish sounds are from Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead" (side note: appears in the film "Donnie Darko" [the moviethearter scene] and "A nightmare on elm street" on the TV) 2nd: the voice that says "liberate tute me ex inferis" is from "Event Horizon" (Laurance Fishburne, Sam Neil) 3rd at the end of the track: the vocie thats says something like "...the darkness from the other place it shows you things I WON'T GO BACK THERE I won't" is also from "Event Horizon"<br /> Which if you have not see either of these films I would recomend you to watch them "evil dead" is a cult classic horror film and "event horizon" is the scariest movie I have ever seen but you must watch them in the dark by yourself
This is a great instrumental. I'm one of those people wh isn't much of a "Christian" music fan, I usually find it way too preachy (I'm Christian already, you don't have to convince me) but this is a great band. As for the sound clips, they're from the movie "Event Horizon". So is the title of this album.
This song is great. The drums are what make it perfect. Well done.
i work at my church doing lights and sound and stuff for junior high and i played this song during the fellowship time where we are get donuts and talk, i had this song playing really slow in the background and one of the leaders came up to me saying tht was the most depressing song he heard. i find that hilarious
The first time i heard this song I was in awe. There's so much more to it than appears. Here's my take on it, Jack Wilson, for those of you who are up to date on Native American history, was a Pauite prophet. He created the Ghost Dance religion in the late 19th century right around the time the real "cowboys and injuns" was going down. After reaching diestic acclaim among fellow natives and commanding fear from the white folks, he dropped into obscurity. I personally think that this song is Jack Wilson's (aka Wovoka) descent into a hellish madness. If you'll notice, the only consistent part of the entire song is the guitar. It's there in the beginning and can faintly be heard to the end. This represents sanity. The ominously growing drums represent madness. This madness eventually consumes and the drums seem chaotic and out of sync. I get this great mental image of Jack Wilson, enthralled with fantastic and lucid visions, at the center of a circle of dancing indians (or demons?). I doubt this is what Zao had in mind, but hey it fits right?
The best part of this song is the beginning. It starts by playing the audio to the video clip that you see on the movie Event Horizon. You see people being chopped in pieces and being horribly mutilated by themselves. The captain of the ship is holding his eyes in his hands and says the words "Liberate te ex infirnis." You can hear these words in the song track too. It is an awesome song, but it is not as good as the intro piece in my opinion. As for the title, I don't think they are even people we know. The piece just before this one is on Kathleen Barbra who doesn't seem to have a record at all. Both are placed in Circle V though, which is the wrathful. Curious.