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"
Its another November evening
As you remember your way home
You (beat?) out your aggressive tendencies
On what's left of your blackend soul.
You've come to this conclusion
As your dragged from another bloody fight
You've reached the edge where you decided
That you've lived out your whole life.
Another busted knuckle,
taken down by a kick to the balls
You've wasted time, wasted time
As our shadows grown so tall
Its another busted knuckle
Its a fight you'll never win
And now you bow your head in shame
For a sin no one forgives
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
Tonight ill start again
(This is our time)
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
How will I make amends
(This is our time)
This is our life
This is our time
This is my life
Don't waste my time.
Your wife can't understand you
When you have alienated your oldest friends
Breaking back, and fingers to the bone
burning candles at your backdoor your
Tired of this petty life you lead
A series of dull events
A two bit half assed attempt
Of someone else's (trend?)
Another busted knuckle,
taken down by a kick to the balls
You've wasted time, wasted time
As our shadows grown so tall
Its another busted knuckle
Its a fight you'll never win
And now you bow your head in shame
For a sin no one forgives
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
Tonight ill start again
(This is our time)
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
How will I make amends
(This is our time)
This is our life
This is our time
This is my life
Don't waste my time.
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
Tonight ill start again
(This is our time)
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
How will I make amends
(This is our time)
This is our life
This is our time
This is my life
Don't waste my time.
As you remember your way home
You (beat?) out your aggressive tendencies
On what's left of your blackend soul.
You've come to this conclusion
As your dragged from another bloody fight
You've reached the edge where you decided
That you've lived out your whole life.
Another busted knuckle,
taken down by a kick to the balls
You've wasted time, wasted time
As our shadows grown so tall
Its another busted knuckle
Its a fight you'll never win
And now you bow your head in shame
For a sin no one forgives
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
Tonight ill start again
(This is our time)
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
How will I make amends
(This is our time)
This is our life
This is our time
This is my life
Don't waste my time.
Your wife can't understand you
When you have alienated your oldest friends
Breaking back, and fingers to the bone
burning candles at your backdoor your
Tired of this petty life you lead
A series of dull events
A two bit half assed attempt
Of someone else's (trend?)
Another busted knuckle,
taken down by a kick to the balls
You've wasted time, wasted time
As our shadows grown so tall
Its another busted knuckle
Its a fight you'll never win
And now you bow your head in shame
For a sin no one forgives
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
Tonight ill start again
(This is our time)
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
How will I make amends
(This is our time)
This is our life
This is our time
This is my life
Don't waste my time.
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
Tonight ill start again
(This is our time)
Fight fight you'll never win
(This is our life)
How will I make amends
(This is our time)
This is our life
This is our time
This is my life
Don't waste my time.
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the two words you wern't sure on
taken from the official site
and the meaning off there
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