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"
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before, couldn't say I liked it
Do I start writing all this down?
Just let me plug you into my world
Can't you help me be uncrazy?
Name this for me, heat the cold air
Take the chill off of my life
And if I could, I'd turn my eyes
To look inside to see what's comin'
It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive and I die a little more
It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive, each moment here, I die a little more
Ooh, I die, I die, I die a little more
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
I'm frantic in your soothing arms
I can not sleep in this down filled world
Found safety in this loneliness
But I can not stand it anymore
Cross my heart, hope not to die
Swallow evil, ride the sky
Lose myself in a crowded room
You fool, you fool, it'll be here soon
It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive and I die a little more
It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive, each moment here, I die a little more
Ooh, I die, I die, I die a little more
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
Treats me this way
And I wait for this train
Toes over the line
And then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
It takes me
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive, yeah, yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
Yeah, it takes me away
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive, yeah, yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
Yeah, it takes me away
Get the fuck out of here
I just want to get the fuck away from me
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate
I hate it all, why? Why? Why me?
I cannot sleep with a head like this
I want to cry, I want to scream
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate
I want to hate it all away
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive, yeah, yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
Treats me this away
Then I wait for this train
My toes are over the line, yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away, yeah, it takes me away
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before, couldn't say I liked it
Do I start writing all this down?
Just let me plug you into my world
Can't you help me be uncrazy?
Name this for me, heat the cold air
Take the chill off of my life
And if I could, I'd turn my eyes
To look inside to see what's comin'
It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive and I die a little more
It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive, each moment here, I die a little more
Ooh, I die, I die, I die a little more
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
Been here before
I'm frantic in your soothing arms
I can not sleep in this down filled world
Found safety in this loneliness
But I can not stand it anymore
Cross my heart, hope not to die
Swallow evil, ride the sky
Lose myself in a crowded room
You fool, you fool, it'll be here soon
It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive and I die a little more
It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive, each moment here, I die a little more
Ooh, I die, I die, I die a little more
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
Treats me this way
And I wait for this train
Toes over the line
And then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
It takes me
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive, yeah, yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
Yeah, it takes me away
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive, yeah, yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
Yeah, it takes me away
Get the fuck out of here
I just want to get the fuck away from me
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate
I hate it all, why? Why? Why me?
I cannot sleep with a head like this
I want to cry, I want to scream
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate
I want to hate it all away
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive, yeah, yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
Treats me this away
Then I wait for this train
My toes are over the line, yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away, yeah, it takes me away
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
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For me this happens whenever I can't escape anything and I can't fight back or anything. Not being able to do anything eats me up and makes me die inside. It's so often nowadays, too. I get this feeling a lot. It's beyond even anger and hate. It's beyond that.
@EnterOrion update?