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"
My words feel so empty
My lips speak in vain
Your face tells a story
Of wounds that still remain
Stay true to my heart
Cast failures to the wind
I hate the way it feels
To know I slipped again
Tomorrow holds another chance
Not just to smile but make it real
For what it's worth I won't give up
For what's it's worth I won't give up
I won't walk away
For what it's worth I won't give up [Repeat x3]
My lips speak in vain
Your face tells a story
Of wounds that still remain
Stay true to my heart
Cast failures to the wind
I hate the way it feels
To know I slipped again
Tomorrow holds another chance
Not just to smile but make it real
For what it's worth I won't give up
For what's it's worth I won't give up
I won't walk away
For what it's worth I won't give up [Repeat x3]
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I love this band because it brings everyone together. Just like Mog i can relate way better than i would like to and in my specific instance. "My words feel so empty my lips speak in vain" When you are trying to fix something and you try and try and keep saying you wont do it again but you keep making the same mistake.
"Your face tells a story of wounds that still remain" I dont know if this is what they meant but that face they see could also be your own reflection and you see and feel those wounds that youve created
I would screw up pretty bad and then i would repent of it and than a month later i would make that same mistake so the line " I hate the way it feels to know ive slipped again" cuts me really deeply and i feel for it very much. I have been doing much better and havent made that same mistake for all of those people who would call me a hypocrite and such.
There are people out there that say that if you screw up in the process of fixing things that it makes you a hypocrite and your just spitting in the face of God but i strongly believe that if you feel true remorse for it that it isnt. The term relapse comes to mind. So if any of you feel like you keep screwing up and that because you cant seem to let go of that sin that you arent worthy and that you should just give up that there is hope. there are people out there who have done the same things and are living better now and are happy. There is always someone willing to listen even if you feel like you dont want to tell that person. just know that God still loves you and through Christs Atoning Sacrafice that your wounds can be healed and your Sins forgiven. I believe that if you just dont give up and keep trying and keep trying that you will make it. i feel like there is another reason that it repeats "And for what its worth i wont give up, I wont walk away" He may be saying that to other people but he may be saying that for himself to remind himself about how good things can still be even though he is in a dark place.
Almost everyone on here has felt strongly for this song and if anybody reads this and doesnt feel like they are worth it and they are below the atonement that that is what the adversary wants you to think so keep your head held high towards the heaven and remember that you are a child of God