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"
The night skys black and I'm awake lying on the ground
The grass beneath my feet is hard and cold just like I've come to be
The stars are gone behind the clouds and I can't see a thing
So I'll just let my eyes stay closed just like me, I can't open up
Cause I'm all wrong and I don't see a chance to fix this head
So just give up. Write me off, pretend I don't exist
There's something in an empty bed that makes it hard to close your eyes
It can eat at you until they both turn black and blue
And all you want is a reason you should live
Or a way for you to die, a way for you to die
Cause I'm all wrong and I don't see a chance to fix this head
So just give up. Write me off, pretend I don't exist
The grounds opening up. I'm falling down below
An endless fall into a place that I don't think a child should know
And I'm screaming out a name that could never pass my lips
The poison in my veins that got me through her kiss
Cause I'm all wrong and I don't see a chance to fix this head
So just give up. Write me off, pretend I don't exist
The grounds opening up. I'm falling down below
An endless fall into a place that I don't think a child should know
And I'm screaming out a name that could never pass my lips
The poison in my veins that got me through her kiss
And now I'm too hung up on that to have anything with you,
It's the poison in my veins,
The poison in my veins
The poison in my veins that got me through
The grass beneath my feet is hard and cold just like I've come to be
The stars are gone behind the clouds and I can't see a thing
So I'll just let my eyes stay closed just like me, I can't open up
Cause I'm all wrong and I don't see a chance to fix this head
So just give up. Write me off, pretend I don't exist
There's something in an empty bed that makes it hard to close your eyes
It can eat at you until they both turn black and blue
And all you want is a reason you should live
Or a way for you to die, a way for you to die
Cause I'm all wrong and I don't see a chance to fix this head
So just give up. Write me off, pretend I don't exist
The grounds opening up. I'm falling down below
An endless fall into a place that I don't think a child should know
And I'm screaming out a name that could never pass my lips
The poison in my veins that got me through her kiss
Cause I'm all wrong and I don't see a chance to fix this head
So just give up. Write me off, pretend I don't exist
The grounds opening up. I'm falling down below
An endless fall into a place that I don't think a child should know
And I'm screaming out a name that could never pass my lips
The poison in my veins that got me through her kiss
And now I'm too hung up on that to have anything with you,
It's the poison in my veins,
The poison in my veins
The poison in my veins that got me through
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x, edited by bayside311
Poison in My Veins Lyrics as written by Anthony S Raneri Andrew Robert Elderbaum
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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