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"
awaken by the terror of a thousand wars
a vision of the coming invading force
with haste he goes to the royal hall
the soothsayer alerts the king, the hour is nigh
the kings scoffs, says no, he does not believe
you must be in error, you must be deceived
my lord, they're coming, your people aren't safe
upon deaf ears fall words of fate
I hold the key to what lies beyond
you wont believe what this crystal orb does show
and in his dreams he saw
brick by brick...behold
stone by stone...our fate
wall by wall
this castle is set to burn
when the soothsayers riddles is spoken, beware of the answers it holds
i hold the key to what lies beyond
when the soothsayers words make you question, the price will be paid in blood
you wont believe what this crystal orb does show
with no more then a reason to kill
the enemy's approaching from surrounding sides
awaiting for the first strike as catapults are drawn
flaming arrows from the sky, the massacre begins
order turns to chaos, no hope to win
the tyrant is here to take up your throne
he'll take off your head before taking your crown
the mystic, he laughs, you should have listened to me
but now you beg for your life on your knees
on your knees
on your knees
when the soothsayers riddle is spoken, it could hold the outcome of war
I hold the key to what lies beyond
when the soothsayers words speak of bloodshed, just pray that the blood is not yours
you wont believe
the price paid in blood
the price paid in blood
just pray that the blood is not yours
a vision of the coming invading force
with haste he goes to the royal hall
the soothsayer alerts the king, the hour is nigh
the kings scoffs, says no, he does not believe
you must be in error, you must be deceived
my lord, they're coming, your people aren't safe
upon deaf ears fall words of fate
I hold the key to what lies beyond
you wont believe what this crystal orb does show
and in his dreams he saw
brick by brick...behold
stone by stone...our fate
wall by wall
this castle is set to burn
when the soothsayers riddles is spoken, beware of the answers it holds
i hold the key to what lies beyond
when the soothsayers words make you question, the price will be paid in blood
you wont believe what this crystal orb does show
with no more then a reason to kill
the enemy's approaching from surrounding sides
awaiting for the first strike as catapults are drawn
flaming arrows from the sky, the massacre begins
order turns to chaos, no hope to win
the tyrant is here to take up your throne
he'll take off your head before taking your crown
the mystic, he laughs, you should have listened to me
but now you beg for your life on your knees
on your knees
on your knees
when the soothsayers riddle is spoken, it could hold the outcome of war
I hold the key to what lies beyond
when the soothsayers words speak of bloodshed, just pray that the blood is not yours
you wont believe
the price paid in blood
the price paid in blood
just pray that the blood is not yours
Lyrics submitted by rustedhope
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