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 stench of the hopeless and wounded
The cries that escape from the depths of regret
A bleeding, mass in procession
That fell on the path from which it strayed
A whisper in total darkness
To die at the hands of what we are
A breath escapes from the lifeless
The blind and the feeble of our decay
This is the pain we must suffer..
This is the endless agony..
This is the darkest of secrets..
We give our lives to keep
The light that's surrounding
I am all that you've made me
Their endless desire
Feeds the fire inside me
And all I can ask for
Take this life that you gave me
I'm not your messiah..
The fear that grows like a cancer
Held like a breath and sacrificed
The blood that flows from the wounded
Consumed by the masses who've longed to taste
This is a prayer for the hopeless..
This is an endless tragedy..
This is the darkest of secrets..
We give ourselves to keep
The light that's surrounding
I am all that you've made me
Their endless desire
Feeds the fire inside me
And all I can ask for
Take this life that you gave me
I'm not your messiah..
I pray for redemption
These unanswered cries
In darkness it came to me,
And I breathe
The distant voices sing to me
And everything changes suddenly
And i..
The light that's surrounding
I am all that you've made me
Their endless desire
Feeds the fire inside me
And all I can ask for
Take this life that you gave me
I'm not your messiah..
The life that's surrounding
I am all that you've made me
Their endless desire
Feeds the fire inside me
And I didn't ask for
Take this life that you gave me
I'm not your messiah..
The cries that escape from the depths of regret
A bleeding, mass in procession
That fell on the path from which it strayed
A whisper in total darkness
To die at the hands of what we are
A breath escapes from the lifeless
The blind and the feeble of our decay
This is the pain we must suffer..
This is the endless agony..
This is the darkest of secrets..
We give our lives to keep
The light that's surrounding
I am all that you've made me
Their endless desire
Feeds the fire inside me
And all I can ask for
Take this life that you gave me
I'm not your messiah..
The fear that grows like a cancer
Held like a breath and sacrificed
The blood that flows from the wounded
Consumed by the masses who've longed to taste
This is a prayer for the hopeless..
This is an endless tragedy..
This is the darkest of secrets..
We give ourselves to keep
The light that's surrounding
I am all that you've made me
Their endless desire
Feeds the fire inside me
And all I can ask for
Take this life that you gave me
I'm not your messiah..
I pray for redemption
These unanswered cries
In darkness it came to me,
And I breathe
The distant voices sing to me
And everything changes suddenly
And i..
The light that's surrounding
I am all that you've made me
Their endless desire
Feeds the fire inside me
And all I can ask for
Take this life that you gave me
I'm not your messiah..
The life that's surrounding
I am all that you've made me
Their endless desire
Feeds the fire inside me
And I didn't ask for
Take this life that you gave me
I'm not your messiah..
Lyrics submitted by having_a_blast2
Procession Lyrics as written by Christopher Micheal Emmons Michael Jason Williams
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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No one's commented on this yet? Damn...well, at one point it sounds like he may be talking to God "I pray for redemption, these unanswered cries" but other than that it soudns kinda like redemption and judgement in general. I may be wrong but that's what I think...
Its about someone thats been mentally corrupted by todays complex system. They see the world as an ugly place and want nothing more but to be in a place thats not.
it sounds like in the chorus he's crying out to God... "I AM ALL THAT YOU'VE MADE ME" and "TAKE THIS LIFE THAT YOU GAVE ME "... it sounds like he's surrendering. Also "I pray for redemption" and "the distant voices sing to me and everything changes suddenly " the first verse is probably about how he's been following the masses in sin and he doesn't want to anymore, he wants to follow God. This song was written when they were still a Christian band...