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"
Greed has caused you to become a monster
Greed has caused you to become so cold
You said you loved him, then you put him away
"Till death do us part" means nothing to you
Greed has caused you to betray your family
Greed has caused you to become so jaded
We've got some news for you, every dollar you save
Will cushion your pillow in hell
You act like we're blind, deaf and dumb
Betrayal has now left us numb
We're sorry we can't escape from
This choice now we all must succumb
He's been thrown away, left for dead
This is the only father we've had
Thrown away, left for dead
How could you choose money instead
Greed has caused you to become a monster
Greed has caused you to become so cold
We've got some news for you, every dollar you save
Will cushion your pillow in hell
You act like we're blind, deaf and dumb
Betrayal has now left us numb
We're sorry we can't escape from
This choice now we all must succumb
He's been thrown away, left for dead
This is the only father we've had
Thrown away, left for dead
How could you choose money instead
We will never forget that you're the reason
This sadness has overwhelmed us
This grief is too much to bear
How can we look you in the eyes
How could you ruin his life
After all the years of of joy he brought us
There is no 'we' anymore
There is no 'us' anymore
You will have to live your last days in infamy
How could you do this
How could you choose to have him
Thrown away, left for dead
This is the only father we've had
Thrown away, left for dead
How could you choose money instead
Greed has caused you to become so cold
You said you loved him, then you put him away
"Till death do us part" means nothing to you
Greed has caused you to betray your family
Greed has caused you to become so jaded
We've got some news for you, every dollar you save
Will cushion your pillow in hell
You act like we're blind, deaf and dumb
Betrayal has now left us numb
We're sorry we can't escape from
This choice now we all must succumb
He's been thrown away, left for dead
This is the only father we've had
Thrown away, left for dead
How could you choose money instead
Greed has caused you to become a monster
Greed has caused you to become so cold
We've got some news for you, every dollar you save
Will cushion your pillow in hell
You act like we're blind, deaf and dumb
Betrayal has now left us numb
We're sorry we can't escape from
This choice now we all must succumb
He's been thrown away, left for dead
This is the only father we've had
Thrown away, left for dead
How could you choose money instead
We will never forget that you're the reason
This sadness has overwhelmed us
This grief is too much to bear
How can we look you in the eyes
How could you ruin his life
After all the years of of joy he brought us
There is no 'we' anymore
There is no 'us' anymore
You will have to live your last days in infamy
How could you do this
How could you choose to have him
Thrown away, left for dead
This is the only father we've had
Thrown away, left for dead
How could you choose money instead
Lyrics submitted by thienosaurus
Left for Dead Lyrics as written by Jim Lamarca Chris Spicuzza
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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