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"
This is the emo chord
that we ran towards
it's burning up my heart
well things just fall apart
carry the burden wrong
whilst I sing this song
to try to make amends
the things that we pretend
to do
lost you
and hide away for now
then see it's gone
cut the verses from my mind
'cause they all seem unkind
it bounced against the floor
and my life's over
and I thought things were going well
no you can't go to hell
it's another song for you
to show you what to do
and try to help me through
through all the curses, all the blame, can anything become the same again?
I've lost a friend
I've lost a friend
this is the emo pain
coming round again
to stab me in the skin
but nothing's coming in
it's in, your in.
and it bleeds, it bleeds
and I wake, I wake,
break
it's a verse inside my mind
and yet it seems unkind
it bounced against the floor
and my life's over
and I thought things were going well
no you can't go to hell
it's another song for you
to show you what to do
and try to help me through
through all the curses, all the blame, can anything become the same again?
I've lost a friend
all the love we shared
it's like you never cared
it's gone away
you're never coming back
so don't believe me when I said
that I was coming back
I've let you down
below the ground
with my melody
with my melody
with my melody
that we ran towards
it's burning up my heart
well things just fall apart
carry the burden wrong
whilst I sing this song
to try to make amends
the things that we pretend
to do
lost you
and hide away for now
then see it's gone
cut the verses from my mind
'cause they all seem unkind
it bounced against the floor
and my life's over
and I thought things were going well
no you can't go to hell
it's another song for you
to show you what to do
and try to help me through
through all the curses, all the blame, can anything become the same again?
I've lost a friend
I've lost a friend
this is the emo pain
coming round again
to stab me in the skin
but nothing's coming in
it's in, your in.
and it bleeds, it bleeds
and I wake, I wake,
break
it's a verse inside my mind
and yet it seems unkind
it bounced against the floor
and my life's over
and I thought things were going well
no you can't go to hell
it's another song for you
to show you what to do
and try to help me through
through all the curses, all the blame, can anything become the same again?
I've lost a friend
all the love we shared
it's like you never cared
it's gone away
you're never coming back
so don't believe me when I said
that I was coming back
I've let you down
below the ground
with my melody
with my melody
with my melody
Lyrics submitted by Hobbelf
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