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"
"Elisabetha, Elisabetha
This is the tale of the Blood Countess of Transylvania
15 years old she realized her true ambitions, inflicting pain
Soon carnal desires called for their fulfillment
Black magic was the key
After becoming romantically involved with a black-clad stranger
Her mouth showed telltale signs of blood for the first time."
Come to me my sweet young gal
I need your service for my joy
Follow me to your little hell
Nothing to scare or annoy
Come through this gate
See my toys they are your fate
Welcome to my torture chamber
This will be your dismember
I'll take the liquid out of you
Your virgin blood will be mine
Black Magic is what I master
My Darkness is that what will shine
My beauty will stop to face
For my ointment you are the source
The shriveled skin will disappear
My beauty returns with my force
"Elisabetha, you are the countries course
Your cruelty is divine of calls upon the gods
My curse is that I can't kill you
You will be prisoned for eternity."
You trapped me in this rotting cage
My blood burns for revenge
I'll bring your pain to another stage
I'll raise myself to your bench
You won't flee my magic grip
Your heart will be what I rip
I'll grab your spirit out of you
Annihilation that's what I'll do
I'll take the liquid out of you
Your virgin blood will be mine
Black Magic is what I master
My Darkness is that what will shine
My beauty will stop to face
For my ointment you are the source
The shriveled skin will disappear
My beauty returns with my force
This is the tale of the Blood Countess of Transylvania
15 years old she realized her true ambitions, inflicting pain
Soon carnal desires called for their fulfillment
Black magic was the key
After becoming romantically involved with a black-clad stranger
Her mouth showed telltale signs of blood for the first time."
Come to me my sweet young gal
I need your service for my joy
Follow me to your little hell
Nothing to scare or annoy
Come through this gate
See my toys they are your fate
Welcome to my torture chamber
This will be your dismember
I'll take the liquid out of you
Your virgin blood will be mine
Black Magic is what I master
My Darkness is that what will shine
My beauty will stop to face
For my ointment you are the source
The shriveled skin will disappear
My beauty returns with my force
"Elisabetha, you are the countries course
Your cruelty is divine of calls upon the gods
My curse is that I can't kill you
You will be prisoned for eternity."
You trapped me in this rotting cage
My blood burns for revenge
I'll bring your pain to another stage
I'll raise myself to your bench
You won't flee my magic grip
Your heart will be what I rip
I'll grab your spirit out of you
Annihilation that's what I'll do
I'll take the liquid out of you
Your virgin blood will be mine
Black Magic is what I master
My Darkness is that what will shine
My beauty will stop to face
For my ointment you are the source
The shriveled skin will disappear
My beauty returns with my force
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