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 ocean is on fire, the sky turned dark again as the boats came in
And the beaches, stretched out with soldiers
With their arms and guns it has just begun
Believe
You want this
Believe
I want this too
Why won't you tell me that
It's almost over
Why must this tear my head
Inside out
And the houses laid out like targets
With the deafening sound
We watched them all go down
And the families now useless bodies
They lay still black and blue
A gift from us to you
Believe
You want this
Believe
I want this too
Why won't you tell me that
It's almost over
Why must this tear my head
Inside out
Believe
Believe
You want this too
Why won't you tell me that
It's almost over
Why must this tear my head
Inside out
Why won't you tell me that
It's almost over
Why must this tear my head
Inside out
And the beaches, stretched out with soldiers
With their arms and guns it has just begun
Believe
You want this
Believe
I want this too
Why won't you tell me that
It's almost over
Why must this tear my head
Inside out
And the houses laid out like targets
With the deafening sound
We watched them all go down
And the families now useless bodies
They lay still black and blue
A gift from us to you
Believe
You want this
Believe
I want this too
Why won't you tell me that
It's almost over
Why must this tear my head
Inside out
Believe
Believe
You want this too
Why won't you tell me that
It's almost over
Why must this tear my head
Inside out
Why won't you tell me that
It's almost over
Why must this tear my head
Inside out
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i kinda hate that this song is used as the theme for Two-a-Days. i mean, c'mon, this song is way deeper then a highschool football team it saddened me to hear it being spoonfed to all the mainstream kids who won't appriciate it for what it really is. still a prety kick-a song though.
its definatley about D-Day in world war II Tom even said that the movie was going to be based on World War II
its definately abput D-Day, but when i first really thought about it i thought it was about Dunkirk "The ocean is on fire, the sky turned dark again as the boats came in. And the beaches, streched out with soldiers" the soldiers waiting to get picked up by bopats but the next line ruined that theory in a way as the next line says its just begun, they just got off the boats
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very emotionally song.. great, the best on the cd so far (havnt heard it all)
Only criticism of this song: the chorus is too high, so i cant sing along to it! damn! fantastic song though, meaning is pretty self apparent.
hell yeah. head bang to this, i love it.
this is definitely my favorite song on the album. it's like a good heart-breaking song lol.
tom did an amazing job with AvA. I hope they make another awesome album.
I was in a chatroom interview with Tom, someone asked about "The War" and he responded:
"The war represented a conflict in every person's life and the idea of having faith and the ability to overcome anything if you have faith and believe in it."
Amazing.
I'm really trying but I just don't get it, I'm usually able to see the meanings behind songs but I just can't with this one. I'm a big fan of AvA I think it's a great band and a lot better than Blink. Anyway I just can't see the ant-war meaning behind it, I'm trying but I can't, with the lines, "Believe, That you want this, Believe, That I want this too" makes it seem like they want war, I know it sounds crazy but I'm having trouble reading into the song can anyone help me out?