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"
Jekyll: Lost in the darkness. Silence Surrounds you. Once there was morning, now endless night. I will find the answer. I'll never desert you. I promise you this, till the day that I...
Hyde: Do you really think that I would ever let you go? Did you think I'd set you free? If you do I'm sad to say it simply isn't so. You will never get away from me!
Jekyll: All that you are is a face in the mirror. I close my eyes and you disapear.
Hyde: I'm what you face when you face in the mirror. Long as you live I will still be here.
Jekyll: All that you are is the end of a nightmare. All that you are is a dying scream. After tonight I shall end this demon's dream!
Hyde: This is not a dream my friend and it will never end! This one is the nightmare that goes on! Hyde is here to stay no matter what you may pretend. And he'll flourish not after your gone!
Jekyll: Soon you will die and my silence will hide you. You cannot choose but to lose control.
Hyde: You can't control me I live deep inside you. Each day you feel me devour your soul.
Jekyll: I don't need you to survive like you need me. I'll become whole as you dance with death. And I'll rejoice as you breathe your final breath!
Hyde: For I'll live inside yo for ever!
Jekyll: No!
Hyde: With Satan himself by my side!
Jekyll: No!
Hyde: And I know that now and forever they'll never be able to separate Jekyll from Hyde!
Jekyll: Can't you see it's over now? It's time to die!
Hyde: No not I only you!
Jekyll: If I die, you'll die too!
Hyde: You'll die in me I'll be you!
Jekyll: Damn you Hyde! Set me Free!
Hyde: Can't you see? You are me!
Jekyll: No! Deep inside...
Hyde: I am you! You are Hyde!
Jekyll: "No, Never!"
Hyde: "Yes Forever!"
Jekyll: "God damn you Hyde! Take all your evil deeds and rot in hell!"
Hyde: "I'll see you there Jekyll!"
Jekyll: Never!
Hyde: Do you really think that I would ever let you go? Did you think I'd set you free? If you do I'm sad to say it simply isn't so. You will never get away from me!
Jekyll: All that you are is a face in the mirror. I close my eyes and you disapear.
Hyde: I'm what you face when you face in the mirror. Long as you live I will still be here.
Jekyll: All that you are is the end of a nightmare. All that you are is a dying scream. After tonight I shall end this demon's dream!
Hyde: This is not a dream my friend and it will never end! This one is the nightmare that goes on! Hyde is here to stay no matter what you may pretend. And he'll flourish not after your gone!
Jekyll: Soon you will die and my silence will hide you. You cannot choose but to lose control.
Hyde: You can't control me I live deep inside you. Each day you feel me devour your soul.
Jekyll: I don't need you to survive like you need me. I'll become whole as you dance with death. And I'll rejoice as you breathe your final breath!
Hyde: For I'll live inside yo for ever!
Jekyll: No!
Hyde: With Satan himself by my side!
Jekyll: No!
Hyde: And I know that now and forever they'll never be able to separate Jekyll from Hyde!
Jekyll: Can't you see it's over now? It's time to die!
Hyde: No not I only you!
Jekyll: If I die, you'll die too!
Hyde: You'll die in me I'll be you!
Jekyll: Damn you Hyde! Set me Free!
Hyde: Can't you see? You are me!
Jekyll: No! Deep inside...
Hyde: I am you! You are Hyde!
Jekyll: "No, Never!"
Hyde: "Yes Forever!"
Jekyll: "God damn you Hyde! Take all your evil deeds and rot in hell!"
Hyde: "I'll see you there Jekyll!"
Jekyll: Never!
Lyrics submitted by Avenger101
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I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!!!!