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"
If it can be broke then it can be fixed
It if can be fused then it can be split
It's all under control (x4)
If it can be lost then it can be won
If it can be touched then it can be turned
All you need is time (x4)
All you need is
If it can be broke then it can be fixed
It if can be fused then it can be split
It's all under control (x4)
If it can be lost then it can be won
If it can be touched then it can be turned
All you need is time (x4)
All you need is
We promised the world we'd tame it,
What were we hoping for? (x2)
A sense of purpose and a sense of skill
A sense of function but a disregard
We will not be the first (x4)
You said you were gonna conquer new frontiers
Go stick your bloody neck in the jaws of the beast
We promised the world we'd tame it,
What were we hoping for?
We promised the world we'd tame it
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe out, breathe in
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe out, breathe in
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe out, breathe in
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in
So here we are reinventing the wheel
I'm shaking hands with a hurricane
It's a colour that I can't describe
It's a language I can't understand
Ambition, tearing out the heart of you
Carving lines into you
Dripping down the sides of you
We will not be the last. (x7)
It if can be fused then it can be split
It's all under control (x4)
If it can be lost then it can be won
If it can be touched then it can be turned
All you need is time (x4)
All you need is
If it can be broke then it can be fixed
It if can be fused then it can be split
It's all under control (x4)
If it can be lost then it can be won
If it can be touched then it can be turned
All you need is time (x4)
All you need is
We promised the world we'd tame it,
What were we hoping for? (x2)
A sense of purpose and a sense of skill
A sense of function but a disregard
We will not be the first (x4)
You said you were gonna conquer new frontiers
Go stick your bloody neck in the jaws of the beast
We promised the world we'd tame it,
What were we hoping for?
We promised the world we'd tame it
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe out, breathe in
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe out, breathe in
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe out, breathe in
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in
So here we are reinventing the wheel
I'm shaking hands with a hurricane
It's a colour that I can't describe
It's a language I can't understand
Ambition, tearing out the heart of you
Carving lines into you
Dripping down the sides of you
We will not be the last. (x7)
Lyrics submitted by off_by-heart
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