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"
From the pages to your head you give up
on trying to make things make sense
We've been losing for quite some time now
playing the victim card
The temptations, the sin, if we lay down, they will win
We are all that stands
It may look like blind hate from the enemies of the state
playing the victim card
So bind your sisters' hands for we will be away
for quite some time
across the desert sands and all across the land
playing the victim card
on trying to make things make sense
We've been losing for quite some time now
playing the victim card
The temptations, the sin, if we lay down, they will win
We are all that stands
It may look like blind hate from the enemies of the state
playing the victim card
So bind your sisters' hands for we will be away
for quite some time
across the desert sands and all across the land
playing the victim card
Lyrics submitted by McWatt
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What a heartbreaking melody. So many lives fall into the pattern of placing the blame somwhere else, content to fall into depression, as the victim of some injustice (e.g. my parents don't support me, too much is expected of me, my job sucks, etc.)
this song has a wicked, raw guitar...yikes...talk about peeling away the flesh...
Its about standing up for what you believe in, what most of us should believe in, and if we don't they will win, and we will be walking through the desert and other places that arn't so comfortable, and thats when we are going to feel like real victims, but we are the ones that actually caused the problems the most, indirectly, by not taking action, and if we don't, you might as well grab your sisters hand. WE ARE ALL THAT STANDS. it might look like they don't know what they are really standing up for in other peoples eyes, it just looks like blind hate. another anti song, this one has a lot of heart in it, in the music especially.
it sounds like to me he says "from your pages to your head" instead of "from the pages to your head". it makes the song make more sense to me. or maybe not, that sounds like its about a diary, then if its "the pages" it sounds like a newspaper.