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 incisions on your wrist were all for show.
Just like you.
The epitome of self indulgence.
Another farce, a charade and another set of crocodile tears.
So serenade her with your last pathetic suicide love song.
"Broken hearts never mend."
But fools never move one.
And now she's gone because of you.
And once again you're the epitome of pure self destruction.
Cupid never found his mark.
As we await the insertion of blades on flesh.
You part the skin and tell of blades on blood.
So part the fucking skin.
So part the fucking skin.
To tell the blades on blood.
To tell the blades on the blood.
The blades on blood.
She said I love you.
She said, she said goodbye.
So cry me a fucking river bitch.
You wouldn't know love if it crushed you fucking chest.
Let go.
You wouldn't know love if it crushed your fucking chest.
"Razors, roses and a black tomorrow."
You wouldn't know love if it crushed your fucking chest.
"Razors, roses and a black tomorrow."
Yeahhh.
They never showed any affection to anything but your ego.
A tragedy of errors at the best of times.
You are everything that's wrong with me.
You are everything that I despise.
You are everything I dreamed would die.
You are everything that fades away and slowly dies.
Will you bleed for me when suicide seems so yesterday?
Will you bleed for me?
Will you fucking bleed for me when suicide.
So yesterday.
It's all so fucking yesterday.
So yesterday.
Just like you.
The epitome of self indulgence.
Another farce, a charade and another set of crocodile tears.
So serenade her with your last pathetic suicide love song.
"Broken hearts never mend."
But fools never move one.
And now she's gone because of you.
And once again you're the epitome of pure self destruction.
Cupid never found his mark.
As we await the insertion of blades on flesh.
You part the skin and tell of blades on blood.
So part the fucking skin.
So part the fucking skin.
To tell the blades on blood.
To tell the blades on the blood.
The blades on blood.
She said I love you.
She said, she said goodbye.
So cry me a fucking river bitch.
You wouldn't know love if it crushed you fucking chest.
Let go.
You wouldn't know love if it crushed your fucking chest.
"Razors, roses and a black tomorrow."
You wouldn't know love if it crushed your fucking chest.
"Razors, roses and a black tomorrow."
Yeahhh.
They never showed any affection to anything but your ego.
A tragedy of errors at the best of times.
You are everything that's wrong with me.
You are everything that I despise.
You are everything I dreamed would die.
You are everything that fades away and slowly dies.
Will you bleed for me when suicide seems so yesterday?
Will you bleed for me?
Will you fucking bleed for me when suicide.
So yesterday.
It's all so fucking yesterday.
So yesterday.
Lyrics submitted by parkway_drive, edited by BlueDiamondx3
Romance Is Dead Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Cleve Ling Benjamin Michael Gordon
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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your a fucking weirdo, obsidian0231.
thats your take on it, is it? nice one.
try again?