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"
Lay back
For me
You are just exactly what I need
In this cold town
Lay back
For me
The three of us in circus
And in liberty
It’s been so long
So throw your guilt religion
To the liars and the weak
This is the politics and war
Of ecstasy
And all the nonsense of that vision
That is failing every test
It's the comedy and death
Of your senses
The alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
Be blind to myself
To idolize
the alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
I’m blind to myself
And idolize
You work
So deep
Astonished and in rapture
I can barely speak
These are hard times
Hormones
In key
A slow whispered wet confession
From our body heat
There’s no return.
The alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
Be blind to myself
To idolize
The alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
I’m blind to myself
And idolize
For me
You are just exactly what I need
In this cold town
Lay back
For me
The three of us in circus
And in liberty
It’s been so long
So throw your guilt religion
To the liars and the weak
This is the politics and war
Of ecstasy
And all the nonsense of that vision
That is failing every test
It's the comedy and death
Of your senses
The alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
Be blind to myself
To idolize
the alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
I’m blind to myself
And idolize
You work
So deep
Astonished and in rapture
I can barely speak
These are hard times
Hormones
In key
A slow whispered wet confession
From our body heat
There’s no return.
The alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
Be blind to myself
To idolize
The alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
I’m blind to myself
And idolize
Lyrics submitted by pinkillusion
The Alternative Lyrics as written by Chris Corner
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I agree with the masturbation theory. "the three of us in circus and in liberty" he, the girl in his fantasy and his sexual desire, his hormones. I admire the lyric becuse of this 4 lines "and all the nonsense of that vision that is failing every test it's the comedy and death of your senses" This is a very original view of masturbating, emotionally smart recognition in my opinion