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"
Burning sign - in the sky - stroms rise - on the northern side
Thunder roars - lightning strikes - man the ships - to war we ride
Demons from a place unknown - where evil dwellls and dark things grow
By the grace of firegods - asault our land of ice and snow
Written in the prophecy ages ago - the war between fire and snow
Demons unleashed from the darklands core - this time its war
My heart for the lands of winter
And my sword strikes for the light
For my god I will die
And my fate is the shield of mine
Born in the land of north and here I will die
Sail across the seven seas - that is your destiny
Where great evil reigns - and the oceans meet eternity
The fortress of shadows - in the frozen wasteland
The core of darkness - mankinds fate of is at hand
Oh mother of north - hold safety your sons
Oh father of storms - bring us north from here
Hold darkness from us - not death only failure we fear
Sail across the seven seas - that is your destiny
Where great evil reigns - and the oceans meet eternity
The fortress of shadows - in the frozen wasteland
The core of darkness - mankinds fate of is at hand
Sail across the seven seas - through the seven gates of hell
To the forbidden place - where great evil dwells
Moving shades of black - shining eyes of fire
Death hiding in the darkness - and it seems that all your gods have left
Approaching the realm of fire - fighting side by side
Fighting day and night - we will win or we all will die
Thunder roars - lightning strikes - man the ships - to war we ride
Demons from a place unknown - where evil dwellls and dark things grow
By the grace of firegods - asault our land of ice and snow
Written in the prophecy ages ago - the war between fire and snow
Demons unleashed from the darklands core - this time its war
My heart for the lands of winter
And my sword strikes for the light
For my god I will die
And my fate is the shield of mine
Born in the land of north and here I will die
Sail across the seven seas - that is your destiny
Where great evil reigns - and the oceans meet eternity
The fortress of shadows - in the frozen wasteland
The core of darkness - mankinds fate of is at hand
Oh mother of north - hold safety your sons
Oh father of storms - bring us north from here
Hold darkness from us - not death only failure we fear
Sail across the seven seas - that is your destiny
Where great evil reigns - and the oceans meet eternity
The fortress of shadows - in the frozen wasteland
The core of darkness - mankinds fate of is at hand
Sail across the seven seas - through the seven gates of hell
To the forbidden place - where great evil dwells
Moving shades of black - shining eyes of fire
Death hiding in the darkness - and it seems that all your gods have left
Approaching the realm of fire - fighting side by side
Fighting day and night - we will win or we all will die
Lyrics submitted by Bloodmouth
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