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"
When they all come crashing down-midflight
You know you're not the only one
When they're so alone they find a back door out of life
You know you're not the only one
We're all grieving
Lost and bleeding
All our lives
We've been waiting
For someone to call our leader
All your lies
I'm not believing
Heaven shine a light down on me
So afraid to open your eyes- hypnotized
You know you're not the only one
Never understood this life
And you're right I don't deserve but you know I'm not the only one
We're all grieving
Lost and bleeding
All our lives
We've been waiting
For someone to call our leader
All your lies
I'm not believing
Heaven shine a light down on me
Don't look down
Don't look into the eyes of the world beneath you
Don't look down, you'll fall down
You'll become their sacrifice
Right or wrong
Can't hold onto the fear that I'm lost without you
If I can't feel, I'm not mine
I'm not real
All our lives
We've been waiting
For someone to call our leader
All your lies
I'm not believing
Heaven shine a light down on me
You know you're not the only one
When they're so alone they find a back door out of life
You know you're not the only one
We're all grieving
Lost and bleeding
All our lives
We've been waiting
For someone to call our leader
All your lies
I'm not believing
Heaven shine a light down on me
So afraid to open your eyes- hypnotized
You know you're not the only one
Never understood this life
And you're right I don't deserve but you know I'm not the only one
We're all grieving
Lost and bleeding
All our lives
We've been waiting
For someone to call our leader
All your lies
I'm not believing
Heaven shine a light down on me
Don't look down
Don't look into the eyes of the world beneath you
Don't look down, you'll fall down
You'll become their sacrifice
Right or wrong
Can't hold onto the fear that I'm lost without you
If I can't feel, I'm not mine
I'm not real
All our lives
We've been waiting
For someone to call our leader
All your lies
I'm not believing
Heaven shine a light down on me
Lyrics submitted by Liquid-Spear-Waltz, edited by rabbitheartedkid
The Only One Lyrics as written by Terry Balsamo Amy Lee
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You know you're not the only one((s)he is obivousaly trying to cheer someone up) When they all come crashing down, midflight,(maybe angels..i dont know my opinion/thought) You know you're not the only one.(again trying to make someone feel better...maybe...) When they're so alone they find a back door out of life.(maybe suicidal or runaway from there problems) You know you're not the only one.(trying to make someone feel better)
We're all grieving,(maybe the person (s)he is trying to make feel better family is grieving along with that persons friends) Lost and bleeding.(lost as in confused and bleeding like mentally gone crazy or..cut themself...maybe i dont know)
All our lives,(literal) We've been waiting(literal) For someone to call our leader.(maybe Jesus/God theyre savior or group leader...it could be many things for the leader) All your lies,(now (s)hes mad at the persons lies about something) I'm not believing.(literal) Heaven shine a light down on me.(Heaven like..God help him/her through theyre problems...or their difficult times)
So afraid to open your eyes, hypnotized.(the person is afraid to belive in whats happening or something else could be many things like being possesed...) You know you're not the only one(trying to make the person feel better) Never understood this life.(literal) And you're right, I don't deserve(the person (s)he is trying to cheer up tells him/her that they dont deserve to have or be something..maybe the only one of something...maybe) But you know I'm not the only one.(so now (s)he realizes that (s)he isnt the only one of something...like..being an orphan,running away,hated bullied, or many other things)
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Don't look down,(telling a person not to do that or something bad will happen) Don't look into the eyes of the world beneath you.(maybe Hell....) Don't look down, you'll fall down,(fall into Satans hands or something...many possibilites) You'll become their sacrifice.(literal or torture...i dont know)
Right or wrong.(literal) Can't hold onto the fear that I'm lost without you.((s)he loves that person maybe as in family or boyfriend/girlfriend) If I can't feel, I'm not mine,I'm not real.(may already be dead or is having a mental break down...this one im not sure)
We all have our opinions/interperation so this is mine this can be 1 of many posibilites) <NINJA WOLF>
I wasn't planing on creation an account on this stupid website, but then i saw your idiotic comment, and your failur attempt to explain such a wonderful song, and then i decided to make an account just to reply to you :) YOU MORON!!!!!!! a song is never about the meaning of every verse separately!!!!! it's about the meaning of the song as a whole, an overall meaning you DUMB!!! and please next time before you spend all that time and effort in something as stupid as explaining every sentence in a song,,,JUST THINK BEFORE YOU DO ITTTT (i dont know my opinion/thought) :)