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"
Go, repress your prudent side
It's beautiful but plastic
Go, reveal darker sides
Killing is never to drastic
Go, turn to the assassin
Go, make an appointment with the assassin
Turn to the assassin
Turn to the assassin
Turn to the assassin
Turn to the assassin
Go, turn to the assassin
Go, make an appointment with the assassin
It's beautiful but plastic
Go, reveal darker sides
Killing is never to drastic
Go, turn to the assassin
Go, make an appointment with the assassin
Turn to the assassin
Turn to the assassin
Turn to the assassin
Turn to the assassin
Go, turn to the assassin
Go, make an appointment with the assassin
Lyrics submitted by marquicerise
Turn to the Assassin Lyrics as written by Jose Gonzalez Araya Elias Assegahegn
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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It's symbolic, like the Buddhist saying "If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha." Do not become attached to these false ideas of truth or reality. Never be afraid to kill these versions of yourself. You must be an assassin of the "plastic" (artificial) ideas you've become repressed with.
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