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"
Far away from twilight I'm searching for my soul
But still I can't find what I've journeyed for
All the distant places I've passed along my way
They seem to be fading with the remnants of the day
See me now with the tears in my eyes
Hear my sight as I reach out for the light
So conquer the world in the afterlife
Peace now for my soul
A new revelation has just begun
Secrets left untold
Crossed the fields of sadness and oceans of true love
Now I enter the realm of the dark beyond
Embraced within the powers I've longed for all these years
Redemption must be close at hand to wash away my fears
So conquer the world in the afterlife
Peace now for my soul
A new revelation has just begun
Secrets soon I know
Fire in my eyes, I feel the pain inside that's ripping in my entity
Do I believe what I see?
And so many times I have failed to pass this test of faith
But now it's my turn, the rest of the world shall burn!
Far away from twilight you're searching for your soul
But still you can't find what you've journeyed for?
When you're on that journey just like me some times ago
Remember what the wise men said: "Go, follow your heart all the way!"
See me now with the tears in my eyes
Hear my cry to the sky as I reach out for the light
So conquer the world in the afterlife
Peace now for my soul
A new revelation has just begun
Secrets now I know
But still I can't find what I've journeyed for
All the distant places I've passed along my way
They seem to be fading with the remnants of the day
See me now with the tears in my eyes
Hear my sight as I reach out for the light
So conquer the world in the afterlife
Peace now for my soul
A new revelation has just begun
Secrets left untold
Crossed the fields of sadness and oceans of true love
Now I enter the realm of the dark beyond
Embraced within the powers I've longed for all these years
Redemption must be close at hand to wash away my fears
So conquer the world in the afterlife
Peace now for my soul
A new revelation has just begun
Secrets soon I know
Fire in my eyes, I feel the pain inside that's ripping in my entity
Do I believe what I see?
And so many times I have failed to pass this test of faith
But now it's my turn, the rest of the world shall burn!
Far away from twilight you're searching for your soul
But still you can't find what you've journeyed for?
When you're on that journey just like me some times ago
Remember what the wise men said: "Go, follow your heart all the way!"
See me now with the tears in my eyes
Hear my cry to the sky as I reach out for the light
So conquer the world in the afterlife
Peace now for my soul
A new revelation has just begun
Secrets now I know
Lyrics submitted by OW Angel
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