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"
She haunts the roads
She waits for new face
Her arms red and injured
She wants to rise
She can't 'til we have faced
I've cut your armies down
And sought your heart
You wait
I wait
Outside, awake for you
I've cut your armies down
And sought your heart
You wait
I wait
Outside awake
Awake
She haunts the roads
She waits for new face
She waits for new face
Her arms red and injured
She wants to rise
She can't 'til we have faced
I've cut your armies down
And sought your heart
You wait
I wait
Outside, awake for you
I've cut your armies down
And sought your heart
You wait
I wait
Outside awake
Awake
She haunts the roads
She waits for new face
Lyrics submitted by davo_ismad
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I think this song deals with someone who can't get a girl out of his mind.
"Roads" could represent how some people say that thoughts are travelling through their mind. "How do these thoughts travel through their minds?" on metaphoric roads.
The line, "she waits for a new face" could mean that she is going to be there until someone elses face takes the place of hers.
I think the lines "The arms red and injured/She wants to rise/She can't 'till we have faced" means that he is holding down the thought of the girl into his head. Injured arms could be on account to being tied down and the thought could be struggling to excape his mind but he doesn't want to let it go becuase he hasn't found another to replace it yet. He won't let the thought of her go until he has another face to replace hers.
The next lines I believe represent his struggle to try and keep the memory of the girl in his mind. He doesn't want to let go of the girl that is haunting his mind. "I'll cut your armies down/and turn your heart," coult represent his endless struggle to try and get her back or to keep her.
"You wait, I'll wait/I'll lie awake for you," seems to mean that he's determined to get this person back.
I think that when he says "I'll break down," he could be literally breaking down from the struggle. At this point and leading up to it, the music gets aggressive it could represent his break down.
The aggressive music subsides and turn back into the calm melody from the beginning. The first lines of the song are repeated at this point and could represent his struggle has ended and he is back to where he was; with the thought of this girl in his head that won't leave until he finds another to replace her.
I also got to thinking that the "new face" could represent a time when he sees the girl again. So in this case, he is not trying to replace her with someone else, only with a new memory.
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