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"
Hatred.
I been hangin' on the corner, starin' at the night sky,
and
' the cars drive by.
The faces stare but they don't see me
as I think about the past and I wonder why?
Some of you were born into happiness and wealth
while some of us were born to a life of hell.
And some of us were lost and some of us were found
but most of us were beaten by life to the ground.
Hatred.
And I don't believe in your society.
While you partied and lived it up,
I've seen so many bleed.
I've seen so many bleed.
'Cause I was born into nothing to this world full of shit
and nothing's changing anytime soon...
so I would rather die than listen to you try to compare me and you.
To compare me to you.
The sign in the road says we're going nowhere
but it's been twenty years since I cared.
I don't need nobody to save me.
So just walk away, oh yeah.
I know nobody can hear me.
There's nothing more i can say.
Have you ever prayed to the night sky?
Under one of them cold street lights?
Watched another stolen car drive by?
Lost your hope and said "this is where I'll die"?
And maybe I'm you enemy.
So don't turn your back on me.
Soulless hatred.
I can feel it killing me.
And I don't know what I've planned or what I mean
to do about this world I see.
So many suffer silently but the beat just goes on endlessly.
Someone's bleeding tonight...
I see another joker on the news telling me to play the fool.
Someone's bleeding tonight...
When all I ever wanted was a heart of gold to tell me the truth.
You can rip my heart tonight...
Just gimme some truth.
'Cause all I want is the truth.
All I want is, all I need is...
I need somebody to save me.
But you walk away, oh yeah.
I need somebody to hear me.
There's nothing more I can say...
I been hangin' on the corner, starin' at the night sky,
and
' the cars drive by.
The faces stare but they don't see me
as I think about the past and I wonder why?
Some of you were born into happiness and wealth
while some of us were born to a life of hell.
And some of us were lost and some of us were found
but most of us were beaten by life to the ground.
Hatred.
And I don't believe in your society.
While you partied and lived it up,
I've seen so many bleed.
I've seen so many bleed.
'Cause I was born into nothing to this world full of shit
and nothing's changing anytime soon...
so I would rather die than listen to you try to compare me and you.
To compare me to you.
The sign in the road says we're going nowhere
but it's been twenty years since I cared.
I don't need nobody to save me.
So just walk away, oh yeah.
I know nobody can hear me.
There's nothing more i can say.
Have you ever prayed to the night sky?
Under one of them cold street lights?
Watched another stolen car drive by?
Lost your hope and said "this is where I'll die"?
And maybe I'm you enemy.
So don't turn your back on me.
Soulless hatred.
I can feel it killing me.
And I don't know what I've planned or what I mean
to do about this world I see.
So many suffer silently but the beat just goes on endlessly.
Someone's bleeding tonight...
I see another joker on the news telling me to play the fool.
Someone's bleeding tonight...
When all I ever wanted was a heart of gold to tell me the truth.
You can rip my heart tonight...
Just gimme some truth.
'Cause all I want is the truth.
All I want is, all I need is...
I need somebody to save me.
But you walk away, oh yeah.
I need somebody to hear me.
There's nothing more I can say...
Lyrics submitted by maggot#8
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