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"
I was born in the year of the Bulls-Eye
And unless the headlines lie,
then they prophesied
That this age was the one to detonate
So let's go
No More
I can't take another false alarm
So if the fuses have been lit,
let's get this over with
I can't take another false alarm
And I don't want to wait,
another day for the countdown
Because I fell in love with my visions of
the mushroom cloud
I was born and bred to bear witness
To a long awaited glimpse of the
burdened titan's bliss
As he sheds the weight that was
his suffering
Until now
No More
I can't take another false alarm
So if the fuses have been lit,
let's get this over with
I can't take another false alarm
And I don't want to wait,
another day for the countdown
Because I fell in love with my visions of
the mushroom cloud
With open arms
Standing on a target
I thought that I could catch it
I'll be the lucky one
I won't close my eyes
As I'm overloaded
By all of the explosions
A spectacle of falling shells
So now it's bombs away
The blasting caps
Will all laugh last
With our collapse
The Never Ever Aftermath
No More
I can't take another false alarm
And as the ashes settle in,
all will be silent
I can't take another false alarm
And I don't want to wait,
another day for the countdown
Because I fell in love with my visions of
the mushroom cloud
And unless the headlines lie,
then they prophesied
That this age was the one to detonate
So let's go
No More
I can't take another false alarm
So if the fuses have been lit,
let's get this over with
I can't take another false alarm
And I don't want to wait,
another day for the countdown
Because I fell in love with my visions of
the mushroom cloud
I was born and bred to bear witness
To a long awaited glimpse of the
burdened titan's bliss
As he sheds the weight that was
his suffering
Until now
No More
I can't take another false alarm
So if the fuses have been lit,
let's get this over with
I can't take another false alarm
And I don't want to wait,
another day for the countdown
Because I fell in love with my visions of
the mushroom cloud
With open arms
Standing on a target
I thought that I could catch it
I'll be the lucky one
I won't close my eyes
As I'm overloaded
By all of the explosions
A spectacle of falling shells
So now it's bombs away
The blasting caps
Will all laugh last
With our collapse
The Never Ever Aftermath
No More
I can't take another false alarm
And as the ashes settle in,
all will be silent
I can't take another false alarm
And I don't want to wait,
another day for the countdown
Because I fell in love with my visions of
the mushroom cloud
Lyrics submitted by Gothicoyne
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