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"
Some say it was a warning
Some say it was a sign
I was standing right there
When it came down from the sky
The way it spoke to us
You felt it from inside
Said it was up to us
Up to us to decide
You've become a virus
That's killing off his host
We been watching you with all of our eyes
And what you seem to value most
So much potential
Or so we used to say
Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance
You piss it all away
We heard her cry
We have come to intervene
You will change your ways and you will make amends
Or we will wipe this place clean
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Ticking away
Some say it was a sign
I was standing right there
When it came down from the sky
The way it spoke to us
You felt it from inside
Said it was up to us
Up to us to decide
You've become a virus
That's killing off his host
We been watching you with all of our eyes
And what you seem to value most
So much potential
Or so we used to say
Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance
You piss it all away
We heard her cry
We have come to intervene
You will change your ways and you will make amends
Or we will wipe this place clean
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Your time is tick, tick, ticking away
Ticking away
Lyrics submitted by not_for_real, edited by Loliam
The Warning Lyrics as written by Trent Reznor
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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i love how raw this song is. When I first heard it at the listening party, i was blown away as everything clashed melodically. As far as the lyrics, what if it was written like this,
Some say it was a warning Some say it was a sign I was standing right there When it came down from the sky The way it spoke to us You felt it from inside Said it was up to us Up to us to decide
"You've become a virus That has eaten up its host We've been watching you with all of our eyes And what you seem to value most"
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"We heard a cry We've come to intervene You will change your ways and you will make amends Or we will wipe this place clean"
"Your time is tick-tick-ticking away"
In other words, The Presence has always been around but it has finally made an appearance. Everything in quotation marks are the words coming from what it had to say. The last part as far as "you will change your ways and you will make amends//or we will wipe this place clean// your time is tick-tick-ticking away" can be the very warning right before the world was bombed, not necessarily by armed forces but by something a little higher, like the presence. I know it's a little out there but why else would the presence be presented to us if it did not play a key role in the storyline.