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"
We all seem so meaningless within our lives (our lives)
We all seem so meaningless within our truth
I wanted you to be a part of me
But now we all want to be something
You all want to be something
But you're lost
We'll never take it back cause our souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
We'll never have them back cause their souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
Pocketful of empty promises
I know you know the way to drag us down in nothingness
Spending your time in raising the masterpiece of lies
That suits us fine
I wanted you to be a part of me
But now we all want to be something
You all want to be something
We're lost
We'll never take it back cause our souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
We'll never have them back cause their souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
We'll never take it back
We'll never take it back
We're just a damn lost nation
We're just a damn lost nation
It goes on and on
We are blind
We are blind
It goes on and on
We are blind
Looking for an evolution
But now you're on the edge and you're about to fall down
Looking for an evolution
But now you're on the edge and you're about to fall down
We'll never take it back cause our souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
We'll never have them back cause their souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
We'll never take it back
We'll never take it back
We just lost
We'll never take it back
We'll never take it back
We're just a damn lost nation
Lost nation
We all seem so meaningless within our truth
I wanted you to be a part of me
But now we all want to be something
You all want to be something
But you're lost
We'll never take it back cause our souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
We'll never have them back cause their souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
Pocketful of empty promises
I know you know the way to drag us down in nothingness
Spending your time in raising the masterpiece of lies
That suits us fine
I wanted you to be a part of me
But now we all want to be something
You all want to be something
We're lost
We'll never take it back cause our souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
We'll never have them back cause their souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
We'll never take it back
We'll never take it back
We're just a damn lost nation
We're just a damn lost nation
It goes on and on
We are blind
We are blind
It goes on and on
We are blind
Looking for an evolution
But now you're on the edge and you're about to fall down
Looking for an evolution
But now you're on the edge and you're about to fall down
We'll never take it back cause our souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
We'll never have them back cause their souls are lost (lost)
Decreasing of the nation
We'll never take it back
We'll never take it back
We just lost
We'll never take it back
We'll never take it back
We're just a damn lost nation
Lost nation
Lyrics submitted by Turbo Speed
Meaningless Lyrics as written by Guillaume Bernard Philippe Pat Bideau Brian Rasmussen
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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