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 am back again a decade much stronger
Emerged from darkness Im everything you wanted.
Coffee and Cigarettes, they kept me going but I kept on going.
New state of mind, new kind of state
From the Freedom Wall to a fresh clean slate
Slowly I see you inside me.
Havent you heard that Im your savior?
Alone in this world but I can save ya
Spending all your time down on your knees, looking for me
Havent you heard?
When Im on the streets Ive got more courage
When the clouds get grey I just get more earnest
Time doesnt bother me cause Ive got the control. Im under control.
Like a rolling wave youll see me coming,
Disasters close but Im too stunning
Slowly I see you inside me.
Havent you heard that Im your savior?
Alone in this world but I can save you.
Spending all your time down on your knees, looking for me
Havent you heard?
And Im singing
Havent you heard that Im your savior?
Alone in this world but I can save ya
Spending all your time down on your knees, looking for me
Havent you heard?
Emerged from darkness Im everything you wanted.
Coffee and Cigarettes, they kept me going but I kept on going.
New state of mind, new kind of state
From the Freedom Wall to a fresh clean slate
Slowly I see you inside me.
Havent you heard that Im your savior?
Alone in this world but I can save ya
Spending all your time down on your knees, looking for me
Havent you heard?
When Im on the streets Ive got more courage
When the clouds get grey I just get more earnest
Time doesnt bother me cause Ive got the control. Im under control.
Like a rolling wave youll see me coming,
Disasters close but Im too stunning
Slowly I see you inside me.
Havent you heard that Im your savior?
Alone in this world but I can save you.
Spending all your time down on your knees, looking for me
Havent you heard?
And Im singing
Havent you heard that Im your savior?
Alone in this world but I can save ya
Spending all your time down on your knees, looking for me
Havent you heard?
Lyrics submitted by kitty bitch
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