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"
You make me whole and I want to thank you for this
I wanna thank you for this chance to be angels
You push me to strive harder when I'm unable
And I want, you said, I need this, I want, you said, don't leave this
Now's our time were gonna make things right and pull through tonight
I remember when we were younger we had nothing but strived for something
And I wanna thank you for this chance to be angels
Thank you for everything, we had nothing and strived for something
I remember when we were young, we had nothing and strived for something
And now I want to know like fire, come and drown with me like the fire
Come and light the fire, light the flames
I wanna thank you for this chance to be angels
You push me to strive harder when I'm unable
And I want, you said, I need this, I want, you said, don't leave this
Now's our time were gonna make things right and pull through tonight
I remember when we were younger we had nothing but strived for something
And I wanna thank you for this chance to be angels
Thank you for everything, we had nothing and strived for something
I remember when we were young, we had nothing and strived for something
And now I want to know like fire, come and drown with me like the fire
Come and light the fire, light the flames
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Times Like These Lyrics as written by Michael Tyler Frisby Craig Edward Mabbitt
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humans cant be angles, no humans will ever become angles, the bible dosnt say that..
Its talking about god making angles and how they thanked him for the chance to be angles, then they sing: "come and drown with me" showing what the devil says to gods angles
then it says "now i want to know like fire" showing about how some of the angles wanted to join satan
Revelation 12:7-9 shows us that one third of gods angles followed satan
the devil says to the demons: "come and light the fire" and some of the times he sings this you hear a faint "no" showing that not all of the angles folloed satan.
this could also be meaning how god will use angles to throw all sinners that are not saved into the firey lake of hell but the line "now i want to know like fire, come and drown with me like the fire" makes me think not
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lol...... a very good song...and lyrics... maybe the fire is all about his happiness.... he want someone to come with the happiness he felt.... hehehehe.......lol....i dont know it....
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seems to be about reflecting about first becoming a Christian. i originally thought it was about his mom or another family member because of the line "i remember when we were younger..." but im not exactly sure... i can see it meaning either one..
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