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"
These shades of gray
Haunted by his shadow
And stirring stormy skies
He begs for delight
Oh, he freezes her soul
He’s falling hard
As cities crumble
Away into the dark
And he wakes to see the fear in her eyes
Oh, how he loves those eyes
The blood on his guilty hands is raining on me
It leaves me cold
These filthy lands
His guilty hands they touch
Its cold as ice
Like soul-sucking life
Scream into empty night
Empty night
The blood on his guilty hands is raining
It leaves me cold
It leaves me cold
It leaves me cold
She says, “I don’t want to feel
The way I do now
For the shame no one will know
What his guilty hands have done”
And when she dreams
She really wants to float on the sea
But he’s tied a rock to her feet
She’s screaming in her sleep
In her sleep
The blood on his guilty hands is raining
It leaves me cold
It leaves me cold
It leaves me cold
She says, “I don’t want to feel
The way I do now
For the shame no one will know
What his guilty hands have done”
How can I get away?
How can I get him away?
How can I get away?
How can I get him away?
How can I get away?
How can I get him away?
How can I get away?
How can I get away?
The blood on his guilty hands is raining
I don’t want to feel the blood
Feel the blood
Feel its raining
I don’t want to feel those hands
Cold, cold hands
It’s raining
How can I get away
From the blood, it’s my blood
Oh, it’s raining
She says, “I don’t want to feel
The way I do now
For the shame no one will know
What his guilty hands have done”
Haunted by his shadow
And stirring stormy skies
He begs for delight
Oh, he freezes her soul
He’s falling hard
As cities crumble
Away into the dark
And he wakes to see the fear in her eyes
Oh, how he loves those eyes
The blood on his guilty hands is raining on me
It leaves me cold
These filthy lands
His guilty hands they touch
Its cold as ice
Like soul-sucking life
Scream into empty night
Empty night
The blood on his guilty hands is raining
It leaves me cold
It leaves me cold
It leaves me cold
She says, “I don’t want to feel
The way I do now
For the shame no one will know
What his guilty hands have done”
And when she dreams
She really wants to float on the sea
But he’s tied a rock to her feet
She’s screaming in her sleep
In her sleep
The blood on his guilty hands is raining
It leaves me cold
It leaves me cold
It leaves me cold
She says, “I don’t want to feel
The way I do now
For the shame no one will know
What his guilty hands have done”
How can I get away?
How can I get him away?
How can I get away?
How can I get him away?
How can I get away?
How can I get him away?
How can I get away?
How can I get away?
The blood on his guilty hands is raining
I don’t want to feel the blood
Feel the blood
Feel its raining
I don’t want to feel those hands
Cold, cold hands
It’s raining
How can I get away
From the blood, it’s my blood
Oh, it’s raining
She says, “I don’t want to feel
The way I do now
For the shame no one will know
What his guilty hands have done”
Lyrics submitted by gingerosity
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