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"
It's days like this I wish that I, wish that I had stayed asleep
It's times like these that make it so difficult to be
The light at the end, the crack in the sky
There's no promise for release
No way for me to get away
And all I'm trying to do is breath
Searching, for something more
Searching, for something right
Searching, for a sense of clarity
Searching, for a place to die!
Days like this I really wish, I really wish I wasn't me
It's times like this that make it hard, makes it hard to fuckin' see
No light at the end, no crack in the sky
Everyone ends up deceased
A life like mine makes a man, turns a grown man to a flea
Searching, for something more
Searching, for something right
Searching, for a sense of clarity
Searching, for a place to die!
Piece by piece, I slowly fade away,
I slowly drift apart
I see a different world, closing in on the future
Sorry to be so cynical but it's all I know
Piece by piece, I slowly start to change
I slowly start to change!
It's days like this I wish that I, wish that I had stayed asleep
It's times like these that make it so difficult to be
No light at the end, no crack in the sky
Everyone ends up deceased
A life like mine makes a man, turns a grown man to a flea
Searching, for something more
Searching, for something right
Searching, for a sense of clarity
Searching, for a place to die!
Searching for a place to die!
It's times like these that make it so difficult to be
The light at the end, the crack in the sky
There's no promise for release
No way for me to get away
And all I'm trying to do is breath
Searching, for something more
Searching, for something right
Searching, for a sense of clarity
Searching, for a place to die!
Days like this I really wish, I really wish I wasn't me
It's times like this that make it hard, makes it hard to fuckin' see
No light at the end, no crack in the sky
Everyone ends up deceased
A life like mine makes a man, turns a grown man to a flea
Searching, for something more
Searching, for something right
Searching, for a sense of clarity
Searching, for a place to die!
Piece by piece, I slowly fade away,
I slowly drift apart
I see a different world, closing in on the future
Sorry to be so cynical but it's all I know
Piece by piece, I slowly start to change
I slowly start to change!
It's days like this I wish that I, wish that I had stayed asleep
It's times like these that make it so difficult to be
No light at the end, no crack in the sky
Everyone ends up deceased
A life like mine makes a man, turns a grown man to a flea
Searching, for something more
Searching, for something right
Searching, for a sense of clarity
Searching, for a place to die!
Searching for a place to die!
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I agree, to an extent with your comment. I feel like he hasn't found his purpose like you've said and It also seems like he's given up on trying because he feels like it's not worth it anymore.
"I feel different, walls closing in on the future, Sorry to be so cynical, IT'S ALL I KNOW." My favourite part of the song
its i see a different world, walls closing in on the future you dumb fuckin backward cunt
wait no walls lol<br />
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sorry for the rhyme... i do that alot.
This song is really under rated. I absolutely love everything about it, lyrics and melody. OMG, the guitar solo, one of the best.
This song would be kick ass if it was slower, well its already kick ass but yeah.