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"
Phantom (Don Juan):
Passarino - Go away for the trap
Is set
And waits for its prey
You have come here
In pursuit of your deepest urge
In pursuit of that wish which till now
Has been silent
Silent
I have brought you
That our passions that may fuse and merge
In your mind you’ve already succumbed to me
Drop all defences
Completely succumb to me
Now you are here with me
No second thoughts
You've decided
Decided
Past the point of no return
No backward glances
Our games of make-believe are at an end
Past a thought of "if" or "when"
No use resisting
Abandon thought and let the dream descend
What raging fires shall flood the soul
What rich desire unlocks its door
What sweet seduction lies before us
Past the point of no return
The final threshold
What warm unspoken secrets
Will we learn
Beyond the point of no return
Christine (Aminta):
You have brought me
To that moment when words run dry
To that moment when speech disappears
Into silence
Silence
I have come here
Hardly knowing the reason why
In my mind I've already imagined
Our bodies entwining
Defenceless and silent
Now I am here with you
No second thoughts
I've decided
Decided
Past the point of no return
No going back now
Our passion-play has now at last begun
Past all thought of right or wrong
One final question
How long should we two wait before we're one
When will the blood begin to race
The sleeping bud burst into bloom
When will the flames at last consume us
Both:
Past the point of no return
The final threshold
The bridge is crossed
So stand and watch it burn
We've passed the point of no return
Phantom:
Say you'll share with me
One love, one lifetime
Lead me, save me from my solitude
Say you'll want me
With you here
Beside you
Anywhere you go
Let me go too
Christine, that's all I ask of ...
Carlotta (Spoken): Piangi, my love. Mi amore.
Firmin (Spoken): We're ruined, Andre - ruined!
Raoul (Spoken): Where did he take her?
Madame Giry (Spoken):
Come with me, monsieur
I will take you to him, but remember
Keep your hand at the level of your eyes
Meg (Spoken): I'll go with you
Madame Giry (Spoken):
No, Meg!. No, you must stay here!
Come with me, monsieur
Meg (Spoken): No!
Passarino - Go away for the trap
Is set
And waits for its prey
You have come here
In pursuit of your deepest urge
In pursuit of that wish which till now
Has been silent
Silent
I have brought you
That our passions that may fuse and merge
In your mind you’ve already succumbed to me
Drop all defences
Completely succumb to me
Now you are here with me
No second thoughts
You've decided
Decided
Past the point of no return
No backward glances
Our games of make-believe are at an end
Past a thought of "if" or "when"
No use resisting
Abandon thought and let the dream descend
What raging fires shall flood the soul
What rich desire unlocks its door
What sweet seduction lies before us
Past the point of no return
The final threshold
What warm unspoken secrets
Will we learn
Beyond the point of no return
Christine (Aminta):
You have brought me
To that moment when words run dry
To that moment when speech disappears
Into silence
Silence
I have come here
Hardly knowing the reason why
In my mind I've already imagined
Our bodies entwining
Defenceless and silent
Now I am here with you
No second thoughts
I've decided
Decided
Past the point of no return
No going back now
Our passion-play has now at last begun
Past all thought of right or wrong
One final question
How long should we two wait before we're one
When will the blood begin to race
The sleeping bud burst into bloom
When will the flames at last consume us
Both:
Past the point of no return
The final threshold
The bridge is crossed
So stand and watch it burn
We've passed the point of no return
Phantom:
Say you'll share with me
One love, one lifetime
Lead me, save me from my solitude
Say you'll want me
With you here
Beside you
Anywhere you go
Let me go too
Christine, that's all I ask of ...
Carlotta (Spoken): Piangi, my love. Mi amore.
Firmin (Spoken): We're ruined, Andre - ruined!
Raoul (Spoken): Where did he take her?
Madame Giry (Spoken):
Come with me, monsieur
I will take you to him, but remember
Keep your hand at the level of your eyes
Meg (Spoken): I'll go with you
Madame Giry (Spoken):
No, Meg!. No, you must stay here!
Come with me, monsieur
Meg (Spoken): No!
Lyrics submitted by starrydust
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