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 wasn’t always a monster, I was a prince.
Now, so broken, so,
Addicted to bad ideas & to drugs & to all the beauty in this world, I know
Though I have grown older & graver, the great heart of the world remains ever young.
I wasn’t always a monster, I was a prince.
Now, so broken, so.
I wasn’t always a monster, I was a saint.
Now, forgotten, so,
Addicted to bad ideas & to the blood that runs from my eyes and my hands and my throat
Though I have grown older & graver, the great heart of the world remains ever young.
I wasn’t always a monster, I was a prince.
Now, so broken, so.
Because I can, 'cuz there's no one to stop me
'Cause it makes up for things that I lost
To feel your tug at my soul,
The sting of your gaze over my face
To fail and to live long
I wasn’t always a monster, I was a saint.
Now, so broken, so,
Addicted to bad ideas & to the blood that runs from my eyes and my hands and my throat
Though I have grown older & graver, the great heart of the world remains ever young. I wasn’t always a monster, I was a prince.
Now, so broken, so.
Because I can
'Cause no one can stop me
'Cause it makes up for things I lost
Because I'm addicted to bad ideas and all the beauty in this world
Now, so broken, so,
Addicted to bad ideas & to drugs & to all the beauty in this world, I know
Though I have grown older & graver, the great heart of the world remains ever young.
I wasn’t always a monster, I was a prince.
Now, so broken, so.
I wasn’t always a monster, I was a saint.
Now, forgotten, so,
Addicted to bad ideas & to the blood that runs from my eyes and my hands and my throat
Though I have grown older & graver, the great heart of the world remains ever young.
I wasn’t always a monster, I was a prince.
Now, so broken, so.
Because I can, 'cuz there's no one to stop me
'Cause it makes up for things that I lost
To feel your tug at my soul,
The sting of your gaze over my face
To fail and to live long
I wasn’t always a monster, I was a saint.
Now, so broken, so,
Addicted to bad ideas & to the blood that runs from my eyes and my hands and my throat
Though I have grown older & graver, the great heart of the world remains ever young. I wasn’t always a monster, I was a prince.
Now, so broken, so.
Because I can
'Cause no one can stop me
'Cause it makes up for things I lost
Because I'm addicted to bad ideas and all the beauty in this world
Lyrics submitted by orgnizedcnfuzion
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"Though I have grown older & graver, the great heart of the world remains ever young. I wasn't always a monster, I was a prince. Now, so broken, so."
He got old, but the world still retained its beauty and magnificence. He's being remembered as a monster, when he truly wasn't and didn't want to be. He left Germany after a play he starred in was seen as too dark for Germany at the time. He returned to the U.S., broken in heart and soul.
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This song is the epitome of his morphine muddled mind, caught between self hate and love of the world around him.
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