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"
Messengers always told me that I had to have a plan
But their visions off and they don’t understand
The little Hitler’s of the forgotten love
They’ll shoot you right in your face and watch you spill your blood
And you tell me that I’m the one who needs to have a plan
Tie me to the road, and watch my hands bleed
Pin me to a cross, and crucify me
Drag me through the dirt, of guilt and envy
Open up your eyes, and you will see
You’re not a saviour or a saint,
Well then,
Who are you to me?
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
Mother why do you believe it will always be ok?
Another wishful dream that you believe
And what we have here, is people selling fear
It’s a joke by now, we’ve become not clear
And you tell me that I’m the one who needs to have a plan
Television plays, effected my mind
Channels all the same, or am I blind?
Imagination is, it’s just a figment
Of reality, when will you see?
You’re not a saviour or a saint,
Well then,
Who are you to me?
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
-rock ooooout with your cock out-
Take a look at yourself
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help
But their visions off and they don’t understand
The little Hitler’s of the forgotten love
They’ll shoot you right in your face and watch you spill your blood
And you tell me that I’m the one who needs to have a plan
Tie me to the road, and watch my hands bleed
Pin me to a cross, and crucify me
Drag me through the dirt, of guilt and envy
Open up your eyes, and you will see
You’re not a saviour or a saint,
Well then,
Who are you to me?
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
Mother why do you believe it will always be ok?
Another wishful dream that you believe
And what we have here, is people selling fear
It’s a joke by now, we’ve become not clear
And you tell me that I’m the one who needs to have a plan
Television plays, effected my mind
Channels all the same, or am I blind?
Imagination is, it’s just a figment
Of reality, when will you see?
You’re not a saviour or a saint,
Well then,
Who are you to me?
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
-rock ooooout with your cock out-
Take a look at yourself
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just,
Look inside the mirror and
Tell me what you see
(Take a look at yourself)
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help just
I can’t help you,
You don’t stand a chance to make it
If you really want help
Lyrics submitted by sleepstudent101
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Messengers always told me that I had to have a plan But their visions off and they don’t understand
people always tell him he needs a plan but they arent him and don't know how he wants to run his life
The little Hitler’s of the forgotten love They’ll shoot you right in your face and watch you spill your blood And you tell me that I’m the one who needs to have a plan
Lovers are breaking eachothers hearts and not doing anything about it when they see that the one they once loved is heartbroken and he thinks they need a plan more than him.
Tie me to the road, and watch my hands bleed Pin me to a cross, and crucify me Drag me through the dirt, of guilt and envy Open up your eyes, and you will see
You’re not a saviour or a saint, Well then, Who are you to me?
(Take a look at yourself)
people always dwell on his mistakes and put him down for it, but they never look at their own.
I can’t help you, You don’t stand a chance to make it If you really want help just, Look inside the mirror and Tell me what you see
(Take a look at yourself)
they finally realize that they have mistakes too and hes telling them its too late
Mother why do you believe it will always be ok? Another wishful dream that you believe
mothers always seem to think that everything will work out for the better, but in reality, that doesn't always happen.
And what we have here, is people selling fear It’s a joke by now, we’ve become not clear And you tell me that I’m the one who needs to have a plan
Television plays, effected my mind Channels all the same, or am I blind? Imagination is, it’s just a figment Of reality, when will you see?
the tv seem to be a big influence in todays society, and a lot of the channels play the same sort of stuff. imagination isn't real, cuz nobody has it.
i dont know y this song aint on underclass hero, its such an awsum song, better than 'No apolagies"
It actually is on Underclass Hero, but it's a bonus track, meaning you have to buy the whole album to get it. Anyways, I love this song, I have since the album came out