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"
Will You take me up to rose hill
When you lay my body low
wrap me in a flag and throw some flowers on the ground
say a few words and then let me go,
there's no need to defend my honor
or justify the life i gave
there's no need for the pictures of my happy childhood there please
don't pour salt upon my grave
i knew long ago that i would be the one
to brandish my sword should they beat those battle drums, ohhh
I stood my ground
i stood for something,
worth falling for
Ask my father to forgive me, i know he didn't understand
he worked too hard for way too many years to lose his boy in a foreign sand
there is no doubt he is angry, theres no doubt where he'll place the blame
but don't let him fall apart mama, don't let him go back to those pills
only time will ease the pain, i died a patriot a soldier just like him
fought like he taught me to until the very end, ohh
i stood my ground
i stood for something
worth falling for yeah yeah
worth falling for
i hope this war is worth dying for
i hope this war is worth dying for
i hope this war is worth dying for
Take my strips and take my medals
take my cross and these dogtags too
put em in a package stained with your tears
send em up to pennsylvania ave
my last regards to the man in charge
let him know i served my country well
yeah he was right behind me all the way to kandahar
the night my broken body fell
don't let a day go by without a peaceful prayer
for my brothers and my sisters still fighting over there
they stand their ground
they stand for something
worth falling for x2
i hope this war is worth dying for
i hope this war is worth dying for
i hpoe this war is worth dying for
When you lay my body low
wrap me in a flag and throw some flowers on the ground
say a few words and then let me go,
there's no need to defend my honor
or justify the life i gave
there's no need for the pictures of my happy childhood there please
don't pour salt upon my grave
i knew long ago that i would be the one
to brandish my sword should they beat those battle drums, ohhh
I stood my ground
i stood for something,
worth falling for
Ask my father to forgive me, i know he didn't understand
he worked too hard for way too many years to lose his boy in a foreign sand
there is no doubt he is angry, theres no doubt where he'll place the blame
but don't let him fall apart mama, don't let him go back to those pills
only time will ease the pain, i died a patriot a soldier just like him
fought like he taught me to until the very end, ohh
i stood my ground
i stood for something
worth falling for yeah yeah
worth falling for
i hope this war is worth dying for
i hope this war is worth dying for
i hope this war is worth dying for
Take my strips and take my medals
take my cross and these dogtags too
put em in a package stained with your tears
send em up to pennsylvania ave
my last regards to the man in charge
let him know i served my country well
yeah he was right behind me all the way to kandahar
the night my broken body fell
don't let a day go by without a peaceful prayer
for my brothers and my sisters still fighting over there
they stand their ground
they stand for something
worth falling for x2
i hope this war is worth dying for
i hope this war is worth dying for
i hpoe this war is worth dying for
Lyrics submitted by chocolatemoose
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i just heard this song at my 3rd cousins funeral he put it on his moms ipod on monday and on his way to school on thursday he had a car wreck and was killed. when they found the ipod he had been listening to this song was paused 30 seconds in this song has became very meaningful to me
i just heard this song at my 3rd cousins funeral he put it on his moms ipod on monday and on his way to school on thursday he had a car wreck and was killed. when they found the ipod he had been listening to this song was paused 30 seconds in this song has became very meaningful to me
"Will You take me up to rose hill When you lay my body low wrap me in a flag and throw some flowers on the ground say a few words and then let me go, there's no need to defend my honor or justify the life i gave there's no need for the pictures of my happy childhood there please don't pour salt upon my grave i knew long ago that i would be the one to brandish my sword should they beat those battle drums, ohhh "
I think this is from a soldier's p.o.v. He's saying, when he dies, just put the flag on him and bury him. He doesn't want it to go on and on. Just say a few words and let him rest in piece.
He's also saying that he did what he thought was right and hopes what he died for, was really worth dieing for.
"i stood my ground i stood for something worth falling for yeah yeah worth falling for
i hope this war is worth dying for i hope this war is worth dying for i hope this war is worth dying for "
i've seen corey alot because he tours around alot of the southern states... i think he's trying to saying our goverment is killing our soldiers by fighting a war thats not ours refering to iraq