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"
Let's burn this town until we all fall down
My crime was crowned, the king of endless sound
Slaughtered inside, the daughter you can't hide
Pray for your life, before you pray for mine
When she takes a bite out
It always takes it right out of her
And when she takes a bite out
It only takes the fight out of her
Do it or die
Do it or die
Must be something in mind
Do it, do it or die
Curses will fall, the dirty of it all
And why should I care, if you were never, never there
Keep this in mind, there is no end in sight
Why am I always careful, always care, and
When she takes a bite out
It always takes it right out of her
And when she takes a bite out
It only takes the fight out of her
Do it or die
Do it or die
Must be something in mind
Do it it do it or die
Must be something on my end
Do it do it or dying
Must be something in mind
Do it do it or die
My curse and my best friend
Sometimes it weakens the end
My curse and my best friend
Sometimes it weakens the end
My curse and my best friend
Sometimes it weakens the end
My curse and my best friend
Sometimes it weakens the end
Must be something in mind
(It?s not like you ever knew)
(It?s not like you've ever known)
Must be something in mind
(It is not like you have ever known)
(It is not like you have ever known)
Do it or die
Do it or die
Must be something in mind
Do it do it or die
Must be something in my head
Do it do it or dying
Must be something in mine
Do it do it or die
My crime was crowned, the king of endless sound
Slaughtered inside, the daughter you can't hide
Pray for your life, before you pray for mine
When she takes a bite out
It always takes it right out of her
And when she takes a bite out
It only takes the fight out of her
Do it or die
Do it or die
Must be something in mind
Do it, do it or die
Curses will fall, the dirty of it all
And why should I care, if you were never, never there
Keep this in mind, there is no end in sight
Why am I always careful, always care, and
When she takes a bite out
It always takes it right out of her
And when she takes a bite out
It only takes the fight out of her
Do it or die
Do it or die
Must be something in mind
Do it it do it or die
Must be something on my end
Do it do it or dying
Must be something in mind
Do it do it or die
My curse and my best friend
Sometimes it weakens the end
My curse and my best friend
Sometimes it weakens the end
My curse and my best friend
Sometimes it weakens the end
My curse and my best friend
Sometimes it weakens the end
Must be something in mind
(It?s not like you ever knew)
(It?s not like you've ever known)
Must be something in mind
(It is not like you have ever known)
(It is not like you have ever known)
Do it or die
Do it or die
Must be something in mind
Do it do it or die
Must be something in my head
Do it do it or dying
Must be something in mine
Do it do it or die
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