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've got a secret," he said,
"We won't spare no people 'cause we need the souls."
This is an open invitation: you can keep their bodies, we're here for the souls
Yea,
Well God gave me very specific instructions, he said,
"Go down there and start sending roaches and floods and mass destruction."
Because he said, "They've lost the scent
And I don't even care why they didn't repent."
He said, "We need a new creation,
The system's self fulfilling,
It's about to self-destruct."
And He said, "Open up their eyes and let them know that I am very close to them now ,
And I've always known that it would come to this,
And that they finally have something very real to fear,
Because I am very, very close."
Open up their eyes and let them know
I'm very close to them, and
Nothing will be left behind, and
They've got something to fear.
God is very near.
He's got no room for your body,
but He's got a place for your soul, and You'll lose your life
And it might be a terrible blow.
He said, "Burn 'em up. Salt the earth. Do it fast. Make it hurt. Forget about salvation to get a new destination."
He said, "Melt the ice. Clean the snow. Here's a new sensation--it's called destiny, manifest."
Get 'em out of those bodies.
"We won't spare no people 'cause we need the souls."
This is an open invitation: you can keep their bodies, we're here for the souls
Yea,
Well God gave me very specific instructions, he said,
"Go down there and start sending roaches and floods and mass destruction."
Because he said, "They've lost the scent
And I don't even care why they didn't repent."
He said, "We need a new creation,
The system's self fulfilling,
It's about to self-destruct."
And He said, "Open up their eyes and let them know that I am very close to them now ,
And I've always known that it would come to this,
And that they finally have something very real to fear,
Because I am very, very close."
Open up their eyes and let them know
I'm very close to them, and
Nothing will be left behind, and
They've got something to fear.
God is very near.
He's got no room for your body,
but He's got a place for your soul, and You'll lose your life
And it might be a terrible blow.
He said, "Burn 'em up. Salt the earth. Do it fast. Make it hurt. Forget about salvation to get a new destination."
He said, "Melt the ice. Clean the snow. Here's a new sensation--it's called destiny, manifest."
Get 'em out of those bodies.
Lyrics submitted by severalwolves
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Here is a helpful comment from someone on Youtube: yr lyrics for pwnd are incorrect. buy the awesome multi-colored double disc vinyl. there's a lyrics page that comes with it.
"he said go down there and start SOME ERUPTIONS and floods..."
"foget about salvation, THEY'VE GOT A NEW DESTINATION. he said melt the ice, CLEAN THE STONE, PEEL THE SKIN, GRIND THE BONE"
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He said, "Burn 'em up. Salt the earth. Do it fast. Make it hurt. Forget about salvation, they've got a new destination
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GET EM OUT OF THOSE BODIES!
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