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"
Go Back, where you came from
your love means nothing to me
your eyes have a greedy shine
they glimmer with your hatred passion
your touch had a burning fire
to send fire through my existence
all things must come to an end
just like my life that day i died
You never gave me a last chance to say goodbye
Everything that you once loved
you can no longer call your own
Once again, im standing taller
six feet to be exact
Pay the price, you lost this time
but it’s not like you had to sacrafice
see these marks on my skin?
they are from you...
One thing you never saw because you never looked
These red rings
They were there, they were always there for you
these red halos show that i used to care
you can never love if you’ve never lost everything
I lost my heart
How can I, as a man, be forced to become
something that i once looked down upon?
I just wish that i could go on with my life
but now you talk in terms of peace and love
if you think i’ll fall for it, you’ve fallen too far because
now i know the truth behind your blackened eyes
Let me show you
in my own grave i see anger
your love means nothing to me
your eyes have a greedy shine
they glimmer with your hatred passion
your touch had a burning fire
to send fire through my existence
all things must come to an end
just like my life that day i died
You never gave me a last chance to say goodbye
Everything that you once loved
you can no longer call your own
Once again, im standing taller
six feet to be exact
Pay the price, you lost this time
but it’s not like you had to sacrafice
see these marks on my skin?
they are from you...
One thing you never saw because you never looked
These red rings
They were there, they were always there for you
these red halos show that i used to care
you can never love if you’ve never lost everything
I lost my heart
How can I, as a man, be forced to become
something that i once looked down upon?
I just wish that i could go on with my life
but now you talk in terms of peace and love
if you think i’ll fall for it, you’ve fallen too far because
now i know the truth behind your blackened eyes
Let me show you
in my own grave i see anger
Lyrics submitted by iamthenightstars
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