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"
Come on down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are
To where you belong
Come on down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are
To where you belong
There's nothing to fear
Your saviors are here
The ship is coming down
The ship is coming down
The ship is coming down
Coming down
Coming down
You, you look so precious
A diamond in the rough
And though you tried to escape
I'll be holding on
Holding on
Holding on
Holding on
But I can't sleep until this is done
They're in my head
They're in my soul
Come on down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are to where you belong
Come on down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are to where you belong
We are in your spirit
We're everywhere you turn
From the cover to the cover
The cover to the cover
To your lover
To your brother
To your mother
To the others
You, You look so precious
But now you've gone away
And I am falling apart
Under the waves
The waves
The waves
The waves
But I can't sleep until this is done
They're in my head
They're in my soul
Through the gates of hell
We know you
The ship is coming down
The ship is coming down
The ship is coming down
The ship is coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming
Down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are to where you belong
Come on down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are to where you belong
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are
To where you belong
Come on down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are
To where you belong
There's nothing to fear
Your saviors are here
The ship is coming down
The ship is coming down
The ship is coming down
Coming down
Coming down
You, you look so precious
A diamond in the rough
And though you tried to escape
I'll be holding on
Holding on
Holding on
Holding on
But I can't sleep until this is done
They're in my head
They're in my soul
Come on down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are to where you belong
Come on down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are to where you belong
We are in your spirit
We're everywhere you turn
From the cover to the cover
The cover to the cover
To your lover
To your brother
To your mother
To the others
You, You look so precious
But now you've gone away
And I am falling apart
Under the waves
The waves
The waves
The waves
But I can't sleep until this is done
They're in my head
They're in my soul
Through the gates of hell
We know you
The ship is coming down
The ship is coming down
The ship is coming down
The ship is coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming
Down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are to where you belong
Come on down to the other side
Come with us through the gates of hell
Where we'll drag you from where you are to where you belong
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I always seem to interpret Pendulum songs in a more dystopian light haha
for this song I always thought that the speaker/s are AI (artificial intelligence). it sounds to me like the parts with the female voice are the AI talking to the only surviving passenger of a ship, the AI being the ship itself, therefore the ship is trying to talk to the human. 'You, you are so precious, But now you've gone away, But I am falling apart, I'll get the waves' is the ship acknowledging that it is dying. the ship to me also sounds corrupted, possibly due to damage. I could go into more detail but its like, 3 am so..but reply with any questions, I will respond :)