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"
Born to push you around
Better just stay down
You pull away
He hits the flesh
You hit the ground
Mouth so full of lies
Tend to block your eyes
Just keep them closed
Keep praying
Just keep waiting
Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
But the sunshine never comes, no
No, the sunshine never comes
Push you cross that line
Just stay down this time
Hide in yourself
Crawl in yourself
You'll have your time
God I'll make them pay
Take it back one day
I'll end this day
I'll splatter color on this gray
Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel that warmth, yeah
But the sunshine never comes, no way
Love is a four letter word
And never spoken here
Love is a four letter word
Here in this prison
I'll suffer this no longer
I'll put an end to this I swear
This I swear
The sun will shine
This I swear
This I swear
This I swear
Swear to you, San Francisco
Welcome, friends, to S&M 2
A wonderful adventure
We're glad you're here to witness history with us
We're here havin' a lot of fun
And I'm gonna take a moment here to introduce
The San Francisco symphony, thank you
Thank you so much for taking the risk toplay with us
And of course, conductor Edwin Outwater here
Thank you so much, Edwin
Better just stay down
You pull away
He hits the flesh
You hit the ground
Mouth so full of lies
Tend to block your eyes
Just keep them closed
Keep praying
Just keep waiting
Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
But the sunshine never comes, no
No, the sunshine never comes
Push you cross that line
Just stay down this time
Hide in yourself
Crawl in yourself
You'll have your time
God I'll make them pay
Take it back one day
I'll end this day
I'll splatter color on this gray
Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel that warmth, yeah
But the sunshine never comes, no way
Love is a four letter word
And never spoken here
Love is a four letter word
Here in this prison
I'll suffer this no longer
I'll put an end to this I swear
This I swear
The sun will shine
This I swear
This I swear
This I swear
Swear to you, San Francisco
Welcome, friends, to S&M 2
A wonderful adventure
We're glad you're here to witness history with us
We're here havin' a lot of fun
And I'm gonna take a moment here to introduce
The San Francisco symphony, thank you
Thank you so much for taking the risk toplay with us
And of course, conductor Edwin Outwater here
Thank you so much, Edwin
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The Day That Never Comes Lyrics as written by Lars Ulrich James Alan Hetfield
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"Born to push YOU around emphasis on 'you': shows inconsistent Better just stay down" viewpoints*
"God I'll make THEM pay I thought this was about "an abusive Take it back one day" relationship." Who is "THEM?"
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