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"
You rise, you fall, you're down then you rise again
What don't kill ya make you more strong
You rise, you fall, you're down then you rise again
What don't kill ya make you more strong
Rise, fall, down, rise again
What don't kill ya make you more strong
Rise, fall, down, rise again
What don't kill ya make you more strong
Through black days
Through black nights
Through pitch black insides
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred
But we die hard
The dawn, the death, the fight to the final breath
What don't kill ya make you more strong
The dawn, the death, the fight to the final breath
What don't kill ya make you more strong
Dawn, death, fight, final breath
What don't kill ya make you more strong
Dawn, death, fight, final breath
What don't kill ya make you more strong
They scratch me
They scrape me
They cut and rape me
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred
But we die hard
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Bleeding your soul in a hard luck story
Show your scars
Spilling your blood in the hot sun's glory
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred
We die hard
We die hard
We die hard
What don't kill ya make you more strong
You rise, you fall, you're down then you rise again
What don't kill ya make you more strong
Rise, fall, down, rise again
What don't kill ya make you more strong
Rise, fall, down, rise again
What don't kill ya make you more strong
Through black days
Through black nights
Through pitch black insides
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred
But we die hard
The dawn, the death, the fight to the final breath
What don't kill ya make you more strong
The dawn, the death, the fight to the final breath
What don't kill ya make you more strong
Dawn, death, fight, final breath
What don't kill ya make you more strong
Dawn, death, fight, final breath
What don't kill ya make you more strong
They scratch me
They scrape me
They cut and rape me
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred
But we die hard
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Bleeding your soul in a hard luck story
Show your scars
Spilling your blood in the hot sun's glory
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred
We die hard
We die hard
We die hard
Lyrics submitted by Phonejack, edited by mikema, ExitLight7
Broken, Beat & Scarred Lyrics as written by Lars Ulrich James Alan Hetfield
Lyrics © Word Collections Publishing
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