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"
Stand up take a bow
You're leaving so who's laughing now?
Just yourself by yourself
No one else there's no one else
Face the end
Walk out the door
You're leaving giving up on us all
Just yourself by yourself
No one else here who can help
Now you wake up tired
So uninspired
To face the world
The world's on fire
Lay down on the floor
It's over you don't care anymore
Face yourself by yourself
No one else here who can try
Wake up wake up
To the world
The world's on fire
Where did we go wrong?
Fighting for so long
I didn't ask for this at all
When my back's against the wall
And my face painted for war
I didn't ask for this at all
You're leaving so who's laughing now?
Just yourself by yourself
No one else there's no one else
Face the end
Walk out the door
You're leaving giving up on us all
Just yourself by yourself
No one else here who can help
Now you wake up tired
So uninspired
To face the world
The world's on fire
Lay down on the floor
It's over you don't care anymore
Face yourself by yourself
No one else here who can try
Wake up wake up
To the world
The world's on fire
Where did we go wrong?
Fighting for so long
I didn't ask for this at all
When my back's against the wall
And my face painted for war
I didn't ask for this at all
Lyrics submitted by beautifulmine89
Worlds on Fire Lyrics as written by Clint Boge Benjamin James Hall
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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ps; saw these guys last night in London, just put a video of them doing this song on facebook too, my absolute favorite track of theirs :D
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