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 think it's all so important
All right, it's what you say again
I know you are more than perfect
Believe and I'll believe you than.
Move back, than moving forward
Okay, there's got to be a way
Stand still, otherwise it's over
run on but don't you run away
My head is full of nothing
see the shadows passing by
one thousand diagnoses
Yeah, yeah, okay
we are here tonight
leave the world aside
I see you shining bright
Raise your hands together
Chaos all around
Why we're going down
Let's stop fearing now
Raise your hands together
All together
You say you can come with me
Don't doubt, don't you dare
Whatever's gonna happen tomorrow
with your plan we're prepared
My head is full of nothing
see the shadows passing by
one thousand diagnoses
Yeah, yeah, okay
we are here tonight
leave the world aside
I see you shining bright
Raise your hands together
Chaos all around
Why we're going down
Let's stop fearing now
Raise your hands together
We are here tonight
Raise your hands together
I see you shining bright
Raise your hands together
Chaos all around
Let's stop fearing now
All right, I'm fine, never mind
we are here tonight
leave the world aside
I see you shining bright
Raise your hands together
Chaos all around
Why we're going down
Let's stop fearing now
Raise your hands together
We are here tonight
I see you shining bright
Raise your hands together
Chaos all around
Raise your hands together
Let's stop fearing now
Raise your hands together
All together
Raise your hands together
All right, it's what you say again
I know you are more than perfect
Believe and I'll believe you than.
Move back, than moving forward
Okay, there's got to be a way
Stand still, otherwise it's over
run on but don't you run away
My head is full of nothing
see the shadows passing by
one thousand diagnoses
Yeah, yeah, okay
we are here tonight
leave the world aside
I see you shining bright
Raise your hands together
Chaos all around
Why we're going down
Let's stop fearing now
Raise your hands together
All together
You say you can come with me
Don't doubt, don't you dare
Whatever's gonna happen tomorrow
with your plan we're prepared
My head is full of nothing
see the shadows passing by
one thousand diagnoses
Yeah, yeah, okay
we are here tonight
leave the world aside
I see you shining bright
Raise your hands together
Chaos all around
Why we're going down
Let's stop fearing now
Raise your hands together
We are here tonight
Raise your hands together
I see you shining bright
Raise your hands together
Chaos all around
Let's stop fearing now
All right, I'm fine, never mind
we are here tonight
leave the world aside
I see you shining bright
Raise your hands together
Chaos all around
Why we're going down
Let's stop fearing now
Raise your hands together
We are here tonight
I see you shining bright
Raise your hands together
Chaos all around
Raise your hands together
Let's stop fearing now
Raise your hands together
All together
Raise your hands together
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Raise Your Hands Together Lyrics as written by Dave Roth Patrick Benzner
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Idk, I could be wrong. Just my guess.