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"
Red lights
Stone walls
Rise above our heads
Golden sight
Ray of light
across the room
The sun makes
its way in
destined to
wake
You're in my
sight again
Faithful guide
of vanity
here we stand
among the others
From within
hall of the
dead!
Makes them going through
the room with white lights
Push forward
Lifeless body at the sign
lay around us
listening above us
Over our heads
they all lay
listening
lifted above us
We must be this band
Of the needy king
Don't look at the sun
Stone walls
Rise above our heads
Golden sight
Ray of light
across the room
The sun makes
its way in
destined to
wake
You're in my
sight again
Faithful guide
of vanity
here we stand
among the others
From within
hall of the
dead!
Makes them going through
the room with white lights
Push forward
Lifeless body at the sign
lay around us
listening above us
Over our heads
they all lay
listening
lifted above us
We must be this band
Of the needy king
Don't look at the sun
Lyrics submitted by helioscore, edited by emberobin
Hall Of The Dead Lyrics as written by Aaron Turner Aaron Harris
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I agree with deeco's fix. It definitely is, at the very least, "deathly decay. Don't look back, press on."
My opinion also: Instead of: The sun makes its way in destined to wake
I think it should be: "wane."
I think the meaning has to do with how we are destined to die.
The above quote would suggest, a ray of hope shines in, that we all can see, but it is all in vain. Because that hope is destined to fail us. Because no matter how many meds we take, how much we exercise, or how much vegetables we eat a day: we will die.
We live in the hall of the dead.
But the last portion is the most important, because even though the dead is listening in above us, and they all lay around us, we must be this band of humans, who march on.
Even though we are sickly, death-ridden beings, we must press on, and never look back. Perhaps ignorant(?) because there is no point in dwelling on the mere fact that we are living a cursed life in the hall of the dead.
The great stone walls rise above our heads. Cold and sad pale light, a dusty veil. The sun makes its way in destitute.
Weak, you're at my side again Faithful guide unfailing. Here we stand among the others, the living among the dead!
Veins still flowing, full lungs filled with white light. Push forward lifeless bodies, swept aside, they are on us.
Cast a net of armor over our heads, hide our life, lest it be lifted from us. We must leave this place of deathly decay Don't look back, press on.
I believe the section "we must be this band..." up to the end should be "We must leave this land, Of Deathly Decay. Don't look back, press on."