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"
This man came to me, was looking for action
Pulled out a blade to my neck
He said,” Call me the butcher cause that’s my trade
You know that I’ve come to collect”
I said hit me now and we’ll see where it leads
Cut me out if you think I will bleed
Strike me down if you think you’re a man
Cause I know that you don’t understand
Because there is no weapon, there is no blade
You wonder why I’m not afraid
There is no weapon, there is no blade
You’ll never kill Him that lives inside of me
He looked into my eyes, all he saw was conviction
Dropping the blade to the earth
I said,” How could you think that I’d ever retreat?
You know that I’m already dead”
I said hit me now and we’ll see where it leads
Cut me out if you think I will bleed
Strike me down if you think you’re a man
Cause I know that you don’t understand
Because there is no weapon, there is no blade
You wonder why I’m not afraid
There is no weapon, there is no blade
I’ve erased all of my fear of the grave
There is no weapon, there is no blade
You wonder why I’m not afraid
There is no weapon, there is no blade
You’ll never kill Him that lives inside of me
Because there is no weapon, there is no blade
You wonder why I’m not afraid
There is no weapon, there is no blade
I’ve erased all of my fear of the grave
Because there is no weapon, there is no blade
You wonder why I’m not afraid
There is no weapon, there is no blade
You’ll never kill Him that lives inside of me
Pulled out a blade to my neck
He said,” Call me the butcher cause that’s my trade
You know that I’ve come to collect”
I said hit me now and we’ll see where it leads
Cut me out if you think I will bleed
Strike me down if you think you’re a man
Cause I know that you don’t understand
Because there is no weapon, there is no blade
You wonder why I’m not afraid
There is no weapon, there is no blade
You’ll never kill Him that lives inside of me
He looked into my eyes, all he saw was conviction
Dropping the blade to the earth
I said,” How could you think that I’d ever retreat?
You know that I’m already dead”
I said hit me now and we’ll see where it leads
Cut me out if you think I will bleed
Strike me down if you think you’re a man
Cause I know that you don’t understand
Because there is no weapon, there is no blade
You wonder why I’m not afraid
There is no weapon, there is no blade
I’ve erased all of my fear of the grave
There is no weapon, there is no blade
You wonder why I’m not afraid
There is no weapon, there is no blade
You’ll never kill Him that lives inside of me
Because there is no weapon, there is no blade
You wonder why I’m not afraid
There is no weapon, there is no blade
I’ve erased all of my fear of the grave
Because there is no weapon, there is no blade
You wonder why I’m not afraid
There is no weapon, there is no blade
You’ll never kill Him that lives inside of me
Lyrics submitted by MuseAgainst
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@blondy269 Wow. Just wow! Great explanation to an impressive song! (Thanks for that blondy269)... :)