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"
At night in the forrest of Sabrod
A tiger in search of his prey
I wonder will we be alive by the dawning of day?
Predator of godly creation
In hunger he stops at no child
Obsessed by the fever to follow the call of the wild
Take this life
And you're safe
Say goodbye for today
It's the tiger of Sabrod
And he's fighting from the heart
Will you return?
Tiger of Sabrod
Oh - Tiger of Sabrod
The eyes of the tiger are closed now
And lifeless he lies in the mud
Don't trust in your triumoh and glory
Revenge will bring blood
At night he will raise from the dead ones
And then he will search you all night and day
The wolf will still live on tomorrow - Survivors will pay!
Take this life
And you're safe
Say goodbye for today
It's the tiger of Sabrod
And he's fighting from the heart
Will you return?
Tiger of Sabrod
Oh - Tiger of Sabrod
A tiger in search of his prey
I wonder will we be alive by the dawning of day?
Predator of godly creation
In hunger he stops at no child
Obsessed by the fever to follow the call of the wild
Take this life
And you're safe
Say goodbye for today
It's the tiger of Sabrod
And he's fighting from the heart
Will you return?
Tiger of Sabrod
Oh - Tiger of Sabrod
The eyes of the tiger are closed now
And lifeless he lies in the mud
Don't trust in your triumoh and glory
Revenge will bring blood
At night he will raise from the dead ones
And then he will search you all night and day
The wolf will still live on tomorrow - Survivors will pay!
Take this life
And you're safe
Say goodbye for today
It's the tiger of Sabrod
And he's fighting from the heart
Will you return?
Tiger of Sabrod
Oh - Tiger of Sabrod
Lyrics submitted by rhitard
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At night in the forest of Sabrod A tiger in search of his prey I wonder will we be alive by the dawning of day?
Predator of godly creation In hunger he stops at no child Possessed by the fever to follow the call of the wild
Take this life When you say, Say goodbye for today
It's a tiger of Sabrod And he's fighting from the heart Will you return?
Tiger of Sabrod Oh - Tiger of Sabrod
The eyes of the tiger are close now And lifeless he lies in the mud Don't trust in your triumph and glory Revenge will bring blood
At night he will rise from the dead ones And then he will search you all night and day The wolf will still live on tomorrow - Survivors will pay!
Take this life When you say, Say goodbye for today
It's a tiger of Sabrod And he's fighting from the heart Will you return?
Tiger of Sabrod Oh - Tiger of Sabrod