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"
It's unfortunate that when we feel a stone
We can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable
Oh well, the Devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip
Love is like a sin, my love
For the ones that feel it the most
Look at her with her eyes like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you again (oh)
It's unfortunate that when we feel a stone
We can roll ourselves over when we're uncomfortable
Oh well, the Devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip (oh)
Love is like a sin, my love
For the one that feels it the most
Look at her with a smile like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you again
We can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable
Oh well, the Devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip
Love is like a sin, my love
For the ones that feel it the most
Look at her with her eyes like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you again (oh)
It's unfortunate that when we feel a stone
We can roll ourselves over when we're uncomfortable
Oh well, the Devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip (oh)
Love is like a sin, my love
For the one that feels it the most
Look at her with a smile like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you again
Lyrics submitted by justaddlyrics, edited by annafa, LordLordington, eeeeee
Paradise Circus Lyrics as written by Stewart Neville Jackson Daniel Jonathan Brown
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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"It's unfortunate that when we feel a stone, we can roll ourselves over cause we're uncomfortable" (we don't face things, we don't take risks, we do what's comfortable and unremarkable. in this case i think it refers to trading up passion for comfort.)
"OH WELL, the devil makes us sin, but we like it when we're spinning in his grip" (it will happen one way or another, despite the habit of humans to try and be safe. We enjoy the pain of seeing somebody else be happy, and enjoy the obsession of unrequited love.)
"Love is like a sin, my love" (it's LIKE a sin. it feels like wrong, the guilty pleasure... "my love" signifies everyone will do it anyway. a personal example of it i guess)
"For the one that feels it the most" (shows that one has strong feelings, and it could be seen as wrong when the other person does not want that)
"Look at her with her eyes like a flame" (Lust, Passion, Jealousy, Rage. Also has hellish/sinful connotations.)
"She loves you like a fly will never love you" (like a fly on the wall, she's looking in from the outside, again suggesting that the love is unrequited. love of this kind is easy to ignore/"roll over" to)
the music totally reflects this, there is a tension created by the bassline/drumming which is like that empty feeling in your stomach when you have this unbearable desire. the song itsself is also beautifully constructed, with this same slow build up, incredible climax, then slightly empty, disappointing ending. i want more.
just my opinion. :)