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"
i wanna see you stand tall, so i can smash you down
give you a taste of the
world you thought existed in dreams.
prove your waste of existance can only
last as long as your name .
i didnt wanna have too say this
i diddent want
to make it public
i didnt wanna have too say this....
Scream at the top of
your fucking lungs, Remember my name
is that what you believe, is that what
you believe?
Life won’t wait, and neither will I
Is that what you believe,
remember my name?
I just can’t sit back and listen to the shit your calling
words,
it grinds me down
too the point I can..t even look at you no
more
nothing too give, nothing too offer nothing too live for
IM SO SICK AND SO TIRED OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU
you’ve got nothing too give, nothing too
offer
Scream at the top of your fucking lungs, Remember my name
is that
what you believe, is that what you believe?
Life won’t wait, and neither will I
Is that what you believe, remember my name?
Further along the line you
can’t escape the will of lies
the will of hate combined with love, will
destroy your life
watch the sun fade it’s like emotions that never stop
wide
eyed passion, brighter surroundings
Is this what you believe?
Scream at the
top of your fucking lungs, Remember my name
is that what you believe, is that
what you believe?
Life won’t wait, and neither will I
Is that what you believe?
Remember my name
give you a taste of the
world you thought existed in dreams.
prove your waste of existance can only
last as long as your name .
i didnt wanna have too say this
i diddent want
to make it public
i didnt wanna have too say this....
Scream at the top of
your fucking lungs, Remember my name
is that what you believe, is that what
you believe?
Life won’t wait, and neither will I
Is that what you believe,
remember my name?
I just can’t sit back and listen to the shit your calling
words,
it grinds me down
too the point I can..t even look at you no
more
nothing too give, nothing too offer nothing too live for
IM SO SICK AND SO TIRED OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU
you’ve got nothing too give, nothing too
offer
Scream at the top of your fucking lungs, Remember my name
is that
what you believe, is that what you believe?
Life won’t wait, and neither will I
Is that what you believe, remember my name?
Further along the line you
can’t escape the will of lies
the will of hate combined with love, will
destroy your life
watch the sun fade it’s like emotions that never stop
wide
eyed passion, brighter surroundings
Is this what you believe?
Scream at the
top of your fucking lungs, Remember my name
is that what you believe, is that
what you believe?
Life won’t wait, and neither will I
Is that what you believe?
Remember my name
Lyrics submitted by sepultura1987
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