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"
beware for lust
can't you see it brings misery?
start chasing your dreams
get a life
aint that what you want?
you better believe it
you thought about
...about quitting all
just waiting to take the fall
who would you blame for leaving this earth?
when you've felt like this since your birth
losing your self-esteem
waiting for life just to end
your living is too extreme
you thought about
...about quitting all
just waiting to take the fall
somebody told you you were useless
that's where your own world drown
no one knows who you are
now just stay down for good
you've tried to hide your best
it sucked, so fuck the rest
it made no sense to me
why is it that you can't see
you wanted to be alone
you wanted to be left alone
take your life
there's no point in waiting
take your life
just get the job done
you've tried to hide your best
it sucked, so fuck the rest
it made no sense to me
why is it that you can't see...
Fuck
somebody told you you were useless
that's where your own world drown
no one knows who you are
now just stay down for good
you're so low
low
so low
can't you see it brings misery?
start chasing your dreams
get a life
aint that what you want?
you better believe it
you thought about
...about quitting all
just waiting to take the fall
who would you blame for leaving this earth?
when you've felt like this since your birth
losing your self-esteem
waiting for life just to end
your living is too extreme
you thought about
...about quitting all
just waiting to take the fall
somebody told you you were useless
that's where your own world drown
no one knows who you are
now just stay down for good
you've tried to hide your best
it sucked, so fuck the rest
it made no sense to me
why is it that you can't see
you wanted to be alone
you wanted to be left alone
take your life
there's no point in waiting
take your life
just get the job done
you've tried to hide your best
it sucked, so fuck the rest
it made no sense to me
why is it that you can't see...
Fuck
somebody told you you were useless
that's where your own world drown
no one knows who you are
now just stay down for good
you're so low
low
so low
Lyrics submitted by Sebastian1985
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