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"
1, 2, 3
Watch me scream
Burning on the trees
In amazement
'Cause I'm on fire
Ya know?
4, 5, 6
Show ya all my tricks
Fee Fii Fo
A giant's at the door
In amazement
'Cause I'm on fire
Ooh
Ooh
'Cause I'm on fire
Can I get an amen
For all the bleeding and the prayin?
I had to struggle to be gracious
Now we can touch it
We can taste it
Can I get a little amen?
No more running from the hangman
Now I'm the pilot of this spaceship
So you can touch it
You can taste it
Taste the smoke
Taste the smoke
Taste the smoke
This is no joke
Fifteen years
Blood, sweat, and tears
And amazement
"casue I'm on fire
It's a cruel, cruel world
For good boys and girls
A hot day in heaven,
5, 6, and 7
And amazement
'Cause I'm on fire
With no hope from the devil
Can I get an amen
For all the bleeding and the prayin?
I had to struggle to be gracious
Now we can touch it
We can taste it
Can I get a little amen?
No more running from the hangman
Now I'm the pilot of this spaceship
So you can touch it
You can taste it
It'll be OK, baby
Oo, Ha
Oo, Ha
Oo, Ha
Oo, Ha
We don't run, run, run
We don't run, run, run
Can I get an amen
For all the bleeding and the prayin?
I had to struggle to be gracious
Now we can touch it
We can taste it
Can I get a little amen?
No more running from the hangman
Now I'm the pilot of this spaceship
So you can touch it
You can taste it
We don't run, run, run
We don't run, run, run
Watch me scream
Burning on the trees
In amazement
'Cause I'm on fire
Ya know?
4, 5, 6
Show ya all my tricks
Fee Fii Fo
A giant's at the door
In amazement
'Cause I'm on fire
Ooh
Ooh
'Cause I'm on fire
Can I get an amen
For all the bleeding and the prayin?
I had to struggle to be gracious
Now we can touch it
We can taste it
Can I get a little amen?
No more running from the hangman
Now I'm the pilot of this spaceship
So you can touch it
You can taste it
Taste the smoke
Taste the smoke
Taste the smoke
This is no joke
Fifteen years
Blood, sweat, and tears
And amazement
"casue I'm on fire
It's a cruel, cruel world
For good boys and girls
A hot day in heaven,
5, 6, and 7
And amazement
'Cause I'm on fire
With no hope from the devil
Can I get an amen
For all the bleeding and the prayin?
I had to struggle to be gracious
Now we can touch it
We can taste it
Can I get a little amen?
No more running from the hangman
Now I'm the pilot of this spaceship
So you can touch it
You can taste it
It'll be OK, baby
Oo, Ha
Oo, Ha
Oo, Ha
Oo, Ha
We don't run, run, run
We don't run, run, run
Can I get an amen
For all the bleeding and the prayin?
I had to struggle to be gracious
Now we can touch it
We can taste it
Can I get a little amen?
No more running from the hangman
Now I'm the pilot of this spaceship
So you can touch it
You can taste it
We don't run, run, run
We don't run, run, run
Lyrics submitted by LPodyssey07
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