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"
Well you are a full-functioning semi automatic weapon
temper, temper,
I am the temper, temper
your family's crest
your familys nest
no it didn't fall far from the tree
oh yeah you came up on it honestly
see, I was never any good for you
I was never any good for you
I whisper softly
and looking back darling
painfully honest
I broke that promise
but misery loves company
loves history
and has a tendancy to play like a broken record
play like a broken record
you slut me into this decision
I was sound ?
willing, willing
I was limp for the taking
considering
my family's crest
my family's nest
no it didn't fall far from the tree
oh I came about it honesty
I was never any good for you
I was never any good for you
I whisper softly
and looking back darling
I'm painfully honest
I broke that promise
but history loves company
loves history
and has a tendancy to play like a broken record
play like a broken record
I play like a broken record
(play like a broken record)
temper, temper
temper, temper
(you play like a broken record)
temper, temper
temper, temper
temper, temper
temper, temper
(you play like a broken record)
temper, temper
temper, temper
temper, temper
(you play like a broken record)
temper, temper
temper, temper
(you play like a broken record)
temper, temper
I whisper softly
and looking back darling
I'm painfully honest
I broke that promise
but history loves company
loves misery
and has a tendancy to play like a broken record
play like a broken record
I play like a broken record
I play like a broken record
I play like a broken record
temper, temper,
I am the temper, temper
your family's crest
your familys nest
no it didn't fall far from the tree
oh yeah you came up on it honestly
see, I was never any good for you
I was never any good for you
I whisper softly
and looking back darling
painfully honest
I broke that promise
but misery loves company
loves history
and has a tendancy to play like a broken record
play like a broken record
you slut me into this decision
I was sound ?
willing, willing
I was limp for the taking
considering
my family's crest
my family's nest
no it didn't fall far from the tree
oh I came about it honesty
I was never any good for you
I was never any good for you
I whisper softly
and looking back darling
I'm painfully honest
I broke that promise
but history loves company
loves history
and has a tendancy to play like a broken record
play like a broken record
I play like a broken record
(play like a broken record)
temper, temper
temper, temper
(you play like a broken record)
temper, temper
temper, temper
temper, temper
temper, temper
(you play like a broken record)
temper, temper
temper, temper
temper, temper
(you play like a broken record)
temper, temper
temper, temper
(you play like a broken record)
temper, temper
I whisper softly
and looking back darling
I'm painfully honest
I broke that promise
but history loves company
loves misery
and has a tendancy to play like a broken record
play like a broken record
I play like a broken record
I play like a broken record
I play like a broken record
Lyrics submitted by paqman47
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Awesome song, definitely check out the old Louder Now demo, often titled 'Divine Intervention Demo.'
Lyrics sound mostly correct, the 2nd verse is off though. Only changes I would know is 'you -slut- me into this decision.' I'm not sure about the line that follows that, but then it's 'willing, willing.' instead of limping.
Maybe someday an incarnation of this song will actually make it on an album :)