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"
As the water drips from the sky, I start to wonder.
If I'm still alive then I have to find the answer.
Could it be that it was a dream, and I'm still beside her?
Right before my eyes such a big surprise, the water stops.
Wickedness will rain, and drown us in her.
Sorrow (in her thoughts)
If I hope to survive, I must think faster.
I'm losing ground.
Should I pull back her veil.
You had the best of me (now taste the worst).
All that glimmers is not gold.
I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness.
You had me convinced that together we would fly
Until I started scratching at the surface.
And your body is your masquerade.
Your body is an illness.
Temples crashing down all around me.
Panic clears the streets
The golden city falls.
And with it our lives go up in flames.
Should I pull back her veil.
You had the best of me (now taste the worst).
All that glimmers is not gold.
I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness.
You had me convinced that together we would fly
Until I started scratching at the surface.
And your body is your masquerade.
Your body is an illness.
(Who shall be made clear?)
(Hear them watching you, under.)
My blood runs cold.
(There's no need to fear our love.)
I feel alone from you
(Choose me or you will be left, abandoned)
(Will somebody shout? Is there anybody right?)
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Yeah!
Hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey
I pull back her veil.
You had the best of me (now taste the worst).
All that glimmers is not gold.
I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness.
You had me convinced that together we would fly
Until I started scratching at the surface.
And your body is your masquerade.
Your body is an illness.
?
I may never be the same again
(I may never be the same again)
If I'm still alive then I have to find the answer.
Could it be that it was a dream, and I'm still beside her?
Right before my eyes such a big surprise, the water stops.
Wickedness will rain, and drown us in her.
Sorrow (in her thoughts)
If I hope to survive, I must think faster.
I'm losing ground.
Should I pull back her veil.
You had the best of me (now taste the worst).
All that glimmers is not gold.
I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness.
You had me convinced that together we would fly
Until I started scratching at the surface.
And your body is your masquerade.
Your body is an illness.
Temples crashing down all around me.
Panic clears the streets
The golden city falls.
And with it our lives go up in flames.
Should I pull back her veil.
You had the best of me (now taste the worst).
All that glimmers is not gold.
I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness.
You had me convinced that together we would fly
Until I started scratching at the surface.
And your body is your masquerade.
Your body is an illness.
(Who shall be made clear?)
(Hear them watching you, under.)
My blood runs cold.
(There's no need to fear our love.)
I feel alone from you
(Choose me or you will be left, abandoned)
(Will somebody shout? Is there anybody right?)
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Yeah!
Hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey
I pull back her veil.
You had the best of me (now taste the worst).
All that glimmers is not gold.
I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness.
You had me convinced that together we would fly
Until I started scratching at the surface.
And your body is your masquerade.
Your body is an illness.
?
I may never be the same again
(I may never be the same again)
Lyrics submitted by bleekerface
A Gilded Masquerade Lyrics as written by Dennis Lavell Lee Dennis Lee
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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havent heard the song but the lyrics are badass!!!!
beautiful
amazingly true statement ^ c:
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hey, some lines are wrong.
Should I pull back her veil? You had the best of me, now taste the worst All that glimmers is not gold I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness You had me convinced that together we could fly Until I started scratching at the surface And your body is your masquerade Your body is an illness
All shall be revealed We'll be watching you farther My blood runs cold There's no need to feel alone I feel alone but strong
Ahh, okay. I edited it. thanks by the way that sounds way better.
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Some lyrics are still wrong:
"Right before my eyes, such a big surprise..." should be... "Right before my eyes, a tragic surprise..."
"And your body is a masquerade..." should be... "And I saw beyond your masquerade..."
"Who shall be made clear?" should be... "All shall be made clear"
Almost the entire part after that is wrong as well... It should be...
(We've been watching you, wanderer) My blood runs cold (There's no need to run furthur) I fear I know the truth (Come into our arms, brother) I tear back the cowl and stare into my own eyes (Now we can be one forever) Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?
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I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness. You had me convinced that together we would fly
This part sounds like the lust circle to me.