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"
Crowds and torches fill the air
Surprise you're chosen, now finish it
Yell it louder really sink that point in
That sat for so long
For so long
Behind these civilized eyes
Behind these civilized eyes
Me, I'd let the panic ride and pin it on the wall
Identifying pride is the saddest of the chores
Those burning eyes indeed define a churning of the soul
Feels better to be lost, but haven't felt the choice
For so long
For so long
Behind these civilized eyes
Behind these civilized eyes
Revenge
Revenge
Revenge
Revenge
That's cold
That's cold
May your sources lead
Connecting to a ten fold
Identify your own
Fate has tortured us for too long
For so long, my demons
It's countdown for me
With blindfolds you held us
Till I found the best (revenge(
For so long my demons (revenge)
It's countdown for me (revenge)
With blindfolds you held us
Till I found the best
Surprise you're chosen, now finish it
Yell it louder really sink that point in
That sat for so long
For so long
Behind these civilized eyes
Behind these civilized eyes
Me, I'd let the panic ride and pin it on the wall
Identifying pride is the saddest of the chores
Those burning eyes indeed define a churning of the soul
Feels better to be lost, but haven't felt the choice
For so long
For so long
Behind these civilized eyes
Behind these civilized eyes
Revenge
Revenge
Revenge
Revenge
That's cold
That's cold
May your sources lead
Connecting to a ten fold
Identify your own
Fate has tortured us for too long
For so long, my demons
It's countdown for me
With blindfolds you held us
Till I found the best (revenge(
For so long my demons (revenge)
It's countdown for me (revenge)
With blindfolds you held us
Till I found the best
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here goes another one of Pete s riddles. i think this is Pete venting again. the start of the song is talking about a band that sold out. "crowds and torches" are the people watching a concert. surprised your chosen are is the band on stage surprised that many people are there to see them or a band getting a grammy. me i let the panic ride and pin it to the wall is chevelle doing things thier way and takeing the loyal fans that they have and not careing about the commercial success. "identifying pride is the saddest of chores" is them haveing pride over commercial success, its like a chore that has to be done. "with blinding folds you held us" is the music industry never giveing them thier fare sahre of the pie. but then again i can be wrong. tell me what you think.