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"
Not a vestige remains
Of the naive, misled girl
This place will claim your soul
Spit in your mouth
Bind and gag you
It's easy to lose your mind
Then blame it on apathy
(Denial fits you well)
The medication that you pray for
Leads back to your misery
From the cradle of emotional wounds
To the floor of physical scars
You fuck the liars who deliver nothing
Yet promise you the stars
I'll pray for endless fires for endless days
Burn this fucking place away
Burn the corpses and spit on the ashes
Of a faded memory
From perfect skin to ashen gray
There is an art to the pain of your life
With every tear that falls
It's a part of you that will forever die
It's easy to lose your mind
Then blame it on apathy
(Denial fits you well)
The medication that you pray for
Leads back to your misery
Is it worth the sin?
Does it relieve the pain?
On your knees again
Queen of the charlatans
Xanex and a loaded gun
Smut queen- watch you run
They'll shed no tears for you
They'll watch you die unloved
Search for the missing pieces
Cut away by those you trusted
There is an art to the pain of your life
With every tear that falls
It's a part of you that will forever die
It's easy to lose your mind
Then blame it on apathy
(Denial fits you well)
The medication that you pray for
Leads back to your misery
Now you're immortalized
Queen of the gutter
Relinquish yourself from live
To spite the ones that suffer
Of the naive, misled girl
This place will claim your soul
Spit in your mouth
Bind and gag you
It's easy to lose your mind
Then blame it on apathy
(Denial fits you well)
The medication that you pray for
Leads back to your misery
From the cradle of emotional wounds
To the floor of physical scars
You fuck the liars who deliver nothing
Yet promise you the stars
I'll pray for endless fires for endless days
Burn this fucking place away
Burn the corpses and spit on the ashes
Of a faded memory
From perfect skin to ashen gray
There is an art to the pain of your life
With every tear that falls
It's a part of you that will forever die
It's easy to lose your mind
Then blame it on apathy
(Denial fits you well)
The medication that you pray for
Leads back to your misery
Is it worth the sin?
Does it relieve the pain?
On your knees again
Queen of the charlatans
Xanex and a loaded gun
Smut queen- watch you run
They'll shed no tears for you
They'll watch you die unloved
Search for the missing pieces
Cut away by those you trusted
There is an art to the pain of your life
With every tear that falls
It's a part of you that will forever die
It's easy to lose your mind
Then blame it on apathy
(Denial fits you well)
The medication that you pray for
Leads back to your misery
Now you're immortalized
Queen of the gutter
Relinquish yourself from live
To spite the ones that suffer
Lyrics submitted by Sebastian1985
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