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"
When the walls fall around you is when you begin to find
That the depths you have found have become now too hard to climb
You reconcile your pain in the loneliest refrain
And crawl tied and bound to the one thing you can't leave behind
You can't leave behind, you can't leave behind
And start over again this insurrection
The same reflection, perpetual
And start over again and again and again and again
This insurrection
A broken voice without a word to live by
Eyes slammed shut watch the world go by
It should have been way better than this
You can't anticipate the things that you miss
And how long 'til you let it go
Master unreality nothing to show and in the end
Top of the mountain of nowhere
First in the line dying to get back there
You can't get back there
You can't get back there
And start over again this insurrection
The same reflection, perpetual
And start over again and again and again and again
This insurrection
And start over again
First in the line to catch a glimpse of the shrine
The closest we ever got to divine
Irrefutable indisputable infallible impossible to deny
Impossible to deny
And start over again
This insurrection
The same reflection, perpetual
We start over again, and again and again
This insurrection
We start over again
That the depths you have found have become now too hard to climb
You reconcile your pain in the loneliest refrain
And crawl tied and bound to the one thing you can't leave behind
You can't leave behind, you can't leave behind
And start over again this insurrection
The same reflection, perpetual
And start over again and again and again and again
This insurrection
A broken voice without a word to live by
Eyes slammed shut watch the world go by
It should have been way better than this
You can't anticipate the things that you miss
And how long 'til you let it go
Master unreality nothing to show and in the end
Top of the mountain of nowhere
First in the line dying to get back there
You can't get back there
You can't get back there
And start over again this insurrection
The same reflection, perpetual
And start over again and again and again and again
This insurrection
And start over again
First in the line to catch a glimpse of the shrine
The closest we ever got to divine
Irrefutable indisputable infallible impossible to deny
Impossible to deny
And start over again
This insurrection
The same reflection, perpetual
We start over again, and again and again
This insurrection
We start over again
Lyrics submitted by sepultura1987
Insurrection Lyrics as written by David Randall Blythe Chris Adler
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Well, I don't know. There's this line:
"When the walls fall around you is when you begin to find That the depths you have found have become now too hard to climb"
I suppose it's about when the things you used to rely on in life "fall around you", and that what you once didn't care of (the depths you have found) are now impossible to reach (have become hard to climb).
"Eyes slammed shut watch the world go by"
I think this one is about people who can't try to be open to the world, and enclose themselves into a comfortable, easy, and simple way to live, by defining only certain valors as important and by rejecting others. In such a situation if "the walls fall around you" (= the life you created yourself collapses), you're left with nothing, and the things you rejected (the depths) are now difficult to reach.
Anyway, that's all I can find, it may be totally wrong and I have no idea what the "insurrection" thing means.