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"
Anarchy, your wish is my command
I'll free the atom from it's cell
And place it in your hand
Reach beneath my coat of winter fat
And tear my beating heart out
With the beauty and the brat
Oh love, like a falling star I fell for you
Do anything you want me to
And most of all, I'd die for you
It's true
You touch the world and all is set askew
Anarchy, my dear
The brazen and the queer
We bow before you, Anarchy, my dear
Anarchy, my dame
I quiver at your name
I bow before you, baby born in flames
I dream of days that we might share
Where god's no useless effigy, of something barely there
But all these kings become our clowns
And I will serenade the choice we made, to burn the mother down
Oh love, like a synonym defined by you
Feel hope cause I'm reminded to, by you
The fools surmise they blinded you
It's true, your love unlearned, the broken life anew
Anarchy, my dear
The brazen and the queer
We bow before you, Anarchy, my dear
Anarchy, my dame
I quiver at your name
I bow before you, baby born in flames
You coat me in blasphemy, well once I was so blind
The beauty and the spacious skies, with boundaries undefined
You whisper tunes in my ear drums as we lay here entwined
Search for love for oh so long but one day I will find
Find you!
Alright!
Anarchy, my dear
The brazen and the queer
We bow before you, Anarchy, my dear
Anarchy, my dame
I quiver at your name
I bow before thee, baby born in flames
Anarchy, my dear
The crazy and the queer
We bow before you, Anarchy my dear
Anarchy, my dame
I quiver at your name
I bow before you, baby born in flames
I'll free the atom from it's cell
And place it in your hand
Reach beneath my coat of winter fat
And tear my beating heart out
With the beauty and the brat
Oh love, like a falling star I fell for you
Do anything you want me to
And most of all, I'd die for you
It's true
You touch the world and all is set askew
Anarchy, my dear
The brazen and the queer
We bow before you, Anarchy, my dear
Anarchy, my dame
I quiver at your name
I bow before you, baby born in flames
I dream of days that we might share
Where god's no useless effigy, of something barely there
But all these kings become our clowns
And I will serenade the choice we made, to burn the mother down
Oh love, like a synonym defined by you
Feel hope cause I'm reminded to, by you
The fools surmise they blinded you
It's true, your love unlearned, the broken life anew
Anarchy, my dear
The brazen and the queer
We bow before you, Anarchy, my dear
Anarchy, my dame
I quiver at your name
I bow before you, baby born in flames
You coat me in blasphemy, well once I was so blind
The beauty and the spacious skies, with boundaries undefined
You whisper tunes in my ear drums as we lay here entwined
Search for love for oh so long but one day I will find
Find you!
Alright!
Anarchy, my dear
The brazen and the queer
We bow before you, Anarchy, my dear
Anarchy, my dame
I quiver at your name
I bow before thee, baby born in flames
Anarchy, my dear
The crazy and the queer
We bow before you, Anarchy my dear
Anarchy, my dame
I quiver at your name
I bow before you, baby born in flames
Lyrics submitted by SkitzoTeeJay
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these corrections are minuscule, but because i am mildly-OCD and bored, here are the 100% correct lyrics from off of their website.
"Anarchy, your wish is my command. I’ll free the atom from its cell and place it in your hand. Reach beneath my coat of winter fat And tear my beating heart out. WE'RE* the beauty and the brat. Oh, love.
Like a FALLEN* star, I fell for you. Do anything you want me to And most of all, I’d die for you. It’s true. You touch the world and all is set askew.
Anarchy, my dear, The brazen and the queer, We bow before you, Anarchy, my dear. Anarchy, my dame, I quiver at your name. I bow before you, baby, born in flames.
I dream of days that we might share Where God’s no useless effigy of something barely there. Let all these kings become our clowns And I will serenade the choice we made to burn the mother down. Oh, love.
Like a synonym defined by you. Feel hope ‘cuz I’m reminded to by you. The fools SURMISED they blinded you. It’s true. Your love unlearned the broken life I KNEW.
You coat me in blasphemy WHERE once I was so blind. MORE beauty THAN THEIR* spacious skies with boundaries undefined. You whisper truths in my eardrum as we lay here entwined. I’ve searched for love for oh so long but one day I will find you."