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"
My heart is shifting
Back to the one who's calling out to me
She ties a tourniquet around my neck
Cold embrace but warm caress
My home was never so sweet
And I will swallow
Each pill she gives me helps to ease the pain
She'll take a piece of me and eat it raw
Been away for far too long
Return the dirt to the weeds
Though I'm down, down, down
It picks her up, up, up
I want it now, now, now
I'm out of luck, luck, luck
What have you done to comfort me?
What have you done but make me bleed?
You've come so close to burying me
My one and only
My emptiness
My eyes are open
But she won't let me go so easily
I cannot trust the words that come from my mouth
Enemy from the inside out
I'll learn to love my defeat
Though I'm down, down, down
It picks her up, up, up
I want it now, now, now
I'm out of luck, luck, luck
What have you done to comfort me?
What have you done but make me bleed?
You've come so close to burying me
My one and only
My emptiness
I let you hold me down
Let you restrain me
I sink into the ground
It overtakes me
I've lost what you have found
You slowly change me
I will remove my crown
Let you invade me
What have you done to comfort me?
What have you done but make me bleed?
You've come so close to burying me
My one and only
My emptiness
What have you done to comfort me?
What have you done but make me bleed?
You've come so close to burying me
My one and only
My emptiness
Back to the one who's calling out to me
She ties a tourniquet around my neck
Cold embrace but warm caress
My home was never so sweet
And I will swallow
Each pill she gives me helps to ease the pain
She'll take a piece of me and eat it raw
Been away for far too long
Return the dirt to the weeds
Though I'm down, down, down
It picks her up, up, up
I want it now, now, now
I'm out of luck, luck, luck
What have you done to comfort me?
What have you done but make me bleed?
You've come so close to burying me
My one and only
My emptiness
My eyes are open
But she won't let me go so easily
I cannot trust the words that come from my mouth
Enemy from the inside out
I'll learn to love my defeat
Though I'm down, down, down
It picks her up, up, up
I want it now, now, now
I'm out of luck, luck, luck
What have you done to comfort me?
What have you done but make me bleed?
You've come so close to burying me
My one and only
My emptiness
I let you hold me down
Let you restrain me
I sink into the ground
It overtakes me
I've lost what you have found
You slowly change me
I will remove my crown
Let you invade me
What have you done to comfort me?
What have you done but make me bleed?
You've come so close to burying me
My one and only
My emptiness
What have you done to comfort me?
What have you done but make me bleed?
You've come so close to burying me
My one and only
My emptiness
Lyrics submitted by hersoftestsoul
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