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"
And I hope you choke on your own words
You're such a fake, crying out for attention
My hands around your throat now
I won’t stop until your eyes are in the back of your head
Light’s out! Lay you to rest
Put you someplace to walk amongst the living dead
Somewhere cold a place you can call your home
How did we get this far and where do we go from here?
It’s a matter of time
Get your middle fingers up oh!
Kill kill kill
All the people who tried to hold you back
Teach you not to feel
It’s my life
Talk shit get hit
Talk talk your way out of this one and bow down
(You stand alone)
And I’m not done with you just quite yet
You're all a joke
Talk shit get hit
I’ll do whatever it takes to get the hell out of here
How did we get this far and where do we go from here?
It’s a matter of time
How did we get this far and where do we go from here?
It’s a matter of time
It's a matter of time
Oh yeah I’ve gone mad
Oh yeah I’ve gone really mad
Slow down take a moment
Slow down choose your words wisely
Cause they might be your last
Dead men’s bones!
How did we get this far and where do we go from here?
It’s a matter of time
If you want me come and find me
If you want us come and find us
You're such a fake, crying out for attention
My hands around your throat now
I won’t stop until your eyes are in the back of your head
Light’s out! Lay you to rest
Put you someplace to walk amongst the living dead
Somewhere cold a place you can call your home
How did we get this far and where do we go from here?
It’s a matter of time
Get your middle fingers up oh!
Kill kill kill
All the people who tried to hold you back
Teach you not to feel
It’s my life
Talk shit get hit
Talk talk your way out of this one and bow down
(You stand alone)
And I’m not done with you just quite yet
You're all a joke
Talk shit get hit
I’ll do whatever it takes to get the hell out of here
How did we get this far and where do we go from here?
It’s a matter of time
How did we get this far and where do we go from here?
It’s a matter of time
It's a matter of time
Oh yeah I’ve gone mad
Oh yeah I’ve gone really mad
Slow down take a moment
Slow down choose your words wisely
Cause they might be your last
Dead men’s bones!
How did we get this far and where do we go from here?
It’s a matter of time
If you want me come and find me
If you want us come and find us
Lyrics submitted by xKissxHerxBruisesx
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