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"
Take my hand I'm waiting
The smell of piss is suffocating
(They) pray to God
no he won't save them
Though the alleys hide us
The diseased they thought they killed
Are coming back to make us pay well
I'm not ready you're still mine, love
They're closing in
We'll never make it
I thought we'd die in our sleep
not face down in the streets
Their rotten arms stretch for blood
I pray they'll never catch us
Cause they don't die, they don't sleep
Oh no help is on the way
Witness city streets ablaze
Don't trust a soul but me now lovely
Don't cry, your mom and dad are fine
They're off to heaven safe and sound well
Hell on Earth,
It still surrounds us
Don't let go
I know we'll make it
I thought we'd die in our sleep, not face down in the streets
Their rotten arms stretch for blood
I pray they'll never catch us
Cause they don't die, they don't sleep
What have we done?
We left them for dead, look what they've become
Flesh hungry, vicious
Please don't slow down
if we don't make it out
God I swear I loved you
I thought we'd die in our sleep, not face down in the streets
Their rotten arms stretch for blood, I pray they'll never catch us
Cause they don't die, they don't sleep
The smell of piss is suffocating
(They) pray to God
no he won't save them
Though the alleys hide us
The diseased they thought they killed
Are coming back to make us pay well
I'm not ready you're still mine, love
They're closing in
We'll never make it
I thought we'd die in our sleep
not face down in the streets
Their rotten arms stretch for blood
I pray they'll never catch us
Cause they don't die, they don't sleep
Oh no help is on the way
Witness city streets ablaze
Don't trust a soul but me now lovely
Don't cry, your mom and dad are fine
They're off to heaven safe and sound well
Hell on Earth,
It still surrounds us
Don't let go
I know we'll make it
I thought we'd die in our sleep, not face down in the streets
Their rotten arms stretch for blood
I pray they'll never catch us
Cause they don't die, they don't sleep
What have we done?
We left them for dead, look what they've become
Flesh hungry, vicious
Please don't slow down
if we don't make it out
God I swear I loved you
I thought we'd die in our sleep, not face down in the streets
Their rotten arms stretch for blood, I pray they'll never catch us
Cause they don't die, they don't sleep
Lyrics submitted by mike
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