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"
Adonai, Eli, lama sabachthani?
Ever since the dawning age
All our very lives were shaped
And worshiped to our Lord
Well, heaven helped
Heaven held
Helped himself just
Helped themselves
Do what the hell they want
Until we reach the age of reason
If God is here
And God is love
Was he there when I got touched?
While I was calling out his name?
I call it real tough love
Unless you love to pick your bodies up
And tow them to the grave
Although it really isn't likely
That you exist at all
I’m asking most politely
To the one who made it all
Would you want me to
Do unto you?
What'd we do
To you too?
If what we do
Is due unto you
Everyday millions pray
To all of your different names
Shelter me from harm
Well, your earthquakes make tidal waves
Hurricanes will batter people till they starve
Yet there is no eternal reason
That wars are waged
Women raped
Children in your very shape
stripped and sold for porn
I guess disease means love
That’s why you don’t pick them bodies up
The bodies that you made
So what really is the answer
Presume that it’s your own
Because I’m asking most politely
To the one who made it up
Would you want me to
Do unto you?
What'd we do
To you too?
If what we do
Is due unto you
What'd we do?
Why, Adonai?
Turned aside
So would you want me to
Do unto you?
What'd we do?
Would you want me to
Do unto you?
Oh, what'd we do?
Why, Adonai?
Turn aside
Ever since the dawning age
All our very lives were shaped
And worshiped to our Lord
Well, heaven helped
Heaven held
Helped himself just
Helped themselves
Do what the hell they want
Until we reach the age of reason
If God is here
And God is love
Was he there when I got touched?
While I was calling out his name?
I call it real tough love
Unless you love to pick your bodies up
And tow them to the grave
Although it really isn't likely
That you exist at all
I’m asking most politely
To the one who made it all
Would you want me to
Do unto you?
What'd we do
To you too?
If what we do
Is due unto you
Everyday millions pray
To all of your different names
Shelter me from harm
Well, your earthquakes make tidal waves
Hurricanes will batter people till they starve
Yet there is no eternal reason
That wars are waged
Women raped
Children in your very shape
stripped and sold for porn
I guess disease means love
That’s why you don’t pick them bodies up
The bodies that you made
So what really is the answer
Presume that it’s your own
Because I’m asking most politely
To the one who made it up
Would you want me to
Do unto you?
What'd we do
To you too?
If what we do
Is due unto you
What'd we do?
Why, Adonai?
Turned aside
So would you want me to
Do unto you?
What'd we do?
Would you want me to
Do unto you?
Oh, what'd we do?
Why, Adonai?
Turn aside
Lyrics submitted by mmeece26, edited by RoleMartyrX
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I'd say you nailed it. Also, Adonai is Hebrew for one of the names of God. One of the names that is used as God's name is never to be spoken by man. I think Adonai is the name, but not positive. Makes sense to use a "sacred" name in a song about challenging the existence God.
@RoleMartyrX it is a crying out many people feel and have. Why so much bas ‘if God exists’ … sadly when eve partook of the fruit of good and evil this is the fallout of God being his word. We are experiencing evil because we as mankind asked for that. <br /> <br /> Sucks but so does letting your son be the redemption for that decision.