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"
I refuse to remain in regrets
To pander like a slave to your wants
No contrition from me will you get
No submission to dilettantes (No)
I've existed too long in secrets
I have lived like a man confined
Epicene and elaborate
Fatalistic and resigned (No)
Passionflower
Catherine wheel
Higher power
Help me start to heal
Now I vein in the scene of sunsets
And the rain washes clean my mind
Every one of my needs will be met
Every planet will be aligned
Passionflower
Catherine wheel
Higher power
Help me start to heal
Over power all my fear
Now to power
Guide me through the realm
I refuse to remain in regret
I refuse to be left behind (No)
Passionflower
Catherine wheel
Higher power
Help me start to heal
To pander like a slave to your wants
No contrition from me will you get
No submission to dilettantes (No)
I've existed too long in secrets
I have lived like a man confined
Epicene and elaborate
Fatalistic and resigned (No)
Passionflower
Catherine wheel
Higher power
Help me start to heal
Now I vein in the scene of sunsets
And the rain washes clean my mind
Every one of my needs will be met
Every planet will be aligned
Passionflower
Catherine wheel
Higher power
Help me start to heal
Over power all my fear
Now to power
Guide me through the realm
I refuse to remain in regret
I refuse to be left behind (No)
Passionflower
Catherine wheel
Higher power
Help me start to heal
Lyrics submitted by b3ep, edited by florspring, HerpicH
B3 Lyrics as written by William Lloyd Steve Forrest
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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