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 wanna take down who's in power
Like ground zero
Two twin towers
The president was a coward
Trying to take what's ours
Spend money on wars
Watch bullets get showered
But things ain't gonna change in a matter of hours
Until we turn up at the White House
Whole crowds of us
These suits & ties couldn't walk in our trousers - nah
It's riot gear when they surround us
I'm a pioneer
Hacktivist - we are the founders
The sound of twenty five thousand voices raised in anger
If only you could see it from our angle
Another budget cut
Another community centre shut
Dismantled
The system over-run by the power of the gun
Families bleed left with no-one
It's time for change
Time to elevate to a higher place
This world's gone insane
What happened to the right side of the brain?
This mask covers our face
Stand up and say goodbye to this daylight robbery of lives
The elite gotta do their time
Set 'em up for the firing line
Too quick to point the finger
Too quick to pull the trigger
Slaughter the innocent
I see no sense
We fight fire with fire
We won't burn
A middle finger for liars that won't learn
We stand firm
There's strength in numbers
We're ninety nine, they're one
For the suits up high there's no-where to hide or run
We flow through the streets like blood
Hats down, hoods up
The system's fucked
What I see is corrupt
Learn who to trust
H won't give up
They don't move in our circle
Stand up & listen
We're breaking the rules
Never fall, stay strong
Eternal inferno
We stand tall raising a torch
Coz we got that lyrical force for the side that you walk
Bodies lined out in chalk for supporting the cause
We settle the score
Fight! Coz this is our war
We fight fire with fire
We won't burn
A middle finger for liars that won't learn
We stand firm
We will stand firm
The system's over-run by the power of the gun
Families bleed left with no-one
It's time for change, time to elevate to a higher place
The world's gone insane
What happened to the right side of the brain?
Straight
Systems over-run by the power of the gun
Families bleed left with no-one
It's time for change, time to elevate to a higher place
The world's gone insane
What happened to the right side of the brain?
Like ground zero
Two twin towers
The president was a coward
Trying to take what's ours
Spend money on wars
Watch bullets get showered
But things ain't gonna change in a matter of hours
Until we turn up at the White House
Whole crowds of us
These suits & ties couldn't walk in our trousers - nah
It's riot gear when they surround us
I'm a pioneer
Hacktivist - we are the founders
The sound of twenty five thousand voices raised in anger
If only you could see it from our angle
Another budget cut
Another community centre shut
Dismantled
The system over-run by the power of the gun
Families bleed left with no-one
It's time for change
Time to elevate to a higher place
This world's gone insane
What happened to the right side of the brain?
This mask covers our face
Stand up and say goodbye to this daylight robbery of lives
The elite gotta do their time
Set 'em up for the firing line
Too quick to point the finger
Too quick to pull the trigger
Slaughter the innocent
I see no sense
We fight fire with fire
We won't burn
A middle finger for liars that won't learn
We stand firm
There's strength in numbers
We're ninety nine, they're one
For the suits up high there's no-where to hide or run
We flow through the streets like blood
Hats down, hoods up
The system's fucked
What I see is corrupt
Learn who to trust
H won't give up
They don't move in our circle
Stand up & listen
We're breaking the rules
Never fall, stay strong
Eternal inferno
We stand tall raising a torch
Coz we got that lyrical force for the side that you walk
Bodies lined out in chalk for supporting the cause
We settle the score
Fight! Coz this is our war
We fight fire with fire
We won't burn
A middle finger for liars that won't learn
We stand firm
We will stand firm
The system's over-run by the power of the gun
Families bleed left with no-one
It's time for change, time to elevate to a higher place
The world's gone insane
What happened to the right side of the brain?
Straight
Systems over-run by the power of the gun
Families bleed left with no-one
It's time for change, time to elevate to a higher place
The world's gone insane
What happened to the right side of the brain?
Lyrics submitted by Defsanj
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