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"
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most
Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world
Everybody wants to rule the world
Everybody wants to rule the world
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most
Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world
Everybody wants to rule the world
Everybody wants to rule the world
Lyrics submitted by g0ld3n, edited by MuKK, Kaiweersma
Everybody Wants to Rule the World Lyrics as written by Ian Stanley Christopher Merrick Hughes
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THIS IS MY OWN THOUGHTS OF THE LYRICS
Welcome to your life There's no turning back
( it resembles a hard choice you made and after the choice you can't go back. So you must live with it )
Even while we sleep We will find you
( it's the remorse and sadness of the choices that you made and even your dreams can't let you escape. so the remorse will always be with you )
Acting on your best behaviour
( you try so hard to live with it and try to don't let it show to your friends/Family )
Turn your back on mother nature
( you break the line of society and yourself and start to be a ''thug'' )
Everybody wants to rule the world
( deep inside you you know that you want to rule the world. to have a meaning in live)
It's my own design It's my own remorse
( it's the sadness that's controlling you. it designed you. it controls you to make bad choices )
Help me to decide Help me make the most Of freedom and of pleasure
( the sadness is talking to you and it wants you to fill up the emptiness in your heart)
There's a room where the light won't find you
( it's dark thoughts that can't be changed even by love or other things)
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down When they do I'll be right behind you
( in the end the choices that you make will lead you to your doom. but the choices also brought happines and will die with you )
So glad we've almost made it So sad they had to fade it
( you're glad that it ended. that it stopped your desire that it stopped you to rule the world. but it's sad that all the happy things will fade away)
well that was my conclusion.... Share yours !
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I havent figured out the other lyrics yet,but:
"There's a room where the light won't find you"
means that there is a time and a place/a literal "room" where Only Evil will happen to you.A point where no God and No Man can save you..where "TheLight"(All Good Things),will NOT find you,like it has done before...A point where your Greatest fears come to life and that is the Inevitable End.The Final Room.
I'll edit once I figure out the other lines but the song is Darker than people make it out to be.
would love some feedback,thanks:)
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