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'm bleeding blind, Ah blind, Ah blind
I'm bleeding blind, Ah blind, Ah blind
Numb from, Endless pain of life,
Scraped across, The high wire knife
Life, Love and death, Are pain,
Totally different, And yet the same
Reality of, What is to be,
Fighting you, Fighting free
So tell me, What's supposed to be,
Cause there is, No choice for me
Reality of, What is to be,
Fighting you, Fighting free
Im drifting in, And out of sync,
Out of time, Out of mind
Floating through, The reasons why,
Situation, Live and die
Numb from, Endless pain of life,
Caring is the, High wire knife
Here I am, Hypnotized,
Floating through, The reasons why
Can't you see, I'm bleeding blind,
Searching on, The object find
Travel down The, Win and lose,
Derail from course, It's time to choose
All knowing, Human being,
A sight without, Even seeing
One way, Your way,
It doesn't matter, What I say
No more hesitate,
Your attempt is, Way too late
This is where we, Draw the line,
No more fucking, Living lie
Reality of, What is to be,
Fighting you, Fighting free
Reality of, What is to be,
Affecting us the, Fighting three
Nine to five, To stay alive,
Green and power, Reach and strive
Cant take this, Another day,
Pay to live, Live to pay
Stricken by, The fact of fate,
Acting on my, Choice to hate,
The mindless, Voidable situations,
Endless, Challenge confrontations
The jumping towards, Eternal haste,
Screaming out, at every face
Searching for, Your final place,
Running from the, Time you waste
Im bleeding blind, Im bleeding blind
Im bleeding blind, Im bleeding blind
Every time I wake, Every time I say
This comes to me up in my face,
Look in my eyes
Too many times I caught you staring
You want to burn me for only caring
Too many times, I caught you staring
You want to burn me, For only caring
If the sun was shining,
I could escape the shit Im stuck in
Yes today, The shit Im stuck in today
Numb from, Endless pain of life,
Scraped across, The high wire knife
Life, Love and death, Are pain,
Totally different, And yet the same
Travel down the, Win and lose,
Derail from course, It's time to choose
Floating through the, Reasons why,
Situation, Bleeding blind
Cant take this, Another day,
Pay to live, Live to pay
Reality of what, Is to be,
Fighting you, Fighting me
Stricken by, The fact of fate,
Acting on my, Choice to hate
Living on this, Chance and find
Cant you see I'm, Bleeding blind
Nine to five, To stay alive,
Green and power, Reach and strive
Cant take this, Another day,
Pay to live, Live to pay
Stricken by the, Fact of fate,
Acting on my, Choice to hate,
The mindless, Voidable situations,
Endless, Challenge confrontations
The jumping towards, Eternal haste,
Screaming out, At every face
Searching for, Your final place,
Running from the, Time you waste
Living on this, Chance and find
Cant you see, I'm bleeding blind
Im bleeding, Blind
Im bleeding, Blind
I'm bleeding blind, Ah blind, Ah blind
Numb from, Endless pain of life,
Scraped across, The high wire knife
Life, Love and death, Are pain,
Totally different, And yet the same
Reality of, What is to be,
Fighting you, Fighting free
So tell me, What's supposed to be,
Cause there is, No choice for me
Reality of, What is to be,
Fighting you, Fighting free
Im drifting in, And out of sync,
Out of time, Out of mind
Floating through, The reasons why,
Situation, Live and die
Numb from, Endless pain of life,
Caring is the, High wire knife
Here I am, Hypnotized,
Floating through, The reasons why
Can't you see, I'm bleeding blind,
Searching on, The object find
Travel down The, Win and lose,
Derail from course, It's time to choose
All knowing, Human being,
A sight without, Even seeing
One way, Your way,
It doesn't matter, What I say
No more hesitate,
Your attempt is, Way too late
This is where we, Draw the line,
No more fucking, Living lie
Reality of, What is to be,
Fighting you, Fighting free
Reality of, What is to be,
Affecting us the, Fighting three
Nine to five, To stay alive,
Green and power, Reach and strive
Cant take this, Another day,
Pay to live, Live to pay
Stricken by, The fact of fate,
Acting on my, Choice to hate,
The mindless, Voidable situations,
Endless, Challenge confrontations
The jumping towards, Eternal haste,
Screaming out, at every face
Searching for, Your final place,
Running from the, Time you waste
Im bleeding blind, Im bleeding blind
Im bleeding blind, Im bleeding blind
Every time I wake, Every time I say
This comes to me up in my face,
Look in my eyes
Too many times I caught you staring
You want to burn me for only caring
Too many times, I caught you staring
You want to burn me, For only caring
If the sun was shining,
I could escape the shit Im stuck in
Yes today, The shit Im stuck in today
Numb from, Endless pain of life,
Scraped across, The high wire knife
Life, Love and death, Are pain,
Totally different, And yet the same
Travel down the, Win and lose,
Derail from course, It's time to choose
Floating through the, Reasons why,
Situation, Bleeding blind
Cant take this, Another day,
Pay to live, Live to pay
Reality of what, Is to be,
Fighting you, Fighting me
Stricken by, The fact of fate,
Acting on my, Choice to hate
Living on this, Chance and find
Cant you see I'm, Bleeding blind
Nine to five, To stay alive,
Green and power, Reach and strive
Cant take this, Another day,
Pay to live, Live to pay
Stricken by the, Fact of fate,
Acting on my, Choice to hate,
The mindless, Voidable situations,
Endless, Challenge confrontations
The jumping towards, Eternal haste,
Screaming out, At every face
Searching for, Your final place,
Running from the, Time you waste
Living on this, Chance and find
Cant you see, I'm bleeding blind
Im bleeding, Blind
Im bleeding, Blind
Lyrics submitted by grammatico
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