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"
Standing on the edge of the crater
Like the prophets once said
And the ashes are all cold now
No more bullets and the embers are dead
Whispers in the air tell the tales
Of the brothers gone
Desolation, devastation
What a mess we made, when it all went wrong
Watching from the edge of the circus
For the games to begin
Gladiators draw their swords
Form their ranks for Armageddon
I'm nuclear
I'm wild
I'm breaking up inside
A heart of broken glass
Defiled
Deep inside
The abandoned child
Standing on the edge of the underworld
Looking at the abyss
And I'm hoping for some miracle
To breakout, to escape from all this
Whispers in the air tell the tales
Of a life that's gone
Desolation, devastation
What a mess we made, when it all went wrong
I'm nuclear
I'm wild
I'm breaking up inside
A heart of broken glass
Defiled
Deep inside
The abandoned child
I'm nuclear
I'm wild
I'm breaking up inside
A heart of broken glass
Defiled
Deep inside
The abandoned child
Like the prophets once said
And the ashes are all cold now
No more bullets and the embers are dead
Whispers in the air tell the tales
Of the brothers gone
Desolation, devastation
What a mess we made, when it all went wrong
Watching from the edge of the circus
For the games to begin
Gladiators draw their swords
Form their ranks for Armageddon
I'm nuclear
I'm wild
I'm breaking up inside
A heart of broken glass
Defiled
Deep inside
The abandoned child
Standing on the edge of the underworld
Looking at the abyss
And I'm hoping for some miracle
To breakout, to escape from all this
Whispers in the air tell the tales
Of a life that's gone
Desolation, devastation
What a mess we made, when it all went wrong
I'm nuclear
I'm wild
I'm breaking up inside
A heart of broken glass
Defiled
Deep inside
The abandoned child
I'm nuclear
I'm wild
I'm breaking up inside
A heart of broken glass
Defiled
Deep inside
The abandoned child
Lyrics submitted by ghostyyy, edited by yoshimaster
Nuclear Lyrics as written by Michael Gordon Oldfield
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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A hauntingly beautiful song that I've just discovered thanks to the E3 2014 trailer of the game, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
It is beautifully arrangement and mixed, with a memorable guitar solo and an amazing vocal performance.
As for the meaning, I think the anti-war message is pretty obvious, though it may have other significances.
Nevertheless it is a very strong and captivating song. Kudos!
Its my opinion. This song explain about big boss story I'm nuclear I'm wild I'm breaking up inside A heart of broken glass Defiled Deep inside The abandoned child That part of lyrics mean big boss now like wild after outer heaven destroyed by skullface. Big boss fell like he not true herself as you can see in true ending in mgs 5 tpp. And the abandoned child is chico from mgs pw. This my Opinion.
Additions : desolation devastation is mean war is everywhere and the no peace
The song is about Oldfield's Grandfather. A WW1 veteran.
"Oldfield wrote this song about his conviction that he is still living with the fallout of his grandfather's traumatic experience in the First World War. "I never knew him," he told the Daily Telegraph, "So I hired a company to find out about him. It turned out he was a great character before the war but came home a very different man. My mum was one of ten or eleven kids and all the children born after the war had problems like hers."
" I wanted to see if I could spread my senses in the place he was," Oldfield continued. "I traveled around Ypres and the battlefield museums and I saw the graves of his regiment: the Royal Munster Fusiliers. And I could feel it. Still there. It's a blessing and a curse for those of us who have this extra sensitivity." "
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A hauntingly beautiful song that I've just discovered thanks to the E3 2014 trailer of the game, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
It is beautifully arrangement and mixed, with a memorable guitar solo and an amazing vocal performance.
As for the meaning, I think the anti-war message is pretty obvious, though it may have other significances.
Nevertheless it is a very strong and captivating song. Kudos!
A hauntingly beautiful song that I've just discovered thanks to the E3 2014 trailer of the game, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
It is beautifully arrangement and mixed, with a memorable guitar solo and an amazing vocal performance.
As for the meaning, I think the anti-war message is pretty obvious, though it may have other significances.
Nevertheless it is a very strong and captivating song. Kudos!
A hauntingly beautiful song that I've just discovered thanks to the E3 2014 trailer of the game, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
It is beautifully arrangement and mixed, with a memorable guitar solo and an amazing vocal performance.
As for the meaning, I think the anti-war message is pretty obvious, though it may have other significances.
Nevertheless it is a very strong and captivating song. Kudos!
A hauntingly beautiful song that I've just discovered thanks to the E3 2014 trailer of the game, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
It is beautifully arrangement and mixed, with a memorable guitar solo and an amazing vocal performance.
As for the meaning, I think the anti-war message is pretty obvious, though it may have other significances.
Nevertheless it is a very strong and captivating song. Kudos!
A hauntingly beautiful song that I've just discovered thanks to the E3 2014 trailer of the game, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
It is beautifully arrangement and mixed, with a memorable guitar solo and an amazing vocal performance.
As for the meaning, I think the anti-war message is pretty obvious, though it may have other significances.
Nevertheless it is a very strong and captivating song. Kudos!
A hauntingly beautiful song that I've just discovered thanks to the E3 2014 trailer of the game, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
It is beautifully arrangement and mixed, with a memorable guitar solo and an amazing vocal performance.
As for the meaning, I think the anti-war message is pretty obvious, though it may have other significances.
Nevertheless it is a very strong and captivating song. Kudos!