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"
Got a red eye on
Got a red eye on
I've got a red eye on
Gonna bring it on like a war machine
When it hits your like a wave
You're not gonna feel the pain
So stand and face the ray like a war machine
You gonna give me your heeey
You gonna give me your HEEEEY
You wanna play this game
You can face the pain like a war machine
Сoming through life
We're coming though life... hey
Coming through life like a war machine
Coming like a machine
Chasing the hatching door
'Cause we ain't gonna run no more
Like a machine
This time I won't let go
Either step up or hit the floor
Coming like a machine
And we might rock the party
But we ain't gonna hurt nobody
Like a machine
Step up and hear no more
Look up and see the marching saw
You could see it rise
But you never hear it fall
But you could see it's eyes
Where it stars to rise like a war machine
When it a hits your like awaits
You not gonna feel the pain
So standing face the way like a war machine
You gonna give me your heeey
You gonna give me your HEEEEY
You wanna play this game
You can face the pain like a war machine
Сoming through that
We're coming though that... hey
Coming through that... like a war machine
Coming like a machine
Chasing the hatching door
'Cause we ain't gonna run no more
Like a machine
This time I won't let go
Either step up or hit the floor
Coming like a machine
And we might rock the party
But we ain't gonna hurt nobody
Like a machine
Step up and hear no more
Look up and see the marching saw
This slumber that I'm in
Can't find the feeling that I've been
I've been... feeling
Because now the time is gone
So work the line and come undone
I will... Oh I will
And I am not afraid
Of the power you contain
And I am not ashamed
Cause the choose defeats the pain
Coming like a machine
Chasing the hatching door
'Cause we ain't gonna run no more
Like a machine
This time I won't let go
Either step up or hit the floor
Coming like a machine
And we might rock the party
But we ain't gonna hurt nobody
Like a machine
Step up and hear no more
Look up and see the marching saw
Got a red eye on
I've got a red eye on
Gonna bring it on like a war machine
When it hits your like a wave
You're not gonna feel the pain
So stand and face the ray like a war machine
You gonna give me your heeey
You gonna give me your HEEEEY
You wanna play this game
You can face the pain like a war machine
Сoming through life
We're coming though life... hey
Coming through life like a war machine
Coming like a machine
Chasing the hatching door
'Cause we ain't gonna run no more
Like a machine
This time I won't let go
Either step up or hit the floor
Coming like a machine
And we might rock the party
But we ain't gonna hurt nobody
Like a machine
Step up and hear no more
Look up and see the marching saw
You could see it rise
But you never hear it fall
But you could see it's eyes
Where it stars to rise like a war machine
When it a hits your like awaits
You not gonna feel the pain
So standing face the way like a war machine
You gonna give me your heeey
You gonna give me your HEEEEY
You wanna play this game
You can face the pain like a war machine
Сoming through that
We're coming though that... hey
Coming through that... like a war machine
Coming like a machine
Chasing the hatching door
'Cause we ain't gonna run no more
Like a machine
This time I won't let go
Either step up or hit the floor
Coming like a machine
And we might rock the party
But we ain't gonna hurt nobody
Like a machine
Step up and hear no more
Look up and see the marching saw
This slumber that I'm in
Can't find the feeling that I've been
I've been... feeling
Because now the time is gone
So work the line and come undone
I will... Oh I will
And I am not afraid
Of the power you contain
And I am not ashamed
Cause the choose defeats the pain
Coming like a machine
Chasing the hatching door
'Cause we ain't gonna run no more
Like a machine
This time I won't let go
Either step up or hit the floor
Coming like a machine
And we might rock the party
But we ain't gonna hurt nobody
Like a machine
Step up and hear no more
Look up and see the marching saw
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