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 know that you're afraid
I'm afraid of the same thing
Listen now wherever you are
I am meant to stand in the light
Listen now wherever you are
I am meant to stand in the light
Night, insidious night
Stretching your mighty claws
Through eerie floodlights
Sight, oh hideous sight
And such a putrid smell
A glance into black hell
Light, mysterious light
Shadow eyes haunting me
Feeding on my sanity
Listen now wherever you are
I'm the soul that you will never take
Cause I am meant to stand in the light
Bloody hands remind me of battles I won
I'm the voice that you cannot erase
I'm the fighter you will not enslave
I know we connect in wicked ways
(But I'm) never coming back
It's freedom I crave
Night, oh devious night
Like a fly in spider's nest
Memory I detest
Flight, delirious flight
I dream in morning light
In sleep I am awake
Fright, invisible fright
I guess you thought you'd win
But I never gave myself in
Hey now whoever you are
Do you still remember my cold blade?
Now I see why you came to me
It's the kind of fate I don't wish to escape
It's the love that you can't erase
The survivor you will not forget
Liberated from your wicked ways
Never looking back, it's freedom I crave
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
On Earth, as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
Leave the light on (Breath, breathe)
Leave the light on (Breath, breathe)
Leave the light on (Breath, breathe)
Leave the light on (leave the light on)
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those that trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
Leave the light on (Breath, breathe)
Leave the light on
And lead us not into temptation
Listen now wherever you are
I'm the soul that you will never take
Now I see why you came to me
It's the kind of fate I don't wish to escape
I'm the love that you cannot erase
The survivor you will not forget
Liberated from your wicked ways
Never looking back, it's freedom I crave
I'm afraid of the same thing
Listen now wherever you are
I am meant to stand in the light
Listen now wherever you are
I am meant to stand in the light
Night, insidious night
Stretching your mighty claws
Through eerie floodlights
Sight, oh hideous sight
And such a putrid smell
A glance into black hell
Light, mysterious light
Shadow eyes haunting me
Feeding on my sanity
Listen now wherever you are
I'm the soul that you will never take
Cause I am meant to stand in the light
Bloody hands remind me of battles I won
I'm the voice that you cannot erase
I'm the fighter you will not enslave
I know we connect in wicked ways
(But I'm) never coming back
It's freedom I crave
Night, oh devious night
Like a fly in spider's nest
Memory I detest
Flight, delirious flight
I dream in morning light
In sleep I am awake
Fright, invisible fright
I guess you thought you'd win
But I never gave myself in
Hey now whoever you are
Do you still remember my cold blade?
Now I see why you came to me
It's the kind of fate I don't wish to escape
It's the love that you can't erase
The survivor you will not forget
Liberated from your wicked ways
Never looking back, it's freedom I crave
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
On Earth, as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
Leave the light on (Breath, breathe)
Leave the light on (Breath, breathe)
Leave the light on (Breath, breathe)
Leave the light on (leave the light on)
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those that trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
Leave the light on (Breath, breathe)
Leave the light on
And lead us not into temptation
Listen now wherever you are
I'm the soul that you will never take
Now I see why you came to me
It's the kind of fate I don't wish to escape
I'm the love that you cannot erase
The survivor you will not forget
Liberated from your wicked ways
Never looking back, it's freedom I crave
Lyrics submitted by Bullet_Wound
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