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"
We laid our names to rest
Along the dotted line
We left our date of birth
And our history behind
We were full of life
We could barely hold it in
We were amateurs at war
Strangers to suffering
We made our families proud
But scared at the same time
We promised we’d be safe
Another lie from the front lines
Our backs against the wall
We’re surrounded and afraid
Our lives now in the hands
Of the soldiers taking aim
Our questions ricochet
Like broken satellites
How our bodies, born to heal
Become so prone to die?
Though time is ruthless
It showed us kindness in the end
By slowing down enough
A second chance to make amends
As life replayed, we heard a voice proclaim
"Lay your weapons down!
They’re calling off the war
On account of losing track
Of what we’re fighting for"
So we found our way back home
Let our cuts and bruises heal
While a brand new war began
One that no one else could feel
Our nights have grown so long
Now we beg for sound advice
"Let the brokenness be felt
'Til you reach the other side
There is goodness in the heart
Of every broken man
Who comes right up to the edge
Of losing everything he has"
We were young enough to sign
Along the dotted line
Now we’re young enough to try
To build a better life
To build a better life
Along the dotted line
We left our date of birth
And our history behind
We were full of life
We could barely hold it in
We were amateurs at war
Strangers to suffering
We made our families proud
But scared at the same time
We promised we’d be safe
Another lie from the front lines
Our backs against the wall
We’re surrounded and afraid
Our lives now in the hands
Of the soldiers taking aim
Our questions ricochet
Like broken satellites
How our bodies, born to heal
Become so prone to die?
Though time is ruthless
It showed us kindness in the end
By slowing down enough
A second chance to make amends
As life replayed, we heard a voice proclaim
"Lay your weapons down!
They’re calling off the war
On account of losing track
Of what we’re fighting for"
So we found our way back home
Let our cuts and bruises heal
While a brand new war began
One that no one else could feel
Our nights have grown so long
Now we beg for sound advice
"Let the brokenness be felt
'Til you reach the other side
There is goodness in the heart
Of every broken man
Who comes right up to the edge
Of losing everything he has"
We were young enough to sign
Along the dotted line
Now we’re young enough to try
To build a better life
To build a better life
Lyrics submitted by g0ld3n
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I was trying to make this about a married couple going through a divorce, but that "brand-new war...that no one else could feel" line really prevents me from interpreting it that way. It really sounds like it's about young adults who sign up for the military, fight in war and come home after it ends only to realize that the war really left them broken like Damaris said on January 11, 2016.
@jdpalm1981 I think you were right on the marriage & divorce interpretation. The brand new war is about them trying to get back together and fighting all over again.
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