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"
In solemn tears of man
Jerusalem
In solemn tears of man
Jerusalem
In solemn tears of man
Jerusalem
In solemn tears of man
Jerusalem
And the faces of men gather blackness
As the mountains shall all be thrown down
And more violence, raptures of his kingdom
Shall be lost and they shall not found
In the black heart of the storm
Armageddon locks the dawn
In the valley of the bones
Armageddon mines the stones
The earth shall now disclose her blood
And shall uncover all her slain
The angels now cease to restrain
And shall unleash as vengeance reigns
The wrath of God shall now descend
To spill the blood of evil men
The true Messiah is at hand
To judge the living and the dead
Wait for his Son from Heaven
Children of Armageddon
The valley of decision
The valley of decision
Time will be no more
Time will be no more
Time will be no more
Time will be no more
Apocalypse
They have rejected His mercy
Apocalypse
They have despised His love
Behold Apocalypse
They have denied His glory
Behold the Fallen?
They have abandoned His Law
And the songs of the Temple
shall be howlings in that day
Bodies shall lie in every place
And they shall cast their thought? with silence.
Not enough living to bury the dead
Not enough living to bury the dead
Not enough living to bury the dead
Not enough living to bury the dead
The voice of prayer
The sound of weeping
And lamentation fills the air
The voice of prayer
The sound of weeping
And lamentation fills the air
Unto the Kingdom of Heaven they cry
They cry.
All hands will go then
Every man’s heart will melt
Terror will seize them
Anguish will grip them
And they will writhe like a woman in labour
And they will look at each other their faces aflame
In that day, the heathen rage
In that day, the heathen rage
Rage, rage, rage, rage
And the nations come against the Lord and His anointed saying
‘Let us break their plans asunder
Let us cast away their coats from us’.
Here is the rebellion, of man at his end
Now the end of the rebellion of man shall begin
Multitudes, multitudes await
In the valley of decision
Armageddon (x11)
(trumpets)
I am God, I am Lord and
before me there is no other
There is no other
There is no other
[Radio news broadcasts in background]
Jerusalem
In solemn tears of man
Jerusalem
In solemn tears of man
Jerusalem
In solemn tears of man
Jerusalem
And the faces of men gather blackness
As the mountains shall all be thrown down
And more violence, raptures of his kingdom
Shall be lost and they shall not found
In the black heart of the storm
Armageddon locks the dawn
In the valley of the bones
Armageddon mines the stones
The earth shall now disclose her blood
And shall uncover all her slain
The angels now cease to restrain
And shall unleash as vengeance reigns
The wrath of God shall now descend
To spill the blood of evil men
The true Messiah is at hand
To judge the living and the dead
Wait for his Son from Heaven
Children of Armageddon
The valley of decision
The valley of decision
Time will be no more
Time will be no more
Time will be no more
Time will be no more
Apocalypse
They have rejected His mercy
Apocalypse
They have despised His love
Behold Apocalypse
They have denied His glory
Behold the Fallen?
They have abandoned His Law
And the songs of the Temple
shall be howlings in that day
Bodies shall lie in every place
And they shall cast their thought? with silence.
Not enough living to bury the dead
Not enough living to bury the dead
Not enough living to bury the dead
Not enough living to bury the dead
The voice of prayer
The sound of weeping
And lamentation fills the air
The voice of prayer
The sound of weeping
And lamentation fills the air
Unto the Kingdom of Heaven they cry
They cry.
All hands will go then
Every man’s heart will melt
Terror will seize them
Anguish will grip them
And they will writhe like a woman in labour
And they will look at each other their faces aflame
In that day, the heathen rage
In that day, the heathen rage
Rage, rage, rage, rage
And the nations come against the Lord and His anointed saying
‘Let us break their plans asunder
Let us cast away their coats from us’.
Here is the rebellion, of man at his end
Now the end of the rebellion of man shall begin
Multitudes, multitudes await
In the valley of decision
Armageddon (x11)
(trumpets)
I am God, I am Lord and
before me there is no other
There is no other
There is no other
[Radio news broadcasts in background]
Lyrics submitted by Zargoth
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