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 am uncommon sense close to abandonment
Learning discerning the difference between do or die
Each step taken away from a place of hopelessness
Takes me closer to building another kind of family nest
There is no inclusion for those stigmatized
Nobody close to us ever recognized
Only exclusion for us out there
Only delusion of those in despair
Uncommon sense
So beautifully dressed
In a moment of realness
I feel I could be fearless
Destitute, out on my own
I had to run this far from home
The children of the damaged have no time
My new friends are like-minded
It's a mechanism of surviving here
The children of God, the children of LeBeija
Found a place to express my soul
Won't go on living in the shadow's hold
So I'm going to the ball to get my prize
Expensive things are the cheapest thrill
No such thing as overkill
Will we live on? The children of LeBeija
There is no inclusion for those stigmatized
Nobody close to us ever recognized
Only exclusion for us out there
Only delusion of those in despair
If Paris is burning, then just let it burn
The youth are very discerning
Do you tear it apart?
You can't stop the children
It's easy to mock
This form of survival instinct
Why should I stop?
I am uncommon sense so beautifully dressed
My mother's mistake, my father's heartbreak
Your birds of the flightless become birds of paradise
And the practice of realness feels so surreal
Learning discerning the difference between do or die
Each step taken away from a place of hopelessness
Takes me closer to building another kind of family nest
There is no inclusion for those stigmatized
Nobody close to us ever recognized
Only exclusion for us out there
Only delusion of those in despair
Uncommon sense
So beautifully dressed
In a moment of realness
I feel I could be fearless
Destitute, out on my own
I had to run this far from home
The children of the damaged have no time
My new friends are like-minded
It's a mechanism of surviving here
The children of God, the children of LeBeija
Found a place to express my soul
Won't go on living in the shadow's hold
So I'm going to the ball to get my prize
Expensive things are the cheapest thrill
No such thing as overkill
Will we live on? The children of LeBeija
There is no inclusion for those stigmatized
Nobody close to us ever recognized
Only exclusion for us out there
Only delusion of those in despair
If Paris is burning, then just let it burn
The youth are very discerning
Do you tear it apart?
You can't stop the children
It's easy to mock
This form of survival instinct
Why should I stop?
I am uncommon sense so beautifully dressed
My mother's mistake, my father's heartbreak
Your birds of the flightless become birds of paradise
And the practice of realness feels so surreal
Lyrics submitted by smallwonderrobot
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