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"
Delphi it drew us
Over the touchscreen
Delphi it threw us
Up like a stone
In sheep's clothing
Instrumental
The gods that roil
Inside of us
As she whistles her sweet oracles
Out by the poolside, ravings of suicide
As Athens is burning
Plots and visions, empty amber bottle
Opiate, the sky is blue today
Gone tomorrow, Castalian spring
Watching clouds
Amalia nods
Shield shroud
Amalia nods
Watching clouds
Amalia nods
Shield shroud
Amalia nods
Watching clouds
Amalia nods
Of moonbeams sacramental
Poolside
The cigarette smoke
That gyres up like prophecies
Glyph in
Dragging blood
Amalia swaying
Through the
Hotel corridors
Shuffling through the thousand
Years
Oracular and wandering
Over the touchscreen
Delphi it threw us
Up like a stone
In sheep's clothing
Instrumental
The gods that roil
Inside of us
As she whistles her sweet oracles
Out by the poolside, ravings of suicide
As Athens is burning
Plots and visions, empty amber bottle
Opiate, the sky is blue today
Gone tomorrow, Castalian spring
Watching clouds
Amalia nods
Shield shroud
Amalia nods
Watching clouds
Amalia nods
Shield shroud
Amalia nods
Watching clouds
Amalia nods
Of moonbeams sacramental
Poolside
The cigarette smoke
That gyres up like prophecies
Glyph in
Dragging blood
Amalia swaying
Through the
Hotel corridors
Shuffling through the thousand
Years
Oracular and wandering
Lyrics submitted by sokorny, edited by silverspawn
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Delphi it drew us Delphi it threw us As she whistles her sweet Oracles As Athens is Burning Castalian Spring Oracular and Wandering
(The Castalian Spring is the ravine where visitor washed themselves before consulting the oracle).
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"Plots and visions, empty amber bottle Opiate, the sky is blue today Amalia nods Glyph in Dragging blood Amalia swaying"
I believe heroin users will typically insert the needle into their arm and draw blood into the syringe before injecting it, thus "dragging blood". Nodding and swaying will be physical tells that she's high.
Additionally the lyric book has a pattern of syringes in the background.
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