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"
Through dust of ages, burned into ashes of the seer
The voice of an ancient echo travels across the astral plane
Before the mark of time, before the origin of life
What was and what shall be again meet at the crossroad of the divine
Wasted in anguish, cloaked in shadowed ancestry
We stand in duality and await the arrival of the triad
Infinity arrived before us on a steed of morbid decay
and cast down on our plight, a looming desecration
He is the third, the triumvirate, his journey ends here
in our temples of atavistic separation
His mare of centuries bows and falls from its bones
into a pile of dry flesh, scoria and sinew
We are but heretics watching from the edge of the ruins
Our maligned veil enshrouds the world below
Through the corridors tide, before the light revealed out silent woe
A pleasant stillness that suffering could only reward
We drag the dogs behind us, they perished grasping our cloaks
The serpent's venom spat upon and joined the ranks of the fallen steed
We are but travelers in a lost aeon
A new dark age of malice...and divinity
The voice of an ancient echo travels across the astral plane
Before the mark of time, before the origin of life
What was and what shall be again meet at the crossroad of the divine
Wasted in anguish, cloaked in shadowed ancestry
We stand in duality and await the arrival of the triad
Infinity arrived before us on a steed of morbid decay
and cast down on our plight, a looming desecration
He is the third, the triumvirate, his journey ends here
in our temples of atavistic separation
His mare of centuries bows and falls from its bones
into a pile of dry flesh, scoria and sinew
We are but heretics watching from the edge of the ruins
Our maligned veil enshrouds the world below
Through the corridors tide, before the light revealed out silent woe
A pleasant stillness that suffering could only reward
We drag the dogs behind us, they perished grasping our cloaks
The serpent's venom spat upon and joined the ranks of the fallen steed
We are but travelers in a lost aeon
A new dark age of malice...and divinity
Lyrics submitted by PinkFloydrulez
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