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"
Oh, he's moving on
coming home
Oh, he's moving on
coming home
He's been away too long
Do I get any nearer
Do I get any nearer
My intention's good, unleash the beast
Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up
At least I'm trying
My mind, it tends to slip away
(This might be your last chance)
Search wisdom in a madman's gaze
Faces and places
(Far, far away)
Dark ages and pages
(It's all revealed to me)
Yet everything, it shall go down
Ages will go by
Time goes by
There's no sound
The storm's gone by
This supernova
Defines a golden age
The dawning of a second sun
Will mark my dying day
Like a rolling stone
Let your senses roam
To another world
While the chains are on
Find this precious stone
Do not wait my son
Leave this world you know
Find the key
To be free
Will it ever be the same
Their bliss is gone away
Free
It will never be the same
They are a dying race
Oh, I'm marching on
Carry on
This world will fade to grey
It's going down
Going down
Come along,
Come along with me
We leave the ashes
Come along
Just follow me
We will meet the wizard
Come along
Come along with me
He's the bearer of light
Come along
Come along with me
He's the one to believe
While I head into the storm
There's no need to walk alone
Nor will I be on my own
Cause he will be the one
I know
Entangled forevermore
These wars we fight
Conceal all light
That's what I'm here for
Oh, I wonder why
I wonder
How it all turned wrong
Somehow I fear
All magic's gone
You now conceive
[Chorus:]
This is the point of no return
Rise or fall of the old gods
This is the point of no return
Rise or fall again
I've come for blood, it's likely
That most of you despise me
The pharaoh's long gone
Now let my kingdom come
Yes, I'm the one who's sown
The seven plagues
Now grow
This deed means trouble
Make sure there's no more magic
But black magic
No one else should know
We must obstruct
Their ways discreetly
Take hold of the flame
Take part in my revenge
Now enter the storm
Take hold of the flame
And the bell chimes no more
It's time to kill the spark and
I think it's time to kill them all
Oh, watch
The trial of men has begun
It has begun
We make them believe
Our reign lasts forevermore
No guiding light
No sacred life
The secret eye knows
Wake up, my friend now
Wake up, my friend now
The second sun appears
A new breeze
A new dawn
A new day
Tell them all
[Chorus] (2x)
You think therefore you are
Now lay down your head and drowse
This silence will comfort you
So don't break this silence
We're gods on the run
We're gods on the run
I think therefore I am and
I'll enlighten you
But I fear
That it's over now
coming home
Oh, he's moving on
coming home
He's been away too long
Do I get any nearer
Do I get any nearer
My intention's good, unleash the beast
Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up
At least I'm trying
My mind, it tends to slip away
(This might be your last chance)
Search wisdom in a madman's gaze
Faces and places
(Far, far away)
Dark ages and pages
(It's all revealed to me)
Yet everything, it shall go down
Ages will go by
Time goes by
There's no sound
The storm's gone by
This supernova
Defines a golden age
The dawning of a second sun
Will mark my dying day
Like a rolling stone
Let your senses roam
To another world
While the chains are on
Find this precious stone
Do not wait my son
Leave this world you know
Find the key
To be free
Will it ever be the same
Their bliss is gone away
Free
It will never be the same
They are a dying race
Oh, I'm marching on
Carry on
This world will fade to grey
It's going down
Going down
Come along,
Come along with me
We leave the ashes
Come along
Just follow me
We will meet the wizard
Come along
Come along with me
He's the bearer of light
Come along
Come along with me
He's the one to believe
While I head into the storm
There's no need to walk alone
Nor will I be on my own
Cause he will be the one
I know
Entangled forevermore
These wars we fight
Conceal all light
That's what I'm here for
Oh, I wonder why
I wonder
How it all turned wrong
Somehow I fear
All magic's gone
You now conceive
[Chorus:]
This is the point of no return
Rise or fall of the old gods
This is the point of no return
Rise or fall again
I've come for blood, it's likely
That most of you despise me
The pharaoh's long gone
Now let my kingdom come
Yes, I'm the one who's sown
The seven plagues
Now grow
This deed means trouble
Make sure there's no more magic
But black magic
No one else should know
We must obstruct
Their ways discreetly
Take hold of the flame
Take part in my revenge
Now enter the storm
Take hold of the flame
And the bell chimes no more
It's time to kill the spark and
I think it's time to kill them all
Oh, watch
The trial of men has begun
It has begun
We make them believe
Our reign lasts forevermore
No guiding light
No sacred life
The secret eye knows
Wake up, my friend now
Wake up, my friend now
The second sun appears
A new breeze
A new dawn
A new day
Tell them all
[Chorus] (2x)
You think therefore you are
Now lay down your head and drowse
This silence will comfort you
So don't break this silence
We're gods on the run
We're gods on the run
I think therefore I am and
I'll enlighten you
But I fear
That it's over now
Lyrics submitted by TheRealLumos
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