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"
Beware the General
His army comes to call on the dawn
Behold the conqueror
The universe will suffer darkness
Face your death with pride, he will watch it and smile
And feel good inside
Senseless running is, he'll rip you apart
With eyes as bright as stars, he will slaughter you all
Without remorse
He'll swim in the flood, sustenance is blood
There's no end to the night, forfeit your life
Hunger for the dark
Striking for the heart, blackened from the start
His evil crawls into your mind
Sending shivers down your spine
He is the night
Insane, his primal instinct compels him to destroy
He bleeds the ominous, the power he displays is infernal
As fallow death he comes, the mountainside will shake with his might
Crush your soul to ash, no escaping his wrath
He's built to last
Clasping at your soul, he'll swallow you whole
Pain will make him soar, he's impenetrable
In time of war
Terror blinding your sight, paralysed by the fight
He's master of all, the dark general
Hunger for the dark
Striking for the heart, blackened from the start
His evil crawls into your mind
Sending shivers down your spine
He is the night
Stone the innocents, know they deserve it
Rejoice in carnage, know they deserve it
Mark my words, retribution will never come
Hunger for the dark
Striking for the heart, blackened from the start
His evil crawls into your mind
Sending shivers down your spine
He is the night
His army comes to call on the dawn
Behold the conqueror
The universe will suffer darkness
Face your death with pride, he will watch it and smile
And feel good inside
Senseless running is, he'll rip you apart
With eyes as bright as stars, he will slaughter you all
Without remorse
He'll swim in the flood, sustenance is blood
There's no end to the night, forfeit your life
Hunger for the dark
Striking for the heart, blackened from the start
His evil crawls into your mind
Sending shivers down your spine
He is the night
Insane, his primal instinct compels him to destroy
He bleeds the ominous, the power he displays is infernal
As fallow death he comes, the mountainside will shake with his might
Crush your soul to ash, no escaping his wrath
He's built to last
Clasping at your soul, he'll swallow you whole
Pain will make him soar, he's impenetrable
In time of war
Terror blinding your sight, paralysed by the fight
He's master of all, the dark general
Hunger for the dark
Striking for the heart, blackened from the start
His evil crawls into your mind
Sending shivers down your spine
He is the night
Stone the innocents, know they deserve it
Rejoice in carnage, know they deserve it
Mark my words, retribution will never come
Hunger for the dark
Striking for the heart, blackened from the start
His evil crawls into your mind
Sending shivers down your spine
He is the night
Lyrics submitted by Ashram
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