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"
Dear God
Adjust my dreams for me
All I learned is instant history
Is this how
The surface will break?
Releasing the pressure
The horrors that await
Hell hath no fury like a human born
Its only real if you can't replace it
And now I'm losing all control
Why do I fear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
I love the sound when it breaks
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
Dear God
We're shouting in the streets
'Cause all our love is instant history
We could go
To any time or place
But the history's a nightmare
I'm sure we'll awake
I got a fever in my bones
Gets me so high that I can taste it
And now I'm losing all control
Why do I fear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
I love the sound when it breaks
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
Hell hath no fury like a human born
Its only real if you can't replace it
And now I'm losing all control
Why do I fear it?
This is the sound that we make
We only exist in the noise that we bring
This is the sound that we make
And we can't unlearn what we've learned
I love the sound when it breaks
We try to position our waves on a string
This is the sound that we make
And we can't hear what we've heard
Adjust my dreams for me
All I learned is instant history
Is this how
The surface will break?
Releasing the pressure
The horrors that await
Hell hath no fury like a human born
Its only real if you can't replace it
And now I'm losing all control
Why do I fear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
I love the sound when it breaks
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
Dear God
We're shouting in the streets
'Cause all our love is instant history
We could go
To any time or place
But the history's a nightmare
I'm sure we'll awake
I got a fever in my bones
Gets me so high that I can taste it
And now I'm losing all control
Why do I fear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
I love the sound when it breaks
Can you hear it?
This is the sound that we make
Can you hear it?
Hell hath no fury like a human born
Its only real if you can't replace it
And now I'm losing all control
Why do I fear it?
This is the sound that we make
We only exist in the noise that we bring
This is the sound that we make
And we can't unlearn what we've learned
I love the sound when it breaks
We try to position our waves on a string
This is the sound that we make
And we can't hear what we've heard
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Instant History Lyrics as written by Simon Alexander Neil Ammar Malik
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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