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, did you know I'm a wanted man?
Steeped in black, where the sun won't pass
I never needed anyone, no
I never needed anyone, no
Young hearts must flame
Hell must roil
And feeling this all ends all surrounds you
It's I who admits here lying in waves
Lord knows, I've been gunning fast, oh
I'm seven-six, low on fancy blood
I never needed anyone, no
I never needed anyone, no
Saturn curdle sleep
Death will change your heart
And feeling this all ends all surrounds you
It's I who admits here lying in waves
Strike Earth, cry name
Rend sulfur to sage
I'm feeling this all ends all that surrounds you
Here it comes, here comes the wanted man
So step back, where the words don't last
I never needed anyone, no
I never needed anyone, no, no, no
Young hearts will change
Hell will have its roil
And feeling this all ends all surrounds you
It's I who admits here lying in waves
Steeped in black, where the sun won't pass
I never needed anyone, no
I never needed anyone, no
Young hearts must flame
Hell must roil
And feeling this all ends all surrounds you
It's I who admits here lying in waves
Lord knows, I've been gunning fast, oh
I'm seven-six, low on fancy blood
I never needed anyone, no
I never needed anyone, no
Saturn curdle sleep
Death will change your heart
And feeling this all ends all surrounds you
It's I who admits here lying in waves
Strike Earth, cry name
Rend sulfur to sage
I'm feeling this all ends all that surrounds you
Here it comes, here comes the wanted man
So step back, where the words don't last
I never needed anyone, no
I never needed anyone, no, no, no
Young hearts will change
Hell will have its roil
And feeling this all ends all surrounds you
It's I who admits here lying in waves
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Anno Satana Lyrics as written by William Patrick Corgan
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I never needed anyone, no I never needed anyone, no
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Young hearts must flame Hell must roil
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And feeling this all ends all surrounds you It's I who admits here lying in waves
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Lord knows, I've been gunning fast, oh —- he’s been making fame and fortune his god at any cost
I'm seven-six, low on fancy blood —- deeply disturbing, it’s his Masonic tribe number, and he’s admitting to partaking in blood communions with children’s blood.
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Death will change your heart —- he’s officially made a pact with death and it’s not the same for him
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Strike Earth, cry name Rend sulfur to sage
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