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"
I have basked like a phantom in shadow
Haunting gauntest opera eaves
As the cast was aware of nothing more in the air
Than the whisper of snow on the Autumnal breeze
As the ignorant waltzed
The ballad changed itʼs melody
Shunning the sun for infernal gloom
I felt joy in deep misery
But Fates found me out by the plight of the moon
Blazing a path that laughed at my own ill-ease
Drown despair with molten deeds
Fell the beast before it feeds
Master the sacred
Blast the horns that razed cities
Tell the grating world upon its knees
That I am free
This tethered Hellcat is unleashed
Unwinding, sore
Grinding to the core
This fucking Hellion is unleashed
The feeling is back
Like a Pharaonic curse
The scent of fresh blood
To a ravenous thirst Lazarus risen
Brought back from the dead
Realisation, this seasoning dread
Adrift in the cosmos, naked and rife
We breed without reason
Gifted with fleeting life
Drown despair with molten deeds
Fell the beast before it feeds
Master the sacred
Blast the horns that felled cities
Tell the grating world upon its knees
That i am free
The gates of the mind splinter open wide
On rusted hinges, must infringes
Senses thrust to override
Explode upon reality I thought long-lost, i failed to see
The forest for the trees
My fire had fled and died…
I now behold a dawn adorned with majesty
To never dare embrace it would be a travesty
A seething Chaotopia, a bedlam time story
For If this is the end
I want my wretched scars to breathe
Now sinkholes spit me back, the shades
Retreat like scattered dogs
As the earth is ablaze with the
End Of Days I watch (the) palaces burn along with Gods
Portals of thought have delivered me
From the brink of a stinking abyss
Wherein the view was of pain and askew
With an apathy born of crisis
Existential, for our place in the spheres
Gleamed meaningless, i must confide
I suffered, a fool at the mercy of fear
For what good was living when dying inside?
Drown despair with molten deeds
Fell the beast before it feeds
Master the sacred
Blast the horns that felled cities
Tell the grating world upon its knees
That I am free
This tethered Hellcat is unleashed
Unwinding, sore
Grinding to the core
This fucking Hellion is upon them
Haunting gauntest opera eaves
As the cast was aware of nothing more in the air
Than the whisper of snow on the Autumnal breeze
As the ignorant waltzed
The ballad changed itʼs melody
Shunning the sun for infernal gloom
I felt joy in deep misery
But Fates found me out by the plight of the moon
Blazing a path that laughed at my own ill-ease
Drown despair with molten deeds
Fell the beast before it feeds
Master the sacred
Blast the horns that razed cities
Tell the grating world upon its knees
That I am free
This tethered Hellcat is unleashed
Unwinding, sore
Grinding to the core
This fucking Hellion is unleashed
The feeling is back
Like a Pharaonic curse
The scent of fresh blood
To a ravenous thirst Lazarus risen
Brought back from the dead
Realisation, this seasoning dread
Adrift in the cosmos, naked and rife
We breed without reason
Gifted with fleeting life
Drown despair with molten deeds
Fell the beast before it feeds
Master the sacred
Blast the horns that felled cities
Tell the grating world upon its knees
That i am free
The gates of the mind splinter open wide
On rusted hinges, must infringes
Senses thrust to override
Explode upon reality I thought long-lost, i failed to see
The forest for the trees
My fire had fled and died…
I now behold a dawn adorned with majesty
To never dare embrace it would be a travesty
A seething Chaotopia, a bedlam time story
For If this is the end
I want my wretched scars to breathe
Now sinkholes spit me back, the shades
Retreat like scattered dogs
As the earth is ablaze with the
End Of Days I watch (the) palaces burn along with Gods
Portals of thought have delivered me
From the brink of a stinking abyss
Wherein the view was of pain and askew
With an apathy born of crisis
Existential, for our place in the spheres
Gleamed meaningless, i must confide
I suffered, a fool at the mercy of fear
For what good was living when dying inside?
Drown despair with molten deeds
Fell the beast before it feeds
Master the sacred
Blast the horns that felled cities
Tell the grating world upon its knees
That I am free
This tethered Hellcat is unleashed
Unwinding, sore
Grinding to the core
This fucking Hellion is upon them
Lyrics submitted by BreezyDragon
Unleash the Hellion Lyrics as written by Daniel Firth Anabelle Iratni
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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