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"
This house doesn't feel like home
When the ghosts of the past walk through these halls
Just a part of the syndrome
Skeletons so lost hid in the walls
I don't run 'cause, I can't escape
Every time they call my name
Let down, dragged out in the pouring rain
Left to drown, left to drown, I see it on their face
With every promise you have broken
Another crack forms in the foundation
Maybe they'll hear us screaming from our lungs
Maybe they'll see us standing in our graves, fighting through our pain
Through our pain
Awake in an empty tomb, floating echoes reside that we're left by you
Living life in a circle
I feel you here, you're the toxin in this room
I can't run, I can't escape
Until the day that you're erased
Let down, dragged out in the pouring rain
Left to drown, left to drown, I see it on their face
With every promise you have broken
Another crack forms in the foundation
Maybe they'll hear us screaming from our lungs
Maybe they'll see us standing in our graves, fighting through our pain
Flesh of Your flesh
Blood of Your blood
Can nothing, no one, teach them to love?
Flesh of Your flesh
Blood of Your blood
Can nothing, no one, teach them how to love?
Teach them how to love?
They may be forgotten, but I won't forget the hate that you left
The unpayable debt
With each passing moment the fire consumes
Your pride will bury you
Take a look at what you left behind
Take a look at what you left behind
When the ghosts of the past walk through these halls
Just a part of the syndrome
Skeletons so lost hid in the walls
I don't run 'cause, I can't escape
Every time they call my name
Let down, dragged out in the pouring rain
Left to drown, left to drown, I see it on their face
With every promise you have broken
Another crack forms in the foundation
Maybe they'll hear us screaming from our lungs
Maybe they'll see us standing in our graves, fighting through our pain
Through our pain
Awake in an empty tomb, floating echoes reside that we're left by you
Living life in a circle
I feel you here, you're the toxin in this room
I can't run, I can't escape
Until the day that you're erased
Let down, dragged out in the pouring rain
Left to drown, left to drown, I see it on their face
With every promise you have broken
Another crack forms in the foundation
Maybe they'll hear us screaming from our lungs
Maybe they'll see us standing in our graves, fighting through our pain
Flesh of Your flesh
Blood of Your blood
Can nothing, no one, teach them to love?
Flesh of Your flesh
Blood of Your blood
Can nothing, no one, teach them how to love?
Teach them how to love?
They may be forgotten, but I won't forget the hate that you left
The unpayable debt
With each passing moment the fire consumes
Your pride will bury you
Take a look at what you left behind
Take a look at what you left behind
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