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"
A mystery of the universe a tale of the dead
Far into the psyche and far until the end
The mind, it often wonders about the few and far between
But in these lines, I think you'll find that you will believe
Oh far beyond the violent skies, you can see a watchful eye
His presence always shifting like the empty hands of time
On broken wings, he tries to sing his hateful lullaby
Nobody is listening to this dull pathetic cry
His death is mourned by no one, he is the shadowed one
Now he plots from below these deeds of a dead soul
Whispers in a wind storm carry through the night
Helpless victims everywhere, all have felt his plight
The scars he's left are memorable, he waits until they heal
Then he comes back again, to seal the final deal
Oh far beyond the violent skies, you can see a watchful eye
His presence always shifting like the empty hands of time
On broken wings, he tries to sing his hateful lullaby
Nobody is listening to this dull pathetic cry
His death is mourned by no one, he is the shadowed one
Now he plots from below these deeds of a dead soul
Far into the psyche and far until the end
The mind, it often wonders about the few and far between
But in these lines, I think you'll find that you will believe
Oh far beyond the violent skies, you can see a watchful eye
His presence always shifting like the empty hands of time
On broken wings, he tries to sing his hateful lullaby
Nobody is listening to this dull pathetic cry
His death is mourned by no one, he is the shadowed one
Now he plots from below these deeds of a dead soul
Whispers in a wind storm carry through the night
Helpless victims everywhere, all have felt his plight
The scars he's left are memorable, he waits until they heal
Then he comes back again, to seal the final deal
Oh far beyond the violent skies, you can see a watchful eye
His presence always shifting like the empty hands of time
On broken wings, he tries to sing his hateful lullaby
Nobody is listening to this dull pathetic cry
His death is mourned by no one, he is the shadowed one
Now he plots from below these deeds of a dead soul
Lyrics submitted by Kingofstilport
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