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"
All in all, it's no one's fault,
Excuses turn to carbon walls,
Blame it all on chemical intercourse.
The swallowed seeds of arrogance,
Breeding in the thoughts of ten-
Thousand fools that fight irrelevance.
The full moon is dead skin,
The one down here's wearing thin,
So set up the ten pins,
As the human tide rolls in,
Like a ball that's spinning.
Bombs, dropping down,
Overhead, underground,
It's instilled, to want to live.
Bombs, dropping down,
Please forgive, our hometown,
In our insignificance.
Turn the jukebox up, he said,
Dancing in irreverence,
Play V3, let the song protest.
The plates began to shift,
Perfect lefts come rolling in,
I was alone and far away, hey,
When I heard the band start playing,
On the lip, late take off.
Bombs, dropping down,
Overhead, underground,
It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down,
Please forgive, our hometown,
In our insignificance.
Feel like resonance of distance,
In the blood the iron lies.
It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down,
Please forgive our hometown,
In our insignificance,
Oh, in our insignificance, oh.
Excuses turn to carbon walls,
Blame it all on chemical intercourse.
The swallowed seeds of arrogance,
Breeding in the thoughts of ten-
Thousand fools that fight irrelevance.
The full moon is dead skin,
The one down here's wearing thin,
So set up the ten pins,
As the human tide rolls in,
Like a ball that's spinning.
Bombs, dropping down,
Overhead, underground,
It's instilled, to want to live.
Bombs, dropping down,
Please forgive, our hometown,
In our insignificance.
Turn the jukebox up, he said,
Dancing in irreverence,
Play V3, let the song protest.
The plates began to shift,
Perfect lefts come rolling in,
I was alone and far away, hey,
When I heard the band start playing,
On the lip, late take off.
Bombs, dropping down,
Overhead, underground,
It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down,
Please forgive, our hometown,
In our insignificance.
Feel like resonance of distance,
In the blood the iron lies.
It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down,
Please forgive our hometown,
In our insignificance,
Oh, in our insignificance, oh.
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