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 given hope's the same
Now it's all time to kill the pain
Complaints covering a whining tongue
Try to speak a mouth of truths
To time to recollect for ill-mannered self-neglect
Stand on your own two feet
Stability a broken strand of string
Outstretched, out of reach
Not enough rest for this brainstaking quest
These moods among the elite
Sitting down...to re-examine mistakes
Overly analytical war-gaming
Slurring syllables, un-sober moment one use to regret
Non-scapegoat mouth...oversee several ideas
Losing it inside
These words are like a dyslexic interpretation of the wrong
A quiet moment for love gone bad
No time to waste for a second guess
This look on your face
So pathetic
Stealing fear from an innocent mind
Distilled existence to collapse into tears
All in your hands now
Change it
Don't be what others think or want
Fuck the law, create your own
The heretic, the witch, a martyr for the weak
Shoved down lives of ambition
Stop whispering the truth to yourself
Under a breath of lies, a false disguise
Spell caster of curse words
Spoken stones to be thrown at guilt-covered society
Give it till tomorrow
Give it a couple days
Blank face, lying smile
Bothered by flawed events
You only wished you hadn't given till it hurt
A backward decision on your part
Now this is starting over
And less the man A selfish instinct overdose
Re-assure the growth
A traitor to your own words
These bitter terms swapped
Intentions never there
Never to lend a hand
Don't look back
Behind your backs
They grew to men
Halt...permission to stand...a grown man
Symbolize the rape of freedom
The loss to see all
To decide on your own
Now it's all time to kill the pain
Complaints covering a whining tongue
Try to speak a mouth of truths
To time to recollect for ill-mannered self-neglect
Stand on your own two feet
Stability a broken strand of string
Outstretched, out of reach
Not enough rest for this brainstaking quest
These moods among the elite
Sitting down...to re-examine mistakes
Overly analytical war-gaming
Slurring syllables, un-sober moment one use to regret
Non-scapegoat mouth...oversee several ideas
Losing it inside
These words are like a dyslexic interpretation of the wrong
A quiet moment for love gone bad
No time to waste for a second guess
This look on your face
So pathetic
Stealing fear from an innocent mind
Distilled existence to collapse into tears
All in your hands now
Change it
Don't be what others think or want
Fuck the law, create your own
The heretic, the witch, a martyr for the weak
Shoved down lives of ambition
Stop whispering the truth to yourself
Under a breath of lies, a false disguise
Spell caster of curse words
Spoken stones to be thrown at guilt-covered society
Give it till tomorrow
Give it a couple days
Blank face, lying smile
Bothered by flawed events
You only wished you hadn't given till it hurt
A backward decision on your part
Now this is starting over
And less the man A selfish instinct overdose
Re-assure the growth
A traitor to your own words
These bitter terms swapped
Intentions never there
Never to lend a hand
Don't look back
Behind your backs
They grew to men
Halt...permission to stand...a grown man
Symbolize the rape of freedom
The loss to see all
To decide on your own
Lyrics submitted by sati
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