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"
Returning from the water, cold, alive, and shining
Rock a mike in the afterlife while your moon is rising
Heatin' up, forcing steam, whirling to be seen
The dark held stars are the frost of my breathing
Swimming through the darkness, I'm a ghostly shark
Developing like a photograph, slowly in the dark
The hereafter, the action, the main attraction
One love in all of this that I'm going after
Now there's fire inside, but black space surrounds you
You think, "Where, oh, where am I" but even your light continues
See through us, see a soul we have not yet
Learned to harness, see the next world inside it
We are the people of skin who left water
Inside the dark womb, inside of our mother
Prone to the beat and vibe of our tribe
We catch the drift and ride moving tides
Out from a love that will keep on burning
Now see yourself to the next world, returning
This life, an old place we face to live again
What is it to understand the hereafter?
Rock a mike in the afterlife while your moon is rising
Heatin' up, forcing steam, whirling to be seen
The dark held stars are the frost of my breathing
Swimming through the darkness, I'm a ghostly shark
Developing like a photograph, slowly in the dark
The hereafter, the action, the main attraction
One love in all of this that I'm going after
Now there's fire inside, but black space surrounds you
You think, "Where, oh, where am I" but even your light continues
See through us, see a soul we have not yet
Learned to harness, see the next world inside it
We are the people of skin who left water
Inside the dark womb, inside of our mother
Prone to the beat and vibe of our tribe
We catch the drift and ride moving tides
Out from a love that will keep on burning
Now see yourself to the next world, returning
This life, an old place we face to live again
What is it to understand the hereafter?
Lyrics submitted by pen1234567
Taiyed Lyrics as written by Douglas Vincent Martinez Aaron Charles Wills
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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