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"
Ten thousand years into the reign of our madness and misery from the fertile wombs of the near east born one lifestyle and tradition like a raging storm this brutish culture swarned across the continents and seas to pillage and rape, with lust this eart to take, now we stand on the brink of destruction
outside of nature stands angelic our mother culture. we've been blindly led down darkened halls of a ravaged world deplored. within this society lay the suffering seed. we must dispel the falsehood and lies and kill the gods the so desperately need
a way of life filled with grief and strife and a failing sense of mind. for how we used to live, how we used to thrive in the golbal community. but now we stand alone and struggle to fulfill the so-called destiny of humankind. to rule this sacred eart, for what the scars are worth, i will live as a full-sworn enemy
burn the altars upon which their dwindling faith lies. tear the pages from their holy scriptures (prophets speak empty words) crucifiy their convictions (for love of the world i stray from the selfisf path of salvation) for with each life which turns its back on their beliefs. the gods which make up the base of their culture cease to be. the gifts of civilization and technology which their gods bestow are but despair and disease gilded in fool's gold
of what does our voice sing in the chorus of distress? this day all gods dies
outside of nature stands angelic our mother culture. we've been blindly led down darkened halls of a ravaged world deplored. within this society lay the suffering seed. we must dispel the falsehood and lies and kill the gods the so desperately need
a way of life filled with grief and strife and a failing sense of mind. for how we used to live, how we used to thrive in the golbal community. but now we stand alone and struggle to fulfill the so-called destiny of humankind. to rule this sacred eart, for what the scars are worth, i will live as a full-sworn enemy
burn the altars upon which their dwindling faith lies. tear the pages from their holy scriptures (prophets speak empty words) crucifiy their convictions (for love of the world i stray from the selfisf path of salvation) for with each life which turns its back on their beliefs. the gods which make up the base of their culture cease to be. the gifts of civilization and technology which their gods bestow are but despair and disease gilded in fool's gold
of what does our voice sing in the chorus of distress? this day all gods dies
Lyrics submitted by Va22nessa
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