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"
And I will say what's on my mind
If I can find my way from here
Or I will stay a fallen man
If I can't find my where from here
Zero nothing and then left to die
Could I have everything here with no surprise?
Would I? Turn back the changes, and yet we try, abandon all abandon all on
the inside
Now I see the light
And I will say what's on my mind
If I can find my way from here
Or I will stay a fallen man
If I can't find my where from here
Zero nothing and then left to die
Could I have everything here with no surprise?
Would I? Turn back the changes, and yet we try, should I abandon all abandon
all that is mine
Never again will I walk the line, more than spirits inside they're no friend
of mine this is the same name I can't come to grips with it, and now I feel,
and now I feel dismissed
Now I see the light
If I can find my way from here
Or I will stay a fallen man
If I can't find my where from here
Zero nothing and then left to die
Could I have everything here with no surprise?
Would I? Turn back the changes, and yet we try, abandon all abandon all on
the inside
Now I see the light
And I will say what's on my mind
If I can find my way from here
Or I will stay a fallen man
If I can't find my where from here
Zero nothing and then left to die
Could I have everything here with no surprise?
Would I? Turn back the changes, and yet we try, should I abandon all abandon
all that is mine
Never again will I walk the line, more than spirits inside they're no friend
of mine this is the same name I can't come to grips with it, and now I feel,
and now I feel dismissed
Now I see the light
Lyrics submitted by alexandradawn
Track 13 Lyrics as written by Phil Arcuri Cliff Rigano
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i've had the line "if i can't find my way from here" stuck in my head for the past 2 days and i couldn't remember who did the song, it was annoying me so much, i knew exactly how it was sung and how the back up vocals went over it and everything... finally i searched for the line on here and found it, what a releif. also i don't know what the songs about and don't care too much neither
its missing a lot of parts of the song like the part where he screams really loud
This song, is so fucking awesome. DKL is one of the best bands out...To bad the guitarist left =/. But they recovered and got shit handled, in the studio recording they're follow up to TDSON.
This track I THINK means if he dosen't express his feelings, he dosen't feel complete, and he did so and now he see's the light.
think song is beautiful, the're supposed to release a new album out later this year! a must-buy!!
hey ya fucks here's the complete version
And I will say what's on my mind If I can find my way from here Or I will stay a fallen man If I can't find my where from here
Zero nothing and then left to die Could I have everything here with no surprise? Would I? Turn back the changes, and yet we try, abandon all abandon all on the inside
Now I see the light
And I will say what's on my mind If I can find my way from here Or I will stay a fallen man If I can't find my where from here
Zero nothing and then left to die Could I have everything here with no surprise? Would I? Turn back the changes, and yet we try, should I abandon all abandon all that is mine Never again will I walk the line, more than spirits inside they're no friend of mine this is the same name I can't come to grips with it, and now I feel, and now I feel dismissed
Now I see the light
nice one
oh wow ghostwishing aren't you fucking special...nah you're just a loser douchebag is all.
Yes, I absolutely HATE poeple who fix incorrect lyrics on this site.
stfu no one is talking to you.
haha you guys are silly