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 we continue to chase the sun
only to burn up both our hands
and we will find out what's to know...
in warning winds the truth will blow
you might find I'm feeling all the guilt
dragging out the hours, all decieved
well, both are harmless and haunting to me
now remember your heroes
as a cancel out zero
like you were young again
a man you haven't seen in years
ressurecting your deepest fears
returns a favor unto himself...
by turning us the other cheek
you're another coat of red in hell.
kill this child to make sure I'd raise him well.
on a concrete road to recovery
cause I'm knocking over every cone
in front of me.
only to burn up both our hands
and we will find out what's to know...
in warning winds the truth will blow
you might find I'm feeling all the guilt
dragging out the hours, all decieved
well, both are harmless and haunting to me
now remember your heroes
as a cancel out zero
like you were young again
a man you haven't seen in years
ressurecting your deepest fears
returns a favor unto himself...
by turning us the other cheek
you're another coat of red in hell.
kill this child to make sure I'd raise him well.
on a concrete road to recovery
cause I'm knocking over every cone
in front of me.
Lyrics submitted by boognish925
Big Riff Lyrics as written by John Robert Conners Stephen Brodsky
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everytime i hear this song, i want to punch my dog because it's so good.
yeah! I'm with tsucol. well, sort of.
this is a good song, someone put up the lyrics to "Bigger Riff" that'd be so rockin....!
i have no ideaa what this songs about but it rocks, the drummings awesome, so huge!!! listening to this on low volume is a crime, i think they called it big riff because it has a whole mystical theme to it-led zeppelin-mystical-riffs-big riff, ah well, cant wait for bigger riff!!!
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"on a concrete road to recovery cause I'm knocking over every cone in front of me."
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definitely epic...
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