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"
This is a crisis I knew had to come
Destroying the balance I'd kept
Doubting, unsettling, and turning around
Wondering what will come next
Is this the role that you wanted to live?
I was foolish to ask for so much
Without the protection and infancy's guard
It all falls apart at first touch
Watching the reel as it comes to a close
Brutally taking its time
People who change for no reason at all
It's happening all of the time
Can I go on with this train of events?
Disturbing and purging my mind
Back out of my duties, when all's said and done
I know that I'll lose every time
Moving along in our God-given ways
Safety is sat by the fire
Sanctuary from these feverish smiles
Left with a mark on the door
Is this the gift that I wanted to give?
Forgive and forget's what they teach
Or pass through the deserts and wastelands once more
And watch as they drop by the beach
This is the crisis I knew had to come
Destroying the balance I'd kept
Turning around to the next set of lives
Wondering what will come next
Destroying the balance I'd kept
Doubting, unsettling, and turning around
Wondering what will come next
Is this the role that you wanted to live?
I was foolish to ask for so much
Without the protection and infancy's guard
It all falls apart at first touch
Watching the reel as it comes to a close
Brutally taking its time
People who change for no reason at all
It's happening all of the time
Can I go on with this train of events?
Disturbing and purging my mind
Back out of my duties, when all's said and done
I know that I'll lose every time
Moving along in our God-given ways
Safety is sat by the fire
Sanctuary from these feverish smiles
Left with a mark on the door
Is this the gift that I wanted to give?
Forgive and forget's what they teach
Or pass through the deserts and wastelands once more
And watch as they drop by the beach
This is the crisis I knew had to come
Destroying the balance I'd kept
Turning around to the next set of lives
Wondering what will come next
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OK lets clear this up...the song hurt (The meaning)
Is the beining and end of our life, being born again sort of speak. Jonny Cash loved God and was a firm beliver in Jesus Christ. Allow me to explain in greater detail, The song does has few metamorphs that seem to lead people that the song is about drugs..dont hardly think cash would sing, revamp,or remake a song about herion.
The song is more a lession in life that only God can show you. a period lasttwo years. More along the lines of fate,Distiny, choices,temptations, higher purpose. wheel of fortune..sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse. Depending on how the person acts and reponse to the situation..like 33% of your actions account towards your true distiny. Those who attempt to do Gods will will be greatly rewarded sothe true meaning of the song is a period of darkness is when a powerful force will rule you. you will be given few choices most will be made for you. The dark period they talk about where everyone i know goes away in the end (evil remaines) This is a period of your life where must make it through blindy. have faith you will do fine. Like Moses doing Gods will blindly. Have you ever wondered why some businesses sky rocket and others fail, or why someone all of sudden gets promoted. Many of men owe their success to wife and and their second wife to their success( or their are those that enjoy adundance of sex and wealth,(Dont act in haste, those who do act in haste will generally loose from infidelity ruff road to glory!!!. Im sure their are few men out their know what im talking about. In short we all have a purpose if you do not recanize the gift of christ and your transformation you miss the boat. PS taking short cuts to the road of sucuess prolongs the torments of man. This indeed is the DARK period.
Theirs a long black train coming down the line feeding off souls that are lost in time.
Peace