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"
Lord, I must be dreamin'
What else could this be?
Everybody's screamin'
Runnin' for the sea
Holy lands are sinkin'
Birds take to the sky
The prophets all are stinkin' drunk
I know the reason why
Eyes are full of desire
Mind is so ill-at-ease
Everything is on fire
Shit piled up to the knees
Out of rhyme or reason, everyone's to blame
Children of the season, don't be lame
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known and now he's blown it
Upside down and hell's the only sound, we did an awful job
And now they say it's nobody's fault
Old San Andreas
Seventy years ago
Shove it up their Richters
Red lines stop and go
Noblemen of courage
Listen with their ears
Spoke without discouragin'
When no one really hears
One of these days you'll be sorry
Too many houses on the stilt
Three million years or just a story
Four on the floor up to the hilt
Out of rhyme or reason, everyone's to blame
Children of the season, don't be lame
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known and now he's blown it
Upside down and hell's the only sound, we did an awful job
And now we're just a little too late
Eyes are full of desire
Mind is so ill-at-ease
Everything is on fire
A shit piled up in debris
California showtime
Five o'clock's the news
Everybody's concubine was prone to take a snooze
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known and now he's blown it
Upside down and hell's the only sound, we did an awful job
And now we're just a little too late
What else could this be?
Everybody's screamin'
Runnin' for the sea
Holy lands are sinkin'
Birds take to the sky
The prophets all are stinkin' drunk
I know the reason why
Eyes are full of desire
Mind is so ill-at-ease
Everything is on fire
Shit piled up to the knees
Out of rhyme or reason, everyone's to blame
Children of the season, don't be lame
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known and now he's blown it
Upside down and hell's the only sound, we did an awful job
And now they say it's nobody's fault
Old San Andreas
Seventy years ago
Shove it up their Richters
Red lines stop and go
Noblemen of courage
Listen with their ears
Spoke without discouragin'
When no one really hears
One of these days you'll be sorry
Too many houses on the stilt
Three million years or just a story
Four on the floor up to the hilt
Out of rhyme or reason, everyone's to blame
Children of the season, don't be lame
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known and now he's blown it
Upside down and hell's the only sound, we did an awful job
And now we're just a little too late
Eyes are full of desire
Mind is so ill-at-ease
Everything is on fire
A shit piled up in debris
California showtime
Five o'clock's the news
Everybody's concubine was prone to take a snooze
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known and now he's blown it
Upside down and hell's the only sound, we did an awful job
And now we're just a little too late
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Thats an interesting theory, but I don't know how much weight I'd put into it. Do you have anything else to back it up? Not to say you are wrong, just that they've always been pretty straightforward in their messages.
Also, Testament covered this song.