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"
Ride the wind
My aggressions mirrored themselves in her eyes
As the blade was ripping up her insides
Her eyes
Stabbing and stabbing
My love fell dead to the floor
Together with sheds of my sanity
Dead in the absence of agony
She's still here with me
As Hell turns to ice
Her dead eyes staring deep into my soul
Into the carved out hole
Sweeping forth, the wind without no name
My mind is raped by insanity
Now her blood flows in my veins
Her heart beats in my chest
Her voice screams within my mind
The wind without no name
Ride the wind
Now time itself touches my soul
It's ice cold breath in my ear
Oh, "God" I'm sorry, I lost control
I slayed love disguised as fear
The fire still burns within my soul
No wind to put it out
Now time itself touches my soul
It's ice cold breath in my ear
Oh, "God" I'm sorry, I lost control
I slayed love disguised as fear
My aggressions mirrored themselves in her eyes
As the blade was ripping up her insides
Her eyes
Stabbing and stabbing
My love fell dead to the floor
Together with sheds of my sanity
Dead in the absence of agony
She's still here with me
As Hell turns to ice
Her dead eyes staring deep into my soul
Into the carved out hole
Sweeping forth, the wind without no name
My mind is raped by insanity
Now her blood flows in my veins
Her heart beats in my chest
Her voice screams within my mind
The wind without no name
Ride the wind
Now time itself touches my soul
It's ice cold breath in my ear
Oh, "God" I'm sorry, I lost control
I slayed love disguised as fear
The fire still burns within my soul
No wind to put it out
Now time itself touches my soul
It's ice cold breath in my ear
Oh, "God" I'm sorry, I lost control
I slayed love disguised as fear
Lyrics submitted by Selfmutilized
Claws of Laughter Dead Lyrics as written by Alf Svensson Adrian Erlandsson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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