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"
when i saw you there in the shadow of the setting sun
when i saw you there in the shadow of the setting sun
you looked so beautiful
you looked so beautiful
when i saw you there i couldn't resist your tender kiss
when i saw you there i couldn't resist your warm caress
you had so much to give
you had your time to live
christfuck christfuck
i will bring us thru this
as always i will carry you kicking and screaming
and in the end you will thank me
you had your time to live
cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry
cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry
cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry
christfuck
when i saw you there in the shadow of the setting sun
you looked so beautiful
you looked so beautiful
when i saw you there i couldn't resist your tender kiss
when i saw you there i couldn't resist your warm caress
you had so much to give
you had your time to live
christfuck christfuck
i will bring us thru this
as always i will carry you kicking and screaming
and in the end you will thank me
you had your time to live
cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry
cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry
cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry
christfuck
Lyrics submitted by liquidmercurial
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Hm this is just a theory with this song, not really saying it's the only meaning it could have.
In the beginning he's talking about the shadow of the setting sun. Perhaps that implies a surrounding 'darkness' and a fading light with someone he loved or maybe a fading light around two people. In that darkness something looked so beautiful, that beautiful thing being christianity. He couldnt resist it's tender kiss, meaning christianity promised a lot to him in his time of darkness. As for him saying 'you had your time to live, you had so much to give, christfuck" could be him losing his faith, saying it had its chance to give what it promised, but failed and now he damns it. So then he talks about getting 'us' through this, meaning he will get them through the dark times. Instead of relying on faith. As for the voice clip in this song, maybe she is resisting, and in the end she will thank him when everything is better, since the light in his actions are surrounded by the darkness. Well that sums it up.. This is really just something I was thinking about, more to keep myself entertained, thought I'd share it.
hi sangie, please see my commentary on what these lyrics of this song mean above. you are right about the darkness, but what it was that looked so beautiful was actually the lure of satan, and satan's beauty.