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"
There's nothing a god can give to me that I can't give to myself
I put my beliefs in the things I believe and a god can take care of himself
There's not enough love in the world for me to think about wasting my time
It's not that I don't believe at all but I don't need a heavenly sign
I can achieve the things I need without getting down on my knees
I can respect your religion but I don't want to pay your fees
I don't want to hear you talk about the things you think that I need
so don't help me back on my feet again until you can hear me plead
Just look in the holy book of crooks and tell me what you can find
All the rules and the regulations made to manipulate your mind
Don't pretend that you're blind just open your mind and study historical times
The bigger the loss the bigger the cost the bigger the cross and its crimes
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe in a god that I need to worship
- Ya rab ya rahman
I don't believe that I need to get down on my knees
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe that a voice from above can help me
- Ya rab ya rahman
I only believe in what I can see and the things that I can achieve
Whatever belief you belong to there's still always a reason to doubt
and there's always another opinion as to what life is all about
There's always a bigger dimension and a different point of view
so I don't want to try to change you that decision is up to you
Whatever your final choice is and however you choose to live
You'd better be happy for what you can get and happy for what you can give
There's only one thing to remember there is only one thing you can do
and that is to do unto others as you'd have others do unto you
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe in a god that I need to worship
- Ya rab ya rahman
I don't believe that I need to get down on my knees
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe that a voice from above can help me
- Ya rab ya rahman
I only believe in what I can see and the things that I can achieve
Two sides two sides to every story
two stories more makes four new ones to choose
Four sides four sides to every story
four stories more makes eight new ones to choose
Eight sides eight sides to every story
eight stories more now which one should you choose
now which one can you use
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe in a god that I need to worship
- Ya rab ya rahman
I don't believe that I need to get down on my knees
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe that a voice from above can help me
- Men allah al salam
I only believe in what I can see and the things that I can achieve
I put my beliefs in the things I believe and a god can take care of himself
There's not enough love in the world for me to think about wasting my time
It's not that I don't believe at all but I don't need a heavenly sign
I can achieve the things I need without getting down on my knees
I can respect your religion but I don't want to pay your fees
I don't want to hear you talk about the things you think that I need
so don't help me back on my feet again until you can hear me plead
Just look in the holy book of crooks and tell me what you can find
All the rules and the regulations made to manipulate your mind
Don't pretend that you're blind just open your mind and study historical times
The bigger the loss the bigger the cost the bigger the cross and its crimes
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe in a god that I need to worship
- Ya rab ya rahman
I don't believe that I need to get down on my knees
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe that a voice from above can help me
- Ya rab ya rahman
I only believe in what I can see and the things that I can achieve
Whatever belief you belong to there's still always a reason to doubt
and there's always another opinion as to what life is all about
There's always a bigger dimension and a different point of view
so I don't want to try to change you that decision is up to you
Whatever your final choice is and however you choose to live
You'd better be happy for what you can get and happy for what you can give
There's only one thing to remember there is only one thing you can do
and that is to do unto others as you'd have others do unto you
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe in a god that I need to worship
- Ya rab ya rahman
I don't believe that I need to get down on my knees
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe that a voice from above can help me
- Ya rab ya rahman
I only believe in what I can see and the things that I can achieve
Two sides two sides to every story
two stories more makes four new ones to choose
Four sides four sides to every story
four stories more makes eight new ones to choose
Eight sides eight sides to every story
eight stories more now which one should you choose
now which one can you use
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe in a god that I need to worship
- Ya rab ya rahman
I don't believe that I need to get down on my knees
- Men allah al salam
I don't believe that a voice from above can help me
- Men allah al salam
I only believe in what I can see and the things that I can achieve
Lyrics submitted by KrudeDuse, edited by random_monkey
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