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"
I can hear you, but I can't see you
I know what you want, but I wouldn't wanna be you
I got the truth in the stating that reality
is PM5K speciality
flame on, flame off, blood is in the veins
be strong, be strong, goin through the brain
strain for some power, but the power ain't free see
what you gotta do with, what you gotta be
if you choose to hide then it's hidden
if you chose to ride then its ridden
scoop up the bottom that is right next to nothing
you gotta blame yourself if you gotta blame something
misery born in the brain like a bad seed
and when I scream Godspeed to mislead
flies to the period right is the wrong
strike the match - Flame On
FLAME ON! YEAH!
FLAME ON!
FLAME ON! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
Jump on you skull cause the rain is gettin heavy yeah
the furrier where was your face (?)
scarier then ever before, exit through the door
and add that to another, yeah they wantin more
of your pain its a strain
but myself, I still remain
I create (?)
now here is a man that wouldn't take it anymore
ran it through your skull once, so I run it once more
if you choose to hide then it's hidden
if you chose to ride then its ridden
scrape up the bottom that is right next to nothing
you gotta blame yourself if you gotta blame something
FLAME ON! YEAH!
FLAME ON!
FLAME ON! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
a profit
a poet
a pusher
you know it
slow it down
we goin underground
no time to reconcile
it's super hero style
unbelievable, unbeatable
some people call me evil
though I will not be
constricted by
the thoughts of another
then tend to smother
true force completely
it's never discreetly
you have a nice day
please to meet me
history or hell
I will accept with out a scratch
never heard a word
just a blur
strike the match
I know what you want, but I wouldn't wanna be you
I got the truth in the stating that reality
is PM5K speciality
flame on, flame off, blood is in the veins
be strong, be strong, goin through the brain
strain for some power, but the power ain't free see
what you gotta do with, what you gotta be
if you choose to hide then it's hidden
if you chose to ride then its ridden
scoop up the bottom that is right next to nothing
you gotta blame yourself if you gotta blame something
misery born in the brain like a bad seed
and when I scream Godspeed to mislead
flies to the period right is the wrong
strike the match - Flame On
FLAME ON! YEAH!
FLAME ON!
FLAME ON! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
Jump on you skull cause the rain is gettin heavy yeah
the furrier where was your face (?)
scarier then ever before, exit through the door
and add that to another, yeah they wantin more
of your pain its a strain
but myself, I still remain
I create (?)
now here is a man that wouldn't take it anymore
ran it through your skull once, so I run it once more
if you choose to hide then it's hidden
if you chose to ride then its ridden
scrape up the bottom that is right next to nothing
you gotta blame yourself if you gotta blame something
FLAME ON! YEAH!
FLAME ON!
FLAME ON! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
a profit
a poet
a pusher
you know it
slow it down
we goin underground
no time to reconcile
it's super hero style
unbelievable, unbeatable
some people call me evil
though I will not be
constricted by
the thoughts of another
then tend to smother
true force completely
it's never discreetly
you have a nice day
please to meet me
history or hell
I will accept with out a scratch
never heard a word
just a blur
strike the match
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
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