This:
"Hours lost, you were the cost I that I knew would surely pay"
Should be:
"When I was lost,
You were the cost that I knew I would surely pay."
Which is really different, of course.
It sounds to me that it's about a guy who felt really lost and jaded by the things he'd seen in his life, found someone who could help him out of it, but it the end lost him\her and is now "fallin'... once again."
This: "Hours lost, you were the cost I that I knew would surely pay"
Should be: "When I was lost, You were the cost that I knew I would surely pay."
Which is really different, of course.
It sounds to me that it's about a guy who felt really lost and jaded by the things he'd seen in his life, found someone who could help him out of it, but it the end lost him\her and is now "fallin'... once again."