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've never been one for the punch-ups
But, look, I really hate them Nazis
A certain something starts to wind me up
How could I hate them so violently?
When two swords slashing at each other
Only sharpen one another
And in the long run even he's your brother
Said, even though that kid's a Nazi
Always attack those things in someone else
Reflections that you can't face in yourself
To make precious fascistic feeling gone
It makes you turn into a bigger one
two swords slashing at each other
Only sharpen one another
And in the long run even he's your brother
Said, even though that kid's a Nazi
Are you fighting the front or just fronting a fight?
Sometimes it's hard to see the left from the right
Are we angry, are we looking for peace
Or just tryin' to win the war
By killing all the enemy off?
Just to kill all the enemy off (enemy off)
Just to kill all the enemy off (enemy off)
Just to kill all the enemy off (enemy off)
I've never been one for the punch-ups
But look I really hate them Nazis
A certain something starts to wind me up
How could I hate them of so violently?
When two swords slashing at each other
Only sharpen one another
And in the long run even he's your brother
Said, even though that kid's a Nazi
Even though that kid's a Nazi
Even though that kid's a Nazi
But, look, I really hate them Nazis
A certain something starts to wind me up
How could I hate them so violently?
When two swords slashing at each other
Only sharpen one another
And in the long run even he's your brother
Said, even though that kid's a Nazi
Always attack those things in someone else
Reflections that you can't face in yourself
To make precious fascistic feeling gone
It makes you turn into a bigger one
two swords slashing at each other
Only sharpen one another
And in the long run even he's your brother
Said, even though that kid's a Nazi
Are you fighting the front or just fronting a fight?
Sometimes it's hard to see the left from the right
Are we angry, are we looking for peace
Or just tryin' to win the war
By killing all the enemy off?
Just to kill all the enemy off (enemy off)
Just to kill all the enemy off (enemy off)
Just to kill all the enemy off (enemy off)
I've never been one for the punch-ups
But look I really hate them Nazis
A certain something starts to wind me up
How could I hate them of so violently?
When two swords slashing at each other
Only sharpen one another
And in the long run even he's your brother
Said, even though that kid's a Nazi
Even though that kid's a Nazi
Even though that kid's a Nazi
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