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"
All of their bodies around me.
I hear their voices inside.
The battle's over.
This war has been won.
Visions haunt me in my dreams.
Visions of what I've done.
So much blood shed.
Now am I worthy to come home.
My God forgive me
For all of the bodies
I've taken in batter.
Oh God don't forsake me.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home.
I've been knee deep in water.
It's time to be set free.
So devastated.
The damage has been done.
So violated. Like I've been
Raped and left for dead.
I'm lying naked.
I'm lying naked on the floor.
My God forgive me
For all of the bodies
I've taken in battle.
All's fair in love and war.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home,
Yeah, I'm coming home.
This is the last time I
Raise a fist to fight.
Reach out your hands to me
And let's just disappear.
This is the last time I
Raise a fist to fight.
Reach out your hands to me
Let's just disappear.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
I'm coming
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home,
Yeah, I'm coming home
Yeah, yeah, I'm coming home
I'm coming home
This is the last time I
Raise a fist to fight.
Reach out your hands to me
Let's just disappear
Let's just disappear.
I hear their voices inside.
The battle's over.
This war has been won.
Visions haunt me in my dreams.
Visions of what I've done.
So much blood shed.
Now am I worthy to come home.
My God forgive me
For all of the bodies
I've taken in batter.
Oh God don't forsake me.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home.
I've been knee deep in water.
It's time to be set free.
So devastated.
The damage has been done.
So violated. Like I've been
Raped and left for dead.
I'm lying naked.
I'm lying naked on the floor.
My God forgive me
For all of the bodies
I've taken in battle.
All's fair in love and war.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home,
Yeah, I'm coming home.
This is the last time I
Raise a fist to fight.
Reach out your hands to me
And let's just disappear.
This is the last time I
Raise a fist to fight.
Reach out your hands to me
Let's just disappear.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
I'm coming
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home.
I will stand right by your side.
I have made it through the fight.
Now I'm coming home,
Now I'm coming home,
Yeah, I'm coming home
Yeah, yeah, I'm coming home
I'm coming home
This is the last time I
Raise a fist to fight.
Reach out your hands to me
Let's just disappear
Let's just disappear.
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I didn't like Escape The Fate after Ronnie Left but this album has me wavering.... I do Like this song. It is a good end to The Guillotine songs.
@Emptiness I agree, it is a very good end to the Guillotine.
the song itself is decent, but i have to say the lyrics are kinda lame. this album i think is much better then This War Is Ours but ronnie was much better with escape the fate craig needs to get back with blessthefall Dying Is Your Latest Fashion will be ETF's best album.
screw ronnie, this is their best track so far
screw ronnie, this is their best track so far
screw ronnie, this is their best track so far
would someone please explain to me why ETF has this guillotine theme? like, whey G1 G2 and G3?
also, not a fan of the guitar solo, it sounds like they kidnapped herman li.
but the song is alright.
G1 was about Halo 2 multiplayer while G2 was about halo 3 campaign.. G3 though i thought it was about the migration from halo 2 to halo 3 due to classic servers shutting down because i made out "Lockout (a halo 2 multilayer map mentioned in G1) forget me Valhalla (a halo 3 multilayer map) The bloody" rather than "My god. forgive me<br /> For all of the bodies" but it seems i was wrong
G3 is actually about Craig's dad when he was in the military when Craig was a child. Craig said he wanted to lose the Halo theme with the guillotine songs. "I will stand right by your side, I have made it through the fight. Now I'm coming home." That kinda gave it away to me
this song is about craig telling the haters to stop the war between ronnie and him because both sides are cool now with each other :)
You are Way Wrong. They Are NOT Cool With each other. Just Look at Interveiws with Ronnie. And The Song, like all in The Guillotine Series, is about War
I wasn't a fan of the whole craig in ETF thing like many loyal fans but after Ronnie said he wasn't mad anymore and that you can't go through life with hate in your heart i gave them another chance. I do like many of the tracks on this war is ours but on the self titled album all i have to say is KUDOS....Craig, you may have done something right.
This is one of their best songs along with Day of Wreckoning.