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"
If I wasn't good enough to finally succeed
Then I couldn't love the reasons that I still bleed
It's getting harder to walk, I guess I'll just have to run
Headed straight off a cliff, I'm not like everyone
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Been through hell and back, don't need your sympathy
Everything I wanted is right in front of me, yeah
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Come ride with me, yeah
Come ride with me
Keep my head up, sinkin', lost in all of these waves
These odds keep me goin', the tide has finally changed
When it gets harder to breathe, I guess I'll just have to scream
Get up back on my feet, I want the world to see me
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Been through hell and back, don't need your sympathy
Everything I wanted is right in front of me, yeah
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Come ride with me, yeah
Come ride with me
Come ride with me, yeah
Come ride with me
Bring me back up or take me down low
Make it go fast or move in slow-mo
'Bout that shine, all the hard times
Free up the mind, I can open my eyes
I'm a survivor
I'm a survivor
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Been through hell and back, don't need your sympathy
Everything I wanted is right in front of me, yeah
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Come ride with me, yeah
Come ride with me
Come ride with me, yeah
Come ride with me
(Survivor)
(Survivor)
(Survivor)
Then I couldn't love the reasons that I still bleed
It's getting harder to walk, I guess I'll just have to run
Headed straight off a cliff, I'm not like everyone
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Been through hell and back, don't need your sympathy
Everything I wanted is right in front of me, yeah
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Come ride with me, yeah
Come ride with me
Keep my head up, sinkin', lost in all of these waves
These odds keep me goin', the tide has finally changed
When it gets harder to breathe, I guess I'll just have to scream
Get up back on my feet, I want the world to see me
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Been through hell and back, don't need your sympathy
Everything I wanted is right in front of me, yeah
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Come ride with me, yeah
Come ride with me
Come ride with me, yeah
Come ride with me
Bring me back up or take me down low
Make it go fast or move in slow-mo
'Bout that shine, all the hard times
Free up the mind, I can open my eyes
I'm a survivor
I'm a survivor
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Been through hell and back, don't need your sympathy
Everything I wanted is right in front of me, yeah
I'm a survivor, come ride with me
Come ride with me, yeah
Come ride with me
Come ride with me, yeah
Come ride with me
(Survivor)
(Survivor)
(Survivor)
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Survivor Lyrics as written by Hayley Cramer Dave Bassett
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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