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"
Friday night
Was outta sight
We didn't have a single fight
Saturday
You totally changed
You said forget about being engaged
Do you see what I can see
When I see you grin at me?
But it's alright
It's just a game
You are so retarded
I must be retarded too
Maybe you're afraid of what I started
I guess you didn't want something new
Everything is so retarded
Expected more after all that we've been through
I can't believe it
I can't believe it
I'm still in love with you
If my friends only knew
What you do
They'd tell me not to bother to parlez to vous
(That means "talk" to "you". French!)
I should leave but my damn love won't
I'm so used to this where else could I go?
They can see what I can see
When she's in my company
But it's alright
It's just a game
You are so retarded
I must be retarded too
Maybe you're afraid of what I started
I guess you didn't want something new
Everything is so retarded
Expected more after all that we've been through
I can't believe it
I can't believe it
I'm still in love
I just can't believe you're so retarded
You are so retarded
I must be retarded too
Maybe you're afraid of what I started
I guess you didn't want something new
Everything is so retarded
Expected more after all that we've been through
I can't believe it
I can't believe it
I'm in
Was outta sight
We didn't have a single fight
Saturday
You totally changed
You said forget about being engaged
Do you see what I can see
When I see you grin at me?
But it's alright
It's just a game
You are so retarded
I must be retarded too
Maybe you're afraid of what I started
I guess you didn't want something new
Everything is so retarded
Expected more after all that we've been through
I can't believe it
I can't believe it
I'm still in love with you
If my friends only knew
What you do
They'd tell me not to bother to parlez to vous
(That means "talk" to "you". French!)
I should leave but my damn love won't
I'm so used to this where else could I go?
They can see what I can see
When she's in my company
But it's alright
It's just a game
You are so retarded
I must be retarded too
Maybe you're afraid of what I started
I guess you didn't want something new
Everything is so retarded
Expected more after all that we've been through
I can't believe it
I can't believe it
I'm still in love
I just can't believe you're so retarded
You are so retarded
I must be retarded too
Maybe you're afraid of what I started
I guess you didn't want something new
Everything is so retarded
Expected more after all that we've been through
I can't believe it
I can't believe it
I'm in
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