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"
In my dreams, I can see us in a tight embrace
Doin' all the things that we never really did
I think I'm in love with you
Must we go run through our lives with our eyes closed
To the loving happiness that we can share
I think I'm in love with you and your friend
Honest I do, I can't see you and me and her without each other
And I hope you feel the same way too (you and me and her)
I spend all my time on the telephone line
Tryin' to say it just right this time
Something that could change your mind
I know this is love and here before
Though I whisper somethin so sincere
Vaguely what you want to hear
Now you know the things that I say when I'm swimming
Through the flood of all my desire can be so unclear
But I know I'm in love with you
In my dreams I still see us in a tight embrace
In spite of all the things that people say when they stare
that's how I know I'm in love with you and your friend
Honest I do, I can't see you and me and her without each other
And I hope you feel the same way too
I think i'm in love with you
I spend all my time on the telephone line
Tryin' to say it just right this time
Something that could change your mind
I know this is love and the feeling fair
Though I whisper somethin so sincere
Exactly what you want to hear
Honest I do, I can't see you and me and her without each other
And I hope you feel the same way too
I think I'm in love with you (you and me and her)
I hope you feel the same way too
I think I'm in love with you (you and me and her)
I hope you feel the same way too
I hope that you can feel the same way too
Doin' all the things that we never really did
I think I'm in love with you
Must we go run through our lives with our eyes closed
To the loving happiness that we can share
I think I'm in love with you and your friend
Honest I do, I can't see you and me and her without each other
And I hope you feel the same way too (you and me and her)
I spend all my time on the telephone line
Tryin' to say it just right this time
Something that could change your mind
I know this is love and here before
Though I whisper somethin so sincere
Vaguely what you want to hear
Now you know the things that I say when I'm swimming
Through the flood of all my desire can be so unclear
But I know I'm in love with you
In my dreams I still see us in a tight embrace
In spite of all the things that people say when they stare
that's how I know I'm in love with you and your friend
Honest I do, I can't see you and me and her without each other
And I hope you feel the same way too
I think i'm in love with you
I spend all my time on the telephone line
Tryin' to say it just right this time
Something that could change your mind
I know this is love and the feeling fair
Though I whisper somethin so sincere
Exactly what you want to hear
Honest I do, I can't see you and me and her without each other
And I hope you feel the same way too
I think I'm in love with you (you and me and her)
I hope you feel the same way too
I think I'm in love with you (you and me and her)
I hope you feel the same way too
I hope that you can feel the same way too
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