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 went out the door this morning. Walked along the concrete cracked and aged by elements that don't discriminate and don't give warning. And I walked alone.
I went up to 16th St. and looked into the windows of a restaurant. The guy standing next to me said it looked pretty good so I proceeded to give him a bunch of reasons why I didn't think the place could make it and he said, I think too much. And I said, I know.
I know my world is better than it seems and I try to be content with everything but even knowing doesn't stop your heart from feeling. That's why I'm going where I'm going
Going down, going down, down to Josie's house and that's where I'll play. Going down, going down, down to Josie's house and that's where I'll stay
I decided I'd be happier if only I could feel the cool, wet grass beneath my feet. I had tried it while I thought of all the words to make this song complete.
I went up to John St. Park and there I met an old lady feeding ducks. The back of her hand had been bleeding and she didn't even know it. She told me I'd be more handsome if I smiled. So we talked about the weather, she told me about her family and she said I should meet her granddaughter, and I smiled.
The smell of people in the street. I tasted life and life was sweet. The sound of colors in the air Of breathing mist and choral fare. Arriving anywhere in time, the feet are beating out a rhyme. I turned my body toward the south, I'm going down to Josie's house
I went up to 16th St. and looked into the windows of a restaurant. The guy standing next to me said it looked pretty good so I proceeded to give him a bunch of reasons why I didn't think the place could make it and he said, I think too much. And I said, I know.
I know my world is better than it seems and I try to be content with everything but even knowing doesn't stop your heart from feeling. That's why I'm going where I'm going
Going down, going down, down to Josie's house and that's where I'll play. Going down, going down, down to Josie's house and that's where I'll stay
I decided I'd be happier if only I could feel the cool, wet grass beneath my feet. I had tried it while I thought of all the words to make this song complete.
I went up to John St. Park and there I met an old lady feeding ducks. The back of her hand had been bleeding and she didn't even know it. She told me I'd be more handsome if I smiled. So we talked about the weather, she told me about her family and she said I should meet her granddaughter, and I smiled.
The smell of people in the street. I tasted life and life was sweet. The sound of colors in the air Of breathing mist and choral fare. Arriving anywhere in time, the feet are beating out a rhyme. I turned my body toward the south, I'm going down to Josie's house
Lyrics submitted by MooWasHere
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