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"
You know an apple a day
Won't keep the doctor away
Welcome to the cliches
welcome to the part
Where we want to finish
What we can't start
Come and get me
Just don't miss the water
Until the well is dry
You got to learn walking
After you can fly
Come and get me
What goes in, will get out
What goes up, comes right down
We go up, we go up, we go up
[Chorus]
You know an apple a day
(You know an apple a day)
Won't keep the doctor away
(Won't keep the doctor away)
Were never taught what we teach
And won't practice what we preach
You know an apple a day
(You know an apple a day)
Won't keep my troubles away
(Won't keep my troubles away)
Once bitten bye, bye
All the cliches is here to die
Just eat all the people
On your way up
'Cause they will eat your heart out
On your way down
Come and get me
Start what you can't finish
Stick to what you can't
Life is here to help us
Get things out of hand
Come and get us
What goes in, will get out
What goes up, comes right down
We go up, we go up, we go up
[Chorus]
'Cause you are what you're eating
('Cause you are what you're eating)
Don't stick to what's true
(Don't stick to what's true)
You are what you're eating
('Cause you are what you're eating)
Let it come as it came
We are what we are (we are)
What's build up will fall (will fall)
Do what you want (what you want)
And be happy, be happy, be happy
You know an apple a day
(You know an apple a day)
Won't keep the doctor away
(Won't keep the doctor away)
Were never taught what we teach
And won't practice what we preach
You know an apple a day
(You know an apple a day)
Won't keep my troubles away
(Won't keep my troubles away)
Once bitten bye, bye
All the cliches is here to die
'Cause you are what you're eating
('Cause you are what you're eating)
Don't stick to what's true
(Don't stick to what's true)
You are what you're eating
(You are what you're eating)
Let it come as it came
We are what we are (we are)
What's build up will fall (will fall)
Do what you want
And be happy
Won't keep the doctor away
Welcome to the cliches
welcome to the part
Where we want to finish
What we can't start
Come and get me
Just don't miss the water
Until the well is dry
You got to learn walking
After you can fly
Come and get me
What goes in, will get out
What goes up, comes right down
We go up, we go up, we go up
[Chorus]
You know an apple a day
(You know an apple a day)
Won't keep the doctor away
(Won't keep the doctor away)
Were never taught what we teach
And won't practice what we preach
You know an apple a day
(You know an apple a day)
Won't keep my troubles away
(Won't keep my troubles away)
Once bitten bye, bye
All the cliches is here to die
Just eat all the people
On your way up
'Cause they will eat your heart out
On your way down
Come and get me
Start what you can't finish
Stick to what you can't
Life is here to help us
Get things out of hand
Come and get us
What goes in, will get out
What goes up, comes right down
We go up, we go up, we go up
[Chorus]
'Cause you are what you're eating
('Cause you are what you're eating)
Don't stick to what's true
(Don't stick to what's true)
You are what you're eating
('Cause you are what you're eating)
Let it come as it came
We are what we are (we are)
What's build up will fall (will fall)
Do what you want (what you want)
And be happy, be happy, be happy
You know an apple a day
(You know an apple a day)
Won't keep the doctor away
(Won't keep the doctor away)
Were never taught what we teach
And won't practice what we preach
You know an apple a day
(You know an apple a day)
Won't keep my troubles away
(Won't keep my troubles away)
Once bitten bye, bye
All the cliches is here to die
'Cause you are what you're eating
('Cause you are what you're eating)
Don't stick to what's true
(Don't stick to what's true)
You are what you're eating
(You are what you're eating)
Let it come as it came
We are what we are (we are)
What's build up will fall (will fall)
Do what you want
And be happy
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Yes, I love it cause it's completely sarchastic. In my opinion, it talks about the things we're told, and how life turns out to be completely different!!. So we have to live and learn for ourselves.