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"
she came out of salon and she was walking sideways
she got into her car and turned the steering wheel my way
the lifters only pulled her into the corners of her eyes
the walls fall all around her sunny skies
she suffered from debatable afflictions
don't remember her sick before she got the prescription
she always wore sunglasses, she thought they made her look so goddamn cool
shaking with the dog out back by the swimming pool
everytime her name comes up i stare into my coffee cup
everytime the jets fly over, pretty little overdoser
taking two kinds of pills from just one container
swallowing them both without any water
sometimes they stick in her throat, but in the morning everything's alright
we could all use a little sleep tonight
everytime her name comes up i stare into my coffee cup
everytime the movie's over, pretty little overdoser
slumped beneath her theater seat, smiling like a nominee, yeah
swimming pool had purple lights, those purple drinks were dynamite
i woke up, i was black and blue, hey girl what did we do?
said you might remember pretty soon
i hope you don't remember pretty soon
think it was a three day rave
think i got the flyer saved
we were naked on a sunday afternoon
made it until sunday afternoon
she got into her car and turned the steering wheel my way
the lifters only pulled her into the corners of her eyes
the walls fall all around her sunny skies
she suffered from debatable afflictions
don't remember her sick before she got the prescription
she always wore sunglasses, she thought they made her look so goddamn cool
shaking with the dog out back by the swimming pool
everytime her name comes up i stare into my coffee cup
everytime the jets fly over, pretty little overdoser
taking two kinds of pills from just one container
swallowing them both without any water
sometimes they stick in her throat, but in the morning everything's alright
we could all use a little sleep tonight
everytime her name comes up i stare into my coffee cup
everytime the movie's over, pretty little overdoser
slumped beneath her theater seat, smiling like a nominee, yeah
swimming pool had purple lights, those purple drinks were dynamite
i woke up, i was black and blue, hey girl what did we do?
said you might remember pretty soon
i hope you don't remember pretty soon
think it was a three day rave
think i got the flyer saved
we were naked on a sunday afternoon
made it until sunday afternoon
Lyrics submitted by PLANES
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