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"
This isn't about you
Or the life she's leading through you
Just every passing day
Leaves me wondering what is really true
Expecting to find you sleeping soundly
Through and through
Sadness comes misplaced
And ends are means by which to uncover truth
Happiness will come when you are with the one
Who can take you to places you never were
But always knew
I'm coming for the ride
And you can say it's too safe inside
You cannot realize it's taking time
I'm taking it in stride
I'm sure it's safer inside
You just can't realize but you're such a person
Wake up every morning, every morning
With her name in your head, you can survive
But you say I'm not half what I wish
I was so much back then
There is no end and no room for pretend
Feeling only this, I cannot fathom it
There's no escape from uncertain fate
There is no excuse, why did this happen to you
Can our lives be made up
From what's been left in time
You're feeling time crushing at the spine
And you're tired and I'm tired
We're so tired, yeah
You're tired inside
You just can't realize what's wrong
Or what it's like to be something
Oh you've come a long way
And I know everything feels gone
Will you see this through
Or will you say it's through
Everything seems so gone to you
Or the life she's leading through you
Just every passing day
Leaves me wondering what is really true
Expecting to find you sleeping soundly
Through and through
Sadness comes misplaced
And ends are means by which to uncover truth
Happiness will come when you are with the one
Who can take you to places you never were
But always knew
I'm coming for the ride
And you can say it's too safe inside
You cannot realize it's taking time
I'm taking it in stride
I'm sure it's safer inside
You just can't realize but you're such a person
Wake up every morning, every morning
With her name in your head, you can survive
But you say I'm not half what I wish
I was so much back then
There is no end and no room for pretend
Feeling only this, I cannot fathom it
There's no escape from uncertain fate
There is no excuse, why did this happen to you
Can our lives be made up
From what's been left in time
You're feeling time crushing at the spine
And you're tired and I'm tired
We're so tired, yeah
You're tired inside
You just can't realize what's wrong
Or what it's like to be something
Oh you've come a long way
And I know everything feels gone
Will you see this through
Or will you say it's through
Everything seems so gone to you
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