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"
Well, I opened my heart, and I let you in
I promised I'd never love again
And still doin' what I'd said I'd do
Someday I might get over you
I wear my ring on a chain now, still on my hand
And I deal with your memories the best I can
I've even been out on a date or two
Someday I might get over you
Oh, I never thought I'd see it
But I think I see the light now
I know that what I have to do
Is get on with my life, but I can't take another day
I can't face another night, so I just take another breath
And let it go
If I could ever feel the way I felt
I'll take a chance with someone else
And if my heart takes chances too
Someday I might get over you
Oh, I never thought I'd see it
But I think I see the light now
I know that what I have to do
Is get on with my life, but I can't take another day
I can't face another night, so I just take another breath
And let it go
Well, I opened my heart, and I let you in
I promised I'd never love again
Right now it's still somethin' I can't do
Someday I might get over you
Thought it may not be til my life is through
Someday I might get over you
I promised I'd never love again
And still doin' what I'd said I'd do
Someday I might get over you
I wear my ring on a chain now, still on my hand
And I deal with your memories the best I can
I've even been out on a date or two
Someday I might get over you
Oh, I never thought I'd see it
But I think I see the light now
I know that what I have to do
Is get on with my life, but I can't take another day
I can't face another night, so I just take another breath
And let it go
If I could ever feel the way I felt
I'll take a chance with someone else
And if my heart takes chances too
Someday I might get over you
Oh, I never thought I'd see it
But I think I see the light now
I know that what I have to do
Is get on with my life, but I can't take another day
I can't face another night, so I just take another breath
And let it go
Well, I opened my heart, and I let you in
I promised I'd never love again
Right now it's still somethin' I can't do
Someday I might get over you
Thought it may not be til my life is through
Someday I might get over you
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obvs. about a divorce... this song reminds me so much of my parents, and kind of my own situations, minus the marriage... cute.
He spilled all his emotions in this relationship that he was in, but in the end he got hurt. He no longer wants to think of her, although thoughts of her cross his mind. Basically he's trying to get over her, even if its gonna hurt him alot
"I wear my ring on a chain now" His ring, not hers.
This song is absolutely beautiful. It gives me goose bumps almost every time I hear it. I can relate to this, not in the way of marriage, but in the way of how one minute, all you'll be thinking of it one person, and they will completely consume every minute of your life in the best way possible, and then the next moment they're gone and it's never easy to fully get over that.
I agree with DreamAwake. I think its about losing someone in general, whether its from divorce, death, or anything. Just depends on the way that you would like to perceive it.