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"
Tell me a story where we all change
And we´d live our lives together
And not estranged
I didn´t lose my mind it was mine to give away
Couldn´t stay to watch me cry, you didn´t have the time
So I softly slip away...
No regrets, they don´t work
No regrets now, they only hurt
Sing me a love song, drop me a line
Suppose it´s just a point of view
But they tell me I´m doing fine
I know from the outside we looked good for each other
Felt things were going wrong when you didn´t like my mother
I don´t want to hate but that´s all you´ve left me with
A bitter aftertaste and a fantasy of how we all could live
No regrets, they don´t work
No regrets now, they only hurt
(We´ve been told you stay up late)
I know they´re still talking
(You´re far too short to carry weight)
The demons in your head
(Return the videos they´re late)
If i could just stop hating you
(Goodbye)
I feel sorry for us instead
Remember the photographs (insane)
The ones where we all laugh (so lame)
We were having the time of our lives
Well thank you it was a real blast
No regrets, they don´t work
No regrets now, they only hurt
(We´ve been told you stay up late)
Write me a love song, drop me a line
(You´re far too short to carry weight)
Suppose it´s just a point of view
(Return the videos they´re late)
But they tell me I´m doing fine
Everything I wanted to be, every time I walked away
Every time you told me "Leave" I just wanted to stay
Every time you looked at me and every time you smiled
I felt so vacant you treat me like a child
I loved the way we used to laugh
I loved the way we used to smile
Often I sit down and think of you for a while
Then it passes me by and I think of someone else instead
I guess the love we once had is officially
Dead.
And we´d live our lives together
And not estranged
I didn´t lose my mind it was mine to give away
Couldn´t stay to watch me cry, you didn´t have the time
So I softly slip away...
No regrets, they don´t work
No regrets now, they only hurt
Sing me a love song, drop me a line
Suppose it´s just a point of view
But they tell me I´m doing fine
I know from the outside we looked good for each other
Felt things were going wrong when you didn´t like my mother
I don´t want to hate but that´s all you´ve left me with
A bitter aftertaste and a fantasy of how we all could live
No regrets, they don´t work
No regrets now, they only hurt
(We´ve been told you stay up late)
I know they´re still talking
(You´re far too short to carry weight)
The demons in your head
(Return the videos they´re late)
If i could just stop hating you
(Goodbye)
I feel sorry for us instead
Remember the photographs (insane)
The ones where we all laugh (so lame)
We were having the time of our lives
Well thank you it was a real blast
No regrets, they don´t work
No regrets now, they only hurt
(We´ve been told you stay up late)
Write me a love song, drop me a line
(You´re far too short to carry weight)
Suppose it´s just a point of view
(Return the videos they´re late)
But they tell me I´m doing fine
Everything I wanted to be, every time I walked away
Every time you told me "Leave" I just wanted to stay
Every time you looked at me and every time you smiled
I felt so vacant you treat me like a child
I loved the way we used to laugh
I loved the way we used to smile
Often I sit down and think of you for a while
Then it passes me by and I think of someone else instead
I guess the love we once had is officially
Dead.
Lyrics submitted by tjordaan
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