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"
Move closer, set my mind on fire
Taking over
The world seems so alive
The world seems so alive
She slips into the night, and she is gone
Gone to set the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her Brother started school
Again today
A thought to pass the time,
To occupy my mind
While I'm waiting for her
Down in the basement
Listening to the rain
Thinking things over
I think it over again
Think it over again
She slipped into the night, and she is gone
Gone to set the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her Brother started school
Again today
A thought to pass the time,
To occupy my mind
While I'm waiting for her
I'm riding it down
Listening to the rain
She'll be here soon
I lie back and drift away
I lie back and drift away
She slipped into the night, and she is gone
Gone to set the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her Brother started school
Again today
A thought to pass the time,
To occupy my mind
While I'm waiting for her
I'm feeling so alive
Feeling so real
On this stormy night
The rain is coming down
Rain like never before
I've got some records on
And some bottles of wine
On this stormy night
The rain is lashing down
And I'm waiting for her
Taking over
The world seems so alive
The world seems so alive
She slips into the night, and she is gone
Gone to set the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her Brother started school
Again today
A thought to pass the time,
To occupy my mind
While I'm waiting for her
Down in the basement
Listening to the rain
Thinking things over
I think it over again
Think it over again
She slipped into the night, and she is gone
Gone to set the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her Brother started school
Again today
A thought to pass the time,
To occupy my mind
While I'm waiting for her
I'm riding it down
Listening to the rain
She'll be here soon
I lie back and drift away
I lie back and drift away
She slipped into the night, and she is gone
Gone to set the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her Brother started school
Again today
A thought to pass the time,
To occupy my mind
While I'm waiting for her
I'm feeling so alive
Feeling so real
On this stormy night
The rain is coming down
Rain like never before
I've got some records on
And some bottles of wine
On this stormy night
The rain is lashing down
And I'm waiting for her
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