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"
I've informed you to leave
'Cause I can't afford to lose more sleep
I get ill when I get tired
So I'll try to rest if you'll stand guard
Do, do-do-do, do, do-do-do, whoa
Do, do-do-do, do-do-do
I've informed you to leave
'Cause I can't stand to hear you breathe
I chew up and I choke down
The scraps you choose to leave around
Do, do-do-do, do, do-do-do, whoa
Do, do-do-do, do-do-do
Apparitions still won't leave me alone
It's as if you never left
How am I supposed to remember you
When you won't let me forget?
I've informed you to leave (I've informed you to leave)
'Cause I can't afford to lose more sleep (I can't afford to lose more sleep)
There's your shoes, and there's the door (there's your shoes, and there's the door)
Please don't come here anymore (please don't come)
Do, do-do-do, do, do-do-do, whoa
Do, do-do-do, do-do-do
'Cause I can't afford to lose more sleep
I get ill when I get tired
So I'll try to rest if you'll stand guard
Do, do-do-do, do, do-do-do, whoa
Do, do-do-do, do-do-do
I've informed you to leave
'Cause I can't stand to hear you breathe
I chew up and I choke down
The scraps you choose to leave around
Do, do-do-do, do, do-do-do, whoa
Do, do-do-do, do-do-do
Apparitions still won't leave me alone
It's as if you never left
How am I supposed to remember you
When you won't let me forget?
I've informed you to leave (I've informed you to leave)
'Cause I can't afford to lose more sleep (I can't afford to lose more sleep)
There's your shoes, and there's the door (there's your shoes, and there's the door)
Please don't come here anymore (please don't come)
Do, do-do-do, do, do-do-do, whoa
Do, do-do-do, do-do-do
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According to the podcast, after his brother's death, Ed would dream that his brother was still there ("Apparition still won't leave me alone") and that he couldn't mourne him properly because it was like he was still alive ("How am I supposed to remember you when you won't let me forget?") Probably my favorite BNL lyric of all time.
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TheseApples you are right! that is also on the YouTube bathroom sessions. great stuff...