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"
Good morning
Paint the town, take a bow, thank everybody
You're gonna do it again
You are the few, the proud, you are the antibody
Mind, soul and Zen
And the world's a stage (and the world's a faze)
And the end is near
So push rewind, just in time, thank anybody
You're gonna do it again
The way that you walk
It's just the way that you talk
Like it ain't no thing
And every single day is just a fling
Then the morning comes
Take your knocks, shake 'em off, duck everybody
You're gonna take 'em again
You are your foe, your friend, you are the paparazzi
You are the tragedian
And the world's a craze (and the world's a faze)
And the end is near
So push rewind, just in time, thank anybody
You're gonna do it again
The way that you walk
It's just the way that you talk
Like it ain't no thing
And every single day is just a fling
And when it comes, it moves so slow
Kinda like it's saying I told you so
Looking back before she goes
Tomorrow's gonna hurt
And the world's a stage (and the world's a faze)
And the end is near
So push rewind, just in time, thank anybody
It's just the way that you walk
It's just the way that you talk
Like it ain't no thing
And every single day is just a fling
Then the morning comes
Paint the town, take a bow, thank everybody
You're gonna do it again
You are the few, the proud, you are the antibody
Mind, soul and Zen
And the world's a stage (and the world's a faze)
And the end is near
So push rewind, just in time, thank anybody
You're gonna do it again
The way that you walk
It's just the way that you talk
Like it ain't no thing
And every single day is just a fling
Then the morning comes
Take your knocks, shake 'em off, duck everybody
You're gonna take 'em again
You are your foe, your friend, you are the paparazzi
You are the tragedian
And the world's a craze (and the world's a faze)
And the end is near
So push rewind, just in time, thank anybody
You're gonna do it again
The way that you walk
It's just the way that you talk
Like it ain't no thing
And every single day is just a fling
And when it comes, it moves so slow
Kinda like it's saying I told you so
Looking back before she goes
Tomorrow's gonna hurt
And the world's a stage (and the world's a faze)
And the end is near
So push rewind, just in time, thank anybody
It's just the way that you walk
It's just the way that you talk
Like it ain't no thing
And every single day is just a fling
Then the morning comes
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everybody, to a certain extent, tries to take their knocks and shake them off. unless you're one of those people that drowns in self-pity and milks every semi-tragedy for all its worth, then you're gonna end doing your best to stay calm and collected about things. but underneath you're the tragedian, the actor in a tragic situation.
best part of the song, musically and lyrically-"when it comes it moves so slow...tomorrow's gonna hurt". for all of us who have been there, you know that tomorrow isn't gonna be pleasant. and voila, then the morning comes and you have to deal with it.