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"
Uh-oh down low
I am not who I want to be
I probably will not ever be
I drove my car on June 14th
I drove it right on down the street
I had not had any sleep
So I ate Mini thins to stay awake
You crashed your car right into me
There's two days I didn't sleep
Uh-oh down low
I am not who I want to be
I probably will not ever be
I took a trip down to California
Karma payment plan
My car broke down out in the street
The radiator sprung a leak
I met this guy he said that he could help me
I'm on the karma payment plan
We went to his house and did some speed
He said karma would pay for this deed
He got it fixed and he started to scare me
I ditched him eventually
And came back for the van
The next morning
I'm on the karma payment plan
I went to LA the next day I got
Jacked in a real bad way
I can't tell you
Its a long story
I am not who I want to be
I probably will not ever be
I drove my car on June 14th
I drove it right on down the street
I had not had any sleep
So I ate Mini thins to stay awake
You crashed your car right into me
There's two days I didn't sleep
Uh-oh down low
I am not who I want to be
I probably will not ever be
I took a trip down to California
Karma payment plan
My car broke down out in the street
The radiator sprung a leak
I met this guy he said that he could help me
I'm on the karma payment plan
We went to his house and did some speed
He said karma would pay for this deed
He got it fixed and he started to scare me
I ditched him eventually
And came back for the van
The next morning
I'm on the karma payment plan
I went to LA the next day I got
Jacked in a real bad way
I can't tell you
Its a long story
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