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"
Sou mezame no warui asa kara hajimaru
Shizumaru kuuki wo yobizamashi
Somaru taiyou ni sukoshi me wo sorashi tomaru
Ganaru tomodachi no koe ga kikoete kuru
Higashi e nishi e hibi wa nagare
Sorezore ni nanika hyougen shitsuzukeru
Hoho wo naderu kaze wa suzushige nanige ni
Nanika wo tsukamikaketeru ima
Shounenba de ba tsunagi no egao
Furimaku tabi ni kanjiru haibokukan
Kanki no naka e tobikomu toki
Nouri wo yokogiru no wa sou sekininkan
Tomaru koto ga yurusarenu ima
Ikiisogu koto wo eranda kako
Ganjigarame no seikatsu no naka
Ato oshi suru kimitachi no koe ga hibiku
Kuuki wo sutte mirai e to susume
Kimitachi no koe ga hibiku kagiri
Hakobune wa yurete tsuzukete iku
Iku ate mo naku tadayou no de wa naku
Misueta yume mezashite kaji wo toru
Kasuka demo kakujitsu ni zenshin
Taisetsu na no wa mae ni deru shisei
Osore kara kuru ippo no okure
Sore ga motarasu chimeiteki na loss
Nayamu mae ni karada de hannou
Yuuki aru mono ga mochiuru honnou
Kake nukero jidai wo mirai e to susume kuuki wo sutte
Furihodoke osore wo daichi wo fumishime arukidasou
Mitasarenu sekai nuritsubushite susume
Kimitachi no koe ga tsutsumikonda
Kono basho kara mata arukidasou
Hikari kagayaku sora no mukou
Tsukinuketai to omou nara susmou
Mouzen to tada tachimukaitsuzuke
Tsukaretara koko de hitoyasumi
Higashi e nishi e hibi wa nagare
Sorezore ni nanika hyougen shitsuzukeru
Hoho wo naderu kaze wa suzushige
Ima wa me no mae no teki wo niramitsukero
Tsukinukero sora e ryoute wo ippai ni hirogete ikou
Keritobase fuan wo
Ima wa me no mae no doa wo akeyou
Kumo no kirema ni mie kakure suru mirai
Ima susunderu negai wo chikakiwatare
Kakenukero jidai wo mirai e to iza susume
Tsukinukero sora e saa ryoute wo hirogete
Shizumaru kuuki wo yobizamashi
Somaru taiyou ni sukoshi me wo sorashi tomaru
Ganaru tomodachi no koe ga kikoete kuru
Higashi e nishi e hibi wa nagare
Sorezore ni nanika hyougen shitsuzukeru
Hoho wo naderu kaze wa suzushige nanige ni
Nanika wo tsukamikaketeru ima
Shounenba de ba tsunagi no egao
Furimaku tabi ni kanjiru haibokukan
Kanki no naka e tobikomu toki
Nouri wo yokogiru no wa sou sekininkan
Tomaru koto ga yurusarenu ima
Ikiisogu koto wo eranda kako
Ganjigarame no seikatsu no naka
Ato oshi suru kimitachi no koe ga hibiku
Kuuki wo sutte mirai e to susume
Kimitachi no koe ga hibiku kagiri
Hakobune wa yurete tsuzukete iku
Iku ate mo naku tadayou no de wa naku
Misueta yume mezashite kaji wo toru
Kasuka demo kakujitsu ni zenshin
Taisetsu na no wa mae ni deru shisei
Osore kara kuru ippo no okure
Sore ga motarasu chimeiteki na loss
Nayamu mae ni karada de hannou
Yuuki aru mono ga mochiuru honnou
Kake nukero jidai wo mirai e to susume kuuki wo sutte
Furihodoke osore wo daichi wo fumishime arukidasou
Mitasarenu sekai nuritsubushite susume
Kimitachi no koe ga tsutsumikonda
Kono basho kara mata arukidasou
Hikari kagayaku sora no mukou
Tsukinuketai to omou nara susmou
Mouzen to tada tachimukaitsuzuke
Tsukaretara koko de hitoyasumi
Higashi e nishi e hibi wa nagare
Sorezore ni nanika hyougen shitsuzukeru
Hoho wo naderu kaze wa suzushige
Ima wa me no mae no teki wo niramitsukero
Tsukinukero sora e ryoute wo ippai ni hirogete ikou
Keritobase fuan wo
Ima wa me no mae no doa wo akeyou
Kumo no kirema ni mie kakure suru mirai
Ima susunderu negai wo chikakiwatare
Kakenukero jidai wo mirai e to iza susume
Tsukinukero sora e saa ryoute wo hirogete
Lyrics submitted by Gothy_Bura
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