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"
Since I was born, they couldn't hold me down.
Another misfit kid,in another burned-out town.
I never played by the rules, I never really cared.
My nasty reputation takes me everywhere.
I look and see it's not only me,
So many others have stood where I stand,
We are the young so raise your hands.
They call us problem child,
We spend our lives on trial,
We walk an endless mile,
We are the youth gone wild.
We stand and we won't fall,
We're one and one for all,
The writing's on the wall,
We are the youth gone wild.
Boss screamin' in my ear 'bout who I'm supposed to be.
"In a 3-piece Wall Street smile and son you'll look just like me."
Well I said "Hey man, there's something that you oughta know.
Park Avenue leads to Skid Row."
I look and see it's not only me,
We're standin' tall, ain't never a doubt,
We are the young, so shout it out!
They call us problem child,
We spend our lives on trial,
We walk an endless mile,
We are the youth gone wild.
We stand and we won't fall,
We're one and one for all,
The writing's on the wall,
We are the youth gone wild.
Lemme hear ya get wild!!
They call us problem child,
We spend our lives on trial,
We walk an endless mile,
We are the youth gone wild.
We stand and we won't fall,
We're one and one for all,
The writing's on the wall,
We are the youth gone wild!
Whoa whoa whoa
We are the youth gone wild!
Whoa whoa whoa
We are the youth gone wild!
Yeah yeah yeah
We are the youth gone wild!
Whoa whoa whoa
We are the youth gone wild!
Another misfit kid,in another burned-out town.
I never played by the rules, I never really cared.
My nasty reputation takes me everywhere.
I look and see it's not only me,
So many others have stood where I stand,
We are the young so raise your hands.
They call us problem child,
We spend our lives on trial,
We walk an endless mile,
We are the youth gone wild.
We stand and we won't fall,
We're one and one for all,
The writing's on the wall,
We are the youth gone wild.
Boss screamin' in my ear 'bout who I'm supposed to be.
"In a 3-piece Wall Street smile and son you'll look just like me."
Well I said "Hey man, there's something that you oughta know.
Park Avenue leads to Skid Row."
I look and see it's not only me,
We're standin' tall, ain't never a doubt,
We are the young, so shout it out!
They call us problem child,
We spend our lives on trial,
We walk an endless mile,
We are the youth gone wild.
We stand and we won't fall,
We're one and one for all,
The writing's on the wall,
We are the youth gone wild.
Lemme hear ya get wild!!
They call us problem child,
We spend our lives on trial,
We walk an endless mile,
We are the youth gone wild.
We stand and we won't fall,
We're one and one for all,
The writing's on the wall,
We are the youth gone wild!
Whoa whoa whoa
We are the youth gone wild!
Whoa whoa whoa
We are the youth gone wild!
Yeah yeah yeah
We are the youth gone wild!
Whoa whoa whoa
We are the youth gone wild!
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