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"
As I recall when my stomach turned
And I was hiding away from myself
Away from you
Like nothing but something was terribly wrong
And I admit that I was only waiting for the right time (right time)
Right moment for you to look away
Though you never did I pretended for a while
So I could walk where I don't belong
I remember every word you said
Come back in time come back
And I remember I was too beaten
Pitiful so pitiful
But I know as they hammered those nails
Into your beautiful hands
Your eyes they tried to search for mine
But I look away
Now your eyes are the only thing that can save me
I'm still afraid of them piercin'
You break into my prison
Just pretended for a while
My soul is sad and I walk away
I remember every word you said
Come back in time come back
And I remember I was too beaten
Pitiful so pitiful
Pitiful
Pitiful
Pitiful
Pitiful
So pitiful
And I remember every word you said
But this time I won't look away
And I remember every word you said
And this time I won't look away
And I remember every word you said
Come back in time come back
And I remember I was so beaten
Pitiful so pitiful
And I remember every word you said (pitiful)
Come back in time come back (pitiful)
And I remember I was too beaten (pitiful)
Pitiful so pitiful
And I was hiding away from myself
Away from you
Like nothing but something was terribly wrong
And I admit that I was only waiting for the right time (right time)
Right moment for you to look away
Though you never did I pretended for a while
So I could walk where I don't belong
I remember every word you said
Come back in time come back
And I remember I was too beaten
Pitiful so pitiful
But I know as they hammered those nails
Into your beautiful hands
Your eyes they tried to search for mine
But I look away
Now your eyes are the only thing that can save me
I'm still afraid of them piercin'
You break into my prison
Just pretended for a while
My soul is sad and I walk away
I remember every word you said
Come back in time come back
And I remember I was too beaten
Pitiful so pitiful
Pitiful
Pitiful
Pitiful
Pitiful
So pitiful
And I remember every word you said
But this time I won't look away
And I remember every word you said
And this time I won't look away
And I remember every word you said
Come back in time come back
And I remember I was so beaten
Pitiful so pitiful
And I remember every word you said (pitiful)
Come back in time come back (pitiful)
And I remember I was too beaten (pitiful)
Pitiful so pitiful
Lyrics submitted by coolhandluke
Pitiful Lyrics as written by Marcus Tobias Dahlstroem Christian Thell Lindskog
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