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"
i dont know about you/but i know what i like to do to keep myself preoccupied with the finer things in life/No one knows what a keggler is but the secret's been let out/a keggler is the master of the bowling alley shout
The bowling alley's where ill be until 9:30/Trying to win the perfect game just to keep my fame/The bowling alley's where ill be so please come prepared/So you can hang around all of the kegglers
any time you see this man/he'll have his ball in his hand/he lines up his strike that he always gets right/he tears down the lane/hes already earned his fame/he is the master of this game
The bowling alley's where ill be until 9:30/Trying to win the perfect game just to keep my fame/The bowling alley's where ill be so please come prepared/So you can hang around all of the kegglers
another frame, another game, a perfect way to end the day/Of strikes and spares and crazy hair tonight/I won't lie to you/cause bowling's what i do/im a keggler at heart and i always will be
The bowling alley's where ill be until 9:30/Trying to win the perfect game just to keep my fame/The bowling alley's where ill be so please come prepared/So you can hang around all of the kegglers
The bowling alley's where ill be until 9:30/Trying to win the perfect game just to keep my fame/The bowling alley's where ill be so please come prepared/So you can hang around all of the kegglers
The bowling alley's where ill be until 9:30/Trying to win the perfect game just to keep my fame/The bowling alley's where ill be so please come prepared/So you can hang around all of the kegglers
any time you see this man/he'll have his ball in his hand/he lines up his strike that he always gets right/he tears down the lane/hes already earned his fame/he is the master of this game
The bowling alley's where ill be until 9:30/Trying to win the perfect game just to keep my fame/The bowling alley's where ill be so please come prepared/So you can hang around all of the kegglers
another frame, another game, a perfect way to end the day/Of strikes and spares and crazy hair tonight/I won't lie to you/cause bowling's what i do/im a keggler at heart and i always will be
The bowling alley's where ill be until 9:30/Trying to win the perfect game just to keep my fame/The bowling alley's where ill be so please come prepared/So you can hang around all of the kegglers
The bowling alley's where ill be until 9:30/Trying to win the perfect game just to keep my fame/The bowling alley's where ill be so please come prepared/So you can hang around all of the kegglers
Lyrics submitted by vansriotxxx
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