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"
there's no accounting for taste i guess she said since you knew everyone that you ever met don't worry i'll see you soon and i believed you since then i haven't seen you i remember the time you were a friend of mine you were the one who said i don't mind from my house to the bus stop i see a dodge dart i pull up and it's scaring my heart again i didn't choose this pledges incorporate please stop going through it and my best behavior's to be my behavior next time you lay eyes on me i don't wanna try i don't wanna try some things should come naturally but if they don't you just can't force them cause if they won't you just can't force them is something up you said your foot down on the gas never looking back you are the lucky one who's driven me like a freeway stopping all free trade i blessed every nightmare you were the lucky one everywhere i go you've colored please leave the cold in the morning and before i can't hardly withstand the friend i've lost the best i ever had my poison hangs on you i really wish i didn't have to i can't just understand friend's life is a goner
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(thrusting on the ???) your foot down on the gas never looking back, you are the lucky one indifferent like a free way, stuck within a freeze frame five by seven nightmare and youth for the lucky ones everywhere i go you've colored
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"There's no accounting for taste, I guess," she said. It's just that you mirror everyone that you've ever met. "Don't worry, I'll see you soon," and I believed you. But since I haven't seen you. But in better times you were a friend of mine. You were the one who said, "I don't mind." From my house to the bus stop I see a Dodge Dart. I fall off and it gets scary in my heart again. I didn't choose this. Clenched fists and cold breath. Pissed off that we blew it. So my best behavior is to be on my behavior next time you lay eyes on me. But I don't want to "try." Some things should come naturally. But if they don't, you just can't force them. It's rusted on the side. You foot's down on the gas. You're never lookin' back. You are the lucky one. Indifferent like a freeway stuck within a freeze frame. A 5x7 nightmare and youth is for the lucky ones. Everywhere I go you've colored. Please leave the car in the morning. I feel old and I get ugly when I'm sad. I'm afraid I lost the best I ever had. I'm placing the X on you. I really wish I didn't have to. White kids outside the Sev break bottles in the gutter.