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"
The near death experience of our relationship had brought me down. Wasted tears were mine to cry. Its not my fault that your so different, its not my fault i didn't know you as well as i could. Did you know how much i thought i lost you? Putting you on a pedestal was so wrong. You belong down here, you belong down here with me.
Welcome back my friend
Its good to see you back where you belong
I'll never let myself get blind again
With the love that you told me is so wrong
Lifes not perfect so you're never gonna find that love
Lifes not perfect so you're never gonna find that love
I will never forget the way that your can turn me on. Though now that's quite contradicting. We will laugh now because of it. You know i couldn't help but be brought to my knees. Do you know how much you shouldn't be here? Doing these things we know are wrong. But i think i forgive you, yeah i think i forgive you i know, you forgive me.
Welcome home my friend
Its good that we are still going strong
I think its ok we gave in again
To the feelings that brought us back for more
Lifes not perfect so we shouldn't pretend to adore
Lifes not perfect so we shouldn't pretend to adore
But sometimes i get crazy
Yeah sometimes i get sad
I overreact and maybe,
I think of you and i get mad
For letting go, For leaving me, For saying no and scaring me
The tears i cried, i have to hide
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you need! oh, what do you need
Show me, What you need, Cuz it kills me, when you don't see...
Everything i do is for you.
I wish for once i'd remember you lack of feelings
I wish for once i'd just stop thinking that you'll love me
So do you still think of me respectfully? Even though you don't have a reason to. Kissings game is known to lie. Being away from you made me second guess. But when you're near me you're so precious i would die, if you would just realize how much i need you. Whether its right or if its wrong. Emotions elude me, yeah emotions confuse me but to hell with it all.
Stay with me my friend
You mean well that i can see
I think we're just fine where we're at right now
As long as you'll show me what you want us to be
Cuz i can't quite tell if the song you're singings for me
Yeah i know, you told me, I dont' quite get it
Welcome back my friend
Its good to see you back where you belong
I'll never let myself get blind again
With the love that you told me is so wrong
Lifes not perfect so you're never gonna find that love
Lifes not perfect so you're never gonna find that love
I will never forget the way that your can turn me on. Though now that's quite contradicting. We will laugh now because of it. You know i couldn't help but be brought to my knees. Do you know how much you shouldn't be here? Doing these things we know are wrong. But i think i forgive you, yeah i think i forgive you i know, you forgive me.
Welcome home my friend
Its good that we are still going strong
I think its ok we gave in again
To the feelings that brought us back for more
Lifes not perfect so we shouldn't pretend to adore
Lifes not perfect so we shouldn't pretend to adore
But sometimes i get crazy
Yeah sometimes i get sad
I overreact and maybe,
I think of you and i get mad
For letting go, For leaving me, For saying no and scaring me
The tears i cried, i have to hide
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you need! oh, what do you need
Show me, What you need, Cuz it kills me, when you don't see...
Everything i do is for you.
I wish for once i'd remember you lack of feelings
I wish for once i'd just stop thinking that you'll love me
So do you still think of me respectfully? Even though you don't have a reason to. Kissings game is known to lie. Being away from you made me second guess. But when you're near me you're so precious i would die, if you would just realize how much i need you. Whether its right or if its wrong. Emotions elude me, yeah emotions confuse me but to hell with it all.
Stay with me my friend
You mean well that i can see
I think we're just fine where we're at right now
As long as you'll show me what you want us to be
Cuz i can't quite tell if the song you're singings for me
Yeah i know, you told me, I dont' quite get it
Lyrics submitted by *mLe*
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