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"
With starving appetites for arguments
you remind me of a secret
I was never supposed to tell
The time is up, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everbody wins
The time is up, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everybody wins
Did you know you were a saint?
What a shameful fall from grace.
But I'll catch you, I'll catch you
Everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto
While tripping over our own words to self-dug graves for an excuse to fall
Because every failure's just as sweet as the last
The time is up, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everybody wins
The tims is up, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everybody wins
Did you know you were a saint?
What a shameful fall from grace.
But I'll catch you, I'll catch you
Everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto
While tripping over our own words to self-dug graves for an excuse to fall
Because every failure's just as sweet as the last
The sun is set. The summer waiting, waiting
The sun is set. The summer waiting
Did you know we wear the same, the same pretentious name
Let's trade for a while, I'm so curious
Everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto
I'm tripping over our own words for an excuse to fall
Because every failure's just as sweet as the last
Every failures just as sweet as the last
you remind me of a secret
I was never supposed to tell
The time is up, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everbody wins
The time is up, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everybody wins
Did you know you were a saint?
What a shameful fall from grace.
But I'll catch you, I'll catch you
Everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto
While tripping over our own words to self-dug graves for an excuse to fall
Because every failure's just as sweet as the last
The time is up, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everybody wins
The tims is up, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everybody wins
Did you know you were a saint?
What a shameful fall from grace.
But I'll catch you, I'll catch you
Everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto
While tripping over our own words to self-dug graves for an excuse to fall
Because every failure's just as sweet as the last
The sun is set. The summer waiting, waiting
The sun is set. The summer waiting
Did you know we wear the same, the same pretentious name
Let's trade for a while, I'm so curious
Everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto
I'm tripping over our own words for an excuse to fall
Because every failure's just as sweet as the last
Every failures just as sweet as the last
Lyrics submitted by rjbucs28
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