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 was just walking that day aimlessly
(Oh, oh no)
You picked a perfect day to bump into me
Probably should've watched the stars in the sky the night before
But for some reason we still met at your store
Your eyes have a story that they wish to tell
And I have my whole life and I listen well
Look, I'll be your confidant
Tell me anything
But please start it off with how you tuck your wings
There's nothing else that I have seen
There's no getting around it or in between
You're out of this world
Except you're not green
Look, you don't know what you mean
To me, to me
All my friends meet you and say you're the one
And all my meaningless friendships should be done
You had a friend but he did you wrong
But I'm a God sent sign that reads
Please move on with me
You taught me to use my heart and forget my eyes
And that's the way to His kingdom of eternal life
Since you're an angel, baby your job's never done
Too bad the world won't see you when they dial 9-1-1
There's nothing else that I have seen
There's no getting around it or in between
You're out of this world
Except you're not green
Look, you don't know what you mean
To me, to me
There's nothing else that I have seen
There's no getting around it or in between
You're out of this world
Except you're not green
Look, you don't know what you mean
To me, to me
There's nothin' else in this world
Like you
So why is it so complicated?
What are you afraid of?
I've been asking everybody what they think
But I don't know why because they don't know you
I'm even asking other guys what would they say
But I don't know why 'cause they don't do what I do
Girl, I say an ultimatums for you
But you'd probably take that and just run
Now I gotta decide if I'mma help raise your mind
Seems like the ultimatums or me that's no fun
I was just walking that day aimlessly
(Oh, oh no)
You picked a perfect day to bump into me
Probably should've watched the stars in the sky the night before
But for some reason we still met at your store
Your eyes have a story that they wish to tell
And I have my whole life and I listen well
Look, I'll be your confidant
Tell me anything
But please start it off with how you tuck your wings
There's nothing else that I have seen
There's no getting around it or in between
You're out of this world
Except you're not green
Look, you don't know what you mean
To me, to me
All my friends meet you and say you're the one
And all my meaningless friendships should be done
You had a friend but he did you wrong
But I'm a God sent sign that reads
Please move on with me
You taught me to use my heart and forget my eyes
And that's the way to His kingdom of eternal life
Since you're an angel, baby your job's never done
Too bad the world won't see you when they dial 9-1-1
There's nothing else that I have seen
There's no getting around it or in between
You're out of this world
Except you're not green
Look, you don't know what you mean
To me, to me
There's nothing else that I have seen
There's no getting around it or in between
You're out of this world
Except you're not green
Look, you don't know what you mean
To me, to me
There's nothin' else in this world
Like you
So why is it so complicated?
What are you afraid of?
I've been asking everybody what they think
But I don't know why because they don't know you
I'm even asking other guys what would they say
But I don't know why 'cause they don't do what I do
Girl, I say an ultimatums for you
But you'd probably take that and just run
Now I gotta decide if I'mma help raise your mind
Seems like the ultimatums or me that's no fun
I was just walking that day aimlessly
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