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 bright light beams
From her eyes
Like broken glass
Or a broken heart
Who would have guessed?
You'd leave me here
Beneath my eyes I feel the tears
I hold back
I won't leave, leave this way again
I won't leave this way
As my legs
They start to shake
I feel nothing
I wanted you (I wanted you)
I needed you
But you weren't there for me this time (there for me)
I won't leave, leave this way again
I won't leave this way
You that I loved!
That I needed!
You weren't there
Not this time!
You!
What can I do?!
I was supposed to love you!
What can I say?!
I won't leave
What can I do?!
I was supposed to help you!
I cannot feel you!
Last breath I feel!
Warm air intake!
Last summer's day!
Last one I take!
For you!
I won't leave!
Leave this way!
I won't leave
Lost it all!
All for you!
I won't leave
When the shadows beam!
Misery remains!
I won't leave this time
From her eyes
Like broken glass
Or a broken heart
Who would have guessed?
You'd leave me here
Beneath my eyes I feel the tears
I hold back
I won't leave, leave this way again
I won't leave this way
As my legs
They start to shake
I feel nothing
I wanted you (I wanted you)
I needed you
But you weren't there for me this time (there for me)
I won't leave, leave this way again
I won't leave this way
You that I loved!
That I needed!
You weren't there
Not this time!
You!
What can I do?!
I was supposed to love you!
What can I say?!
I won't leave
What can I do?!
I was supposed to help you!
I cannot feel you!
Last breath I feel!
Warm air intake!
Last summer's day!
Last one I take!
For you!
I won't leave!
Leave this way!
I won't leave
Lost it all!
All for you!
I won't leave
When the shadows beam!
Misery remains!
I won't leave this time
Lyrics submitted by malsetsfire, edited by marcos95
Last Days of Summer Lyrics as written by Shane Told Neil Boshart
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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