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"
Step up to me, Step up to me
You wanna be a big time player
it's not to be
Look at all the snide ass
actin like a wise ass
I'll fuck up your face
and you'll never look back
So when you fall to the ground
And finally get back to reality
And no one else is around
So tell me how does it feel to be the enemy?
Step up to me, Step up to me (PEZ!)(x2)
Step up to me, Step up to me
You wanna be a big time player
it’s not to be
Look at your face
look at your name
It's funny you’re a loser
with only yourself to blame
Cut your fucking hair now
scared of all the stare downs
You wanna be like me cause it's real
So you steal on your way to fame
Never gonna be
never gonna see
Your name in lights
you can always dream what ‘cha could've been
Clean up my shit
you look like a dick
Step to unemployment - step
So when you fall to the ground
And finally get back to reality
And no one else is around
So tell me how does it feel to be the enemy? (x2)
Step! Step up to me – step up
You’re the enemy! (x2)
So when you fall to the ground
And finally get back to reality
And no one else is around
So tell me how does it feel to be the enemy? (x2)
You're the enemy!
Step up to me, Step up to me (PEZ!)(x2)
Step up to me, Step up to me
You wanna be a big time player
it’s not to be!
You wanna be a big time player
it's not to be
Look at all the snide ass
actin like a wise ass
I'll fuck up your face
and you'll never look back
So when you fall to the ground
And finally get back to reality
And no one else is around
So tell me how does it feel to be the enemy?
Step up to me, Step up to me (PEZ!)(x2)
Step up to me, Step up to me
You wanna be a big time player
it’s not to be
Look at your face
look at your name
It's funny you’re a loser
with only yourself to blame
Cut your fucking hair now
scared of all the stare downs
You wanna be like me cause it's real
So you steal on your way to fame
Never gonna be
never gonna see
Your name in lights
you can always dream what ‘cha could've been
Clean up my shit
you look like a dick
Step to unemployment - step
So when you fall to the ground
And finally get back to reality
And no one else is around
So tell me how does it feel to be the enemy? (x2)
Step! Step up to me – step up
You’re the enemy! (x2)
So when you fall to the ground
And finally get back to reality
And no one else is around
So tell me how does it feel to be the enemy? (x2)
You're the enemy!
Step up to me, Step up to me (PEZ!)(x2)
Step up to me, Step up to me
You wanna be a big time player
it’s not to be!
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
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