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"
Remember the time when we first met
I wish I could see you standing
There so tall, so proud of it all
And through the years you helped me grow
Sometimes fast and sometimes oh so slow
I just want you to know that I
still see you everywhere
and by now I think I should care
All my life that you won't see
Just came rushing over me
How amazing is this grace when I throw it in your face?
Twenty some odd years ago
Never guessed, how could you know?
Memories of you erased, lonely, broken, lost, replaced
All I ever knew of you
believed in me but now we'll see
Can't tell you why but I can show you how
Everywhere I still see you
Waking daydreams strange looks disappointing
Shameless sunsets are losing faith in me
But I'll keep holding them high
If it keeps you here with me
Back and forth my conscience sway
I speak truly everyday
My whole life has been a lie
Up and down until I die
Promise me that you were real
Guilt regrets the way I feel
One too many lessons learned
Feelings spurned and we got burned
Bridges not long after
You were gone but did you matter
To me; live through me
And I will show you how
I deal with you now
People always coming up to me
telling how sorry they are
and how much you should mean...
well I can answer that:
He's not your dad
I'm sick of sympathy for shit you'll never understand
So when you give your best
Just like the rest
You're not giving anything I don't already have
so take it back
Everywhere I still see you
Waking daydreams strange looks disappointing
Shameless sunsets are losing faith in me
But I'll keep holding them high
If it keeps you here with me
I wish I could see you standing
There so tall, so proud of it all
And through the years you helped me grow
Sometimes fast and sometimes oh so slow
I just want you to know that I
still see you everywhere
and by now I think I should care
All my life that you won't see
Just came rushing over me
How amazing is this grace when I throw it in your face?
Twenty some odd years ago
Never guessed, how could you know?
Memories of you erased, lonely, broken, lost, replaced
All I ever knew of you
believed in me but now we'll see
Can't tell you why but I can show you how
Everywhere I still see you
Waking daydreams strange looks disappointing
Shameless sunsets are losing faith in me
But I'll keep holding them high
If it keeps you here with me
Back and forth my conscience sway
I speak truly everyday
My whole life has been a lie
Up and down until I die
Promise me that you were real
Guilt regrets the way I feel
One too many lessons learned
Feelings spurned and we got burned
Bridges not long after
You were gone but did you matter
To me; live through me
And I will show you how
I deal with you now
People always coming up to me
telling how sorry they are
and how much you should mean...
well I can answer that:
He's not your dad
I'm sick of sympathy for shit you'll never understand
So when you give your best
Just like the rest
You're not giving anything I don't already have
so take it back
Everywhere I still see you
Waking daydreams strange looks disappointing
Shameless sunsets are losing faith in me
But I'll keep holding them high
If it keeps you here with me
Lyrics submitted by nikki04
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