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 wish there was a photograph
That showed me here with you
And I could kiss the photograph
And make my wish come true
I wish I was a humming dove
So I could sing so sweet
I wish that I could steal the moon
And kiss it with my feet
I wish I was a remedy
That you were meant to take
A product of a recipe
That no one had to bake
I wish I could forget that day
The hurting in my heart
And wash our mouths with listerine
To make a brand new start
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall down
I wish there was a fairytale
That turned into my life
So I could kiss prince charming
And be his princess wife
I wish the voices in my head
Would leave my ears alone
So my eyes would stop there water bleeding
And I could find a home
I wish there was a ruby rose
Where I spread my wings with you
So I could inhale the perfume
And be the morning dew
I wish the raindrops on the glass
Would let me join their dance
I'd spin and twirl and laugh with them
And drown my thoughts per chance
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall
Lalala I kinda like it
Lalala I kinda like it this way
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
That showed me here with you
And I could kiss the photograph
And make my wish come true
I wish I was a humming dove
So I could sing so sweet
I wish that I could steal the moon
And kiss it with my feet
I wish I was a remedy
That you were meant to take
A product of a recipe
That no one had to bake
I wish I could forget that day
The hurting in my heart
And wash our mouths with listerine
To make a brand new start
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall down
I wish there was a fairytale
That turned into my life
So I could kiss prince charming
And be his princess wife
I wish the voices in my head
Would leave my ears alone
So my eyes would stop there water bleeding
And I could find a home
I wish there was a ruby rose
Where I spread my wings with you
So I could inhale the perfume
And be the morning dew
I wish the raindrops on the glass
Would let me join their dance
I'd spin and twirl and laugh with them
And drown my thoughts per chance
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall
Lalala I kinda like it
Lalala I kinda like it this way
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain fall down
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Watching the rain
Lyrics submitted by indignity
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