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"
Shut up
I'm about to take all your innocence for free
In the end you're gonna want to pay me any and everything
Shut up
I'm about to tell you how I won the war
Won't tell you what or how or when
In the end you're never ever ever gonna ask what for
Hello hello hello hello hello hello
Are you talking to me
Hello hello hello hello hello hello
Breathe, baby, breathe
Shut up
I'm about to tell you about the difference you'll never make
And win the war with no regrets no hurt no pain no shame
Shut up
I'm about to tell you some secrets you'll never know
Now don't ask what don't moan don't cry don't even ask what this is gonna go
Hello hello hello hello hello hello
Are you talking to me
Hello hello hello hello hello hello
Breathe, baby, breathe
What's the matter?
My babys dead
His heart went blind on me
My dress caught fire with one match that you gave me
And all that's left is your bail and the breath I got
I won't change and you're missing me 'cause your phonecalls gone and...
No-ones coming
No-nes coming
No-ones coming
No-ones coming for you
Hello hello hello hello hello
My dress on fire
Hello hello hello hello hello
It's burning down
Hello hello hello hello hello
I got no desire
Would you believe this
Same day
Same year
Ring around the rosey
Yeah addicted to all that shit
Pocket full of real estate
Tax return
Don't you hate when it all burns down
Die die dust dust
Fire baby, fire baby, fire baby, fire baby
Fire
I'm about to take all your innocence for free
In the end you're gonna want to pay me any and everything
Shut up
I'm about to tell you how I won the war
Won't tell you what or how or when
In the end you're never ever ever gonna ask what for
Hello hello hello hello hello hello
Are you talking to me
Hello hello hello hello hello hello
Breathe, baby, breathe
Shut up
I'm about to tell you about the difference you'll never make
And win the war with no regrets no hurt no pain no shame
Shut up
I'm about to tell you some secrets you'll never know
Now don't ask what don't moan don't cry don't even ask what this is gonna go
Hello hello hello hello hello hello
Are you talking to me
Hello hello hello hello hello hello
Breathe, baby, breathe
What's the matter?
My babys dead
His heart went blind on me
My dress caught fire with one match that you gave me
And all that's left is your bail and the breath I got
I won't change and you're missing me 'cause your phonecalls gone and...
No-ones coming
No-nes coming
No-ones coming
No-ones coming for you
Hello hello hello hello hello
My dress on fire
Hello hello hello hello hello
It's burning down
Hello hello hello hello hello
I got no desire
Would you believe this
Same day
Same year
Ring around the rosey
Yeah addicted to all that shit
Pocket full of real estate
Tax return
Don't you hate when it all burns down
Die die dust dust
Fire baby, fire baby, fire baby, fire baby
Fire
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