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"
You can try to fight this all you want
But I won't be here when you're all alone
With this new season brings with it signs of hope
You can't leave me waiting by the phone
And I know there is some place I can go
Where, where no one knows my name
And I still remember the sound of your voice
Although your silence staring so cold
Do you think I would call just to hear you breathe?
You always knew that just one word would dry up all my tears
And I know that there is some place I can go
Where, where no one knows my name
No one knows my name
But I won't be here when you're all alone
With this new season brings with it signs of hope
You can't leave me waiting by the phone
And I know there is some place I can go
Where, where no one knows my name
And I still remember the sound of your voice
Although your silence staring so cold
Do you think I would call just to hear you breathe?
You always knew that just one word would dry up all my tears
And I know that there is some place I can go
Where, where no one knows my name
No one knows my name
Lyrics submitted by geekusa
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sam malone also sounds kind of like say I'm alone. Idunno. just a though.
does anyone know what the one word that "dried up all his tears" could be? I'm baffled...