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"
There was a man around the corner
Well I know his son and I stole his daughter
I'd see him as I was driving past
He was always workin' on and workin' on and workin' on
An older man but not so old
Well he's lying in the ground now dead and cold
Well what's so hard is we're all confined
By the laws of something that's more divine
Anywhere and anyone, anytime and any reason
Everywhere and everyone has something going on
Anytime the sun don't shine or you're left behind or out of season
Constant changes moving on, shine over me
So I lost my sense of humour
I hope it's gonna find me sometime soon
Those times when you cannot be prepared
They suck the life right out of you
All you ask is to continue
But it leaves you spinning round and round
You don't need that pain within you
You've gotta wash it out, wash it out and kick it down
Anywhere and anyone, anytime or any reason
Everywhere and everyone has something going wrong
Anytime the sun don't shine or you're left behind or out of season
Constant changes moving on, shine over me
Well everywhere and everyone has many types of different reasons
Anytime that it all goes wrong just shine over me
Anytime you're left behind or the sun won't shine or you're out of
Season
Constant changes moving on, shine over me
Anywhere, anyone, anytime you care to mention
Everywhere and everyone has something going wrong
Anytime you're left behind and the heartache and the pain take over
Just stick around and shine over me
Shine over me
Well I know his son and I stole his daughter
I'd see him as I was driving past
He was always workin' on and workin' on and workin' on
An older man but not so old
Well he's lying in the ground now dead and cold
Well what's so hard is we're all confined
By the laws of something that's more divine
Anywhere and anyone, anytime and any reason
Everywhere and everyone has something going on
Anytime the sun don't shine or you're left behind or out of season
Constant changes moving on, shine over me
So I lost my sense of humour
I hope it's gonna find me sometime soon
Those times when you cannot be prepared
They suck the life right out of you
All you ask is to continue
But it leaves you spinning round and round
You don't need that pain within you
You've gotta wash it out, wash it out and kick it down
Anywhere and anyone, anytime or any reason
Everywhere and everyone has something going wrong
Anytime the sun don't shine or you're left behind or out of season
Constant changes moving on, shine over me
Well everywhere and everyone has many types of different reasons
Anytime that it all goes wrong just shine over me
Anytime you're left behind or the sun won't shine or you're out of
Season
Constant changes moving on, shine over me
Anywhere, anyone, anytime you care to mention
Everywhere and everyone has something going wrong
Anytime you're left behind and the heartache and the pain take over
Just stick around and shine over me
Shine over me
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