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 feel like
I would like
To be somewhere else
Doing something that matters
And I'll admit here
While I sit here
My mind wastes away
And my doubts start to gather
What's the purpose?
It feels worthless
So unwanted, like I've lost of my value
I can't find it
Not in the least bit
And I'm just scared
So scared that I'll fail you
And sometimes I think
That I'm not any good at all
And sometimes
I wonder why
Why I'm even here at all
But then you assure me
I'm a little more than useless and
When I think that I can't do this
You promise me that I'll get through this
And do something right
Do something right for once
So I say if I can't
Do something significant
I'll opt to leave most opportunities wasted
And nothing trivial
That life could give me will
Measure up to what might have replaced it
To late look
My date book
Is packed full of days
That were empty and now gone
And I bet
That regret
Will prove to get me to improve in the long run
Sometimes I think that
I'm not any good at all
Sometimes I wonder why
I'm even here at all
But then you assure me
I'm a little more than useless and
When I think that I can't do this
You promise me that I'll get through this
And do something right
Do something right for once
I'm a little more than useless
And I never knew I knew this
Was gonna the day
Gonna be the day
That I will do something right
Do something right for once
I noticed
I know this
Week is a symbol of how I use my time
Resent it
I spent it
Convincing myself
The worlds doing just fine
Without me
Doing anything of any consequence
Without me
Showing any sign of ever making sense
Of my time
Its my life
And my right to use it like I should
Like he would
For the good
Of everything that I would ever know
I'm a little more than useless and
When I think that I can't do this
You promise me that I'll get through this
And do something right
Do something right for once
I'm a little more than useless
And I never knew I knew this
Was gonna the day
Gonna be the day
That I will do something right
Do something right for once
I would like
To be somewhere else
Doing something that matters
And I'll admit here
While I sit here
My mind wastes away
And my doubts start to gather
What's the purpose?
It feels worthless
So unwanted, like I've lost of my value
I can't find it
Not in the least bit
And I'm just scared
So scared that I'll fail you
And sometimes I think
That I'm not any good at all
And sometimes
I wonder why
Why I'm even here at all
But then you assure me
I'm a little more than useless and
When I think that I can't do this
You promise me that I'll get through this
And do something right
Do something right for once
So I say if I can't
Do something significant
I'll opt to leave most opportunities wasted
And nothing trivial
That life could give me will
Measure up to what might have replaced it
To late look
My date book
Is packed full of days
That were empty and now gone
And I bet
That regret
Will prove to get me to improve in the long run
Sometimes I think that
I'm not any good at all
Sometimes I wonder why
I'm even here at all
But then you assure me
I'm a little more than useless and
When I think that I can't do this
You promise me that I'll get through this
And do something right
Do something right for once
I'm a little more than useless
And I never knew I knew this
Was gonna the day
Gonna be the day
That I will do something right
Do something right for once
I noticed
I know this
Week is a symbol of how I use my time
Resent it
I spent it
Convincing myself
The worlds doing just fine
Without me
Doing anything of any consequence
Without me
Showing any sign of ever making sense
Of my time
Its my life
And my right to use it like I should
Like he would
For the good
Of everything that I would ever know
I'm a little more than useless and
When I think that I can't do this
You promise me that I'll get through this
And do something right
Do something right for once
I'm a little more than useless
And I never knew I knew this
Was gonna the day
Gonna be the day
That I will do something right
Do something right for once
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