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"
Stayed awake for fifteen hours
Waiting on your reply
So I came outside to kill my lungs
And to kiss the night goodbye
I thought about your favorite sweater
Now I'm wishing it was at our feet
If I could change one thing about you
I'd call you Annalise
'Cause it's better than Jen
Hey Annalise
Wont you come with me to Central Park?
We'll catch a cab or we could stray from wheels
And walk this whole town block
But you don't respond, you're gonna end up dull
Much like your parents are
Hey Annalise, don't you ever feel the need to leave?
That's me, that's me
Scared of what you people will think
Well, I'm your favorite second-rate singer
Holding out both my hands
I'm cursed with the voice of a kid
And pent up three word commands
So tie the rope, tap the brake, cause a scene
Whatever keeps me in control
Because these bones have grown tiresome
And they can't seem to hold my soul
My whole heart, it's a joke
Hey Annalise
Wont you cross my mind on a stampede ride?
Screw Hollywood
'Cause we've got better things to do than fake our lives
But you don't respond
You're gonna end up dull
So won't you give up your birthright?
Hey Annalise
Don't you ever feel the need to leave?
That's me, that's me
Scared of what you people will think
Well, I'm alone
And I want something real
Not a name
I just want something real
I want the girl who won't disappear
Oh, I can see her in dark and dull colors
But coming in clear
Here she comes
Here she comes
Here she comes-omes-omes-omes
And there she goes
Waiting on your reply
So I came outside to kill my lungs
And to kiss the night goodbye
I thought about your favorite sweater
Now I'm wishing it was at our feet
If I could change one thing about you
I'd call you Annalise
'Cause it's better than Jen
Hey Annalise
Wont you come with me to Central Park?
We'll catch a cab or we could stray from wheels
And walk this whole town block
But you don't respond, you're gonna end up dull
Much like your parents are
Hey Annalise, don't you ever feel the need to leave?
That's me, that's me
Scared of what you people will think
Well, I'm your favorite second-rate singer
Holding out both my hands
I'm cursed with the voice of a kid
And pent up three word commands
So tie the rope, tap the brake, cause a scene
Whatever keeps me in control
Because these bones have grown tiresome
And they can't seem to hold my soul
My whole heart, it's a joke
Hey Annalise
Wont you cross my mind on a stampede ride?
Screw Hollywood
'Cause we've got better things to do than fake our lives
But you don't respond
You're gonna end up dull
So won't you give up your birthright?
Hey Annalise
Don't you ever feel the need to leave?
That's me, that's me
Scared of what you people will think
Well, I'm alone
And I want something real
Not a name
I just want something real
I want the girl who won't disappear
Oh, I can see her in dark and dull colors
But coming in clear
Here she comes
Here she comes
Here she comes-omes-omes-omes
And there she goes
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