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"
have you ever been so worried about something that when you woke up it's the first thing on your mind? and you cried yourself to sleep to just forget it, but when you wake up it's all that you can find to think about? and you're not even allowed the luxury of disorientation, no, your concentration hones right in on what you meant to forget.
well, i did it to you. now you done it to me, and as if you care, i can hardly breathe and i clutch my chest with the same two hands that once touched your face but now they can't.
do you ever get so sick and tired of everything always going wrong and you do not want to feel inspired to write another stupid song cos songs can't hug you. songs don't love you. you spit them out and they float above you teasing you with all the dreams that you buried in the piano strings.
well i did it to you, now you done it to me, and as if you care, i can hardly breathe, and i clutch my chest with the same two hands that once touched your face but now they can't.
i don't want to remember this. i want it to be gone. i don't want no therapist. i just want to move on. i don't want to remember this. i want it to be gone. no, i can't keep feeling this. i have to move on.
well i did it to you now you done it to me and as if you care i can hardly breathe as i clutch my pillow cos it's all i got cos you once were mine but now you're not
and i'm mad as hell cos i'm mad about you and i dont wanna go on without you but it's your life and you have made your own choices.
well i did it to you now you done it to me and i know you care but it's still hard to breathe and i clutch my chest with my shaking hands oh to do what's best we'll do all we can
well, i did it to you. now you done it to me, and as if you care, i can hardly breathe and i clutch my chest with the same two hands that once touched your face but now they can't.
do you ever get so sick and tired of everything always going wrong and you do not want to feel inspired to write another stupid song cos songs can't hug you. songs don't love you. you spit them out and they float above you teasing you with all the dreams that you buried in the piano strings.
well i did it to you, now you done it to me, and as if you care, i can hardly breathe, and i clutch my chest with the same two hands that once touched your face but now they can't.
i don't want to remember this. i want it to be gone. i don't want no therapist. i just want to move on. i don't want to remember this. i want it to be gone. no, i can't keep feeling this. i have to move on.
well i did it to you now you done it to me and as if you care i can hardly breathe as i clutch my pillow cos it's all i got cos you once were mine but now you're not
and i'm mad as hell cos i'm mad about you and i dont wanna go on without you but it's your life and you have made your own choices.
well i did it to you now you done it to me and i know you care but it's still hard to breathe and i clutch my chest with my shaking hands oh to do what's best we'll do all we can
Lyrics submitted by battaryacid
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