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"
Look around and tell me what you see
A place surrounded by the hate
That hides in the shadows
Inside of you, inside of me
What can we ever hope to see
If we're not looking
Don't you want to find your own way home again?
Just leave your hate behind
When will you learn to just be you?
Find your own way
When will you learn to follow through?
Make your own way
Looking for something to believe
I find the answer starts with me
Each time I follow
Inside of you, inside of me
What can we ever hope to be
If we're not trying
Don't you want to find your own way home again?
Just leave your hate behind
When will you learn to just be you?
Find your own way
When will you learn to follow through?
Make your own way
When will you learn to just be you?
Find your own way
When will you learn to follow through?
Make your own way
Find another way to get inside me
Find another way to get inside me
Find another way to get inside me
find yourself
Find another way to get inside me
Find another way to get inside me
Find another way to get inside me
Find yourself
Don't you want to find your own way home again?
Just leave your hate behind
When will you learn to just be you?
Find your own way
When will you learn to follow through?
Make your own way
When will you learn to just be you?
Find your own way
When will you learn to follow through?
Make your own way
(Make your own way, make your own way)
When will you learn to just be you?
(Make your own way)
When will you learn to follow through?
(Make your own way)
A place surrounded by the hate
That hides in the shadows
Inside of you, inside of me
What can we ever hope to see
If we're not looking
Don't you want to find your own way home again?
Just leave your hate behind
When will you learn to just be you?
Find your own way
When will you learn to follow through?
Make your own way
Looking for something to believe
I find the answer starts with me
Each time I follow
Inside of you, inside of me
What can we ever hope to be
If we're not trying
Don't you want to find your own way home again?
Just leave your hate behind
When will you learn to just be you?
Find your own way
When will you learn to follow through?
Make your own way
When will you learn to just be you?
Find your own way
When will you learn to follow through?
Make your own way
Find another way to get inside me
Find another way to get inside me
Find another way to get inside me
find yourself
Find another way to get inside me
Find another way to get inside me
Find another way to get inside me
Find yourself
Don't you want to find your own way home again?
Just leave your hate behind
When will you learn to just be you?
Find your own way
When will you learn to follow through?
Make your own way
When will you learn to just be you?
Find your own way
When will you learn to follow through?
Make your own way
(Make your own way, make your own way)
When will you learn to just be you?
(Make your own way)
When will you learn to follow through?
(Make your own way)
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