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 am deliriously cold hearted
Maybe I mean cold emotionally
Carrying a tote bag and letting my hope drag in a trail behind me
Wow! This is domestic traveling
And I don't mean to be unraveling my ball of problems all over your leaning shoulder
Wow! Deliriously colder
Wow! Why does philosophy eat philosophy and I'll sloppily have a talk with me
I probably have a lot to see and nothing to say in an irregular way
But that's just enough about me let's talk about me hanging out with a girl named Sally
(Speaking of) But my love's a party of one
At least I'm stable without any fun
It's like running in circles or running in squares
Or visiting twin Earth where green is blue but who cares
Not I said the simple sentence
Which in a sense is saying pop rock is not dead
I am deliriously cold hearted
Maybe I mean cold emotionally
This is serious cause I forgot how to have fun again
Shock
The sky's unlimited they got cute stuff
He's her guinea pig must be true love
And oh sure I know your so hard core
Involved in all of the socialite weights good flight rates to find dates
fifty states which may creates many breaks and hears ache double take
may re-make a marriage great
Wow! Spontaneous to fake you out
He or she should have taken him or her out
And discuss why there is no us
And shoot the breeze why there is no we
We will seek thrills in our fantasies but too much time killed in la la land
In demand of supply and dependent without knowing why bother
I can't seem to or wan to stop
i got to hand some strange genes down to my handsome son or daughter
Who are at this time just a thought in the back of my mind I opt not to yet
The thought is unstoppable probable profitable
In every way but my pocketbook
Bearable abominable karma comical
possible cause is jellyfish
Random
Pandemonium only when freedom is seen as just for your enjoyment
Furthermore is for your enjoyment
Furthermore is for your enjoyment
Maybe I mean cold emotionally
Carrying a tote bag and letting my hope drag in a trail behind me
Wow! This is domestic traveling
And I don't mean to be unraveling my ball of problems all over your leaning shoulder
Wow! Deliriously colder
Wow! Why does philosophy eat philosophy and I'll sloppily have a talk with me
I probably have a lot to see and nothing to say in an irregular way
But that's just enough about me let's talk about me hanging out with a girl named Sally
(Speaking of) But my love's a party of one
At least I'm stable without any fun
It's like running in circles or running in squares
Or visiting twin Earth where green is blue but who cares
Not I said the simple sentence
Which in a sense is saying pop rock is not dead
I am deliriously cold hearted
Maybe I mean cold emotionally
This is serious cause I forgot how to have fun again
Shock
The sky's unlimited they got cute stuff
He's her guinea pig must be true love
And oh sure I know your so hard core
Involved in all of the socialite weights good flight rates to find dates
fifty states which may creates many breaks and hears ache double take
may re-make a marriage great
Wow! Spontaneous to fake you out
He or she should have taken him or her out
And discuss why there is no us
And shoot the breeze why there is no we
We will seek thrills in our fantasies but too much time killed in la la land
In demand of supply and dependent without knowing why bother
I can't seem to or wan to stop
i got to hand some strange genes down to my handsome son or daughter
Who are at this time just a thought in the back of my mind I opt not to yet
The thought is unstoppable probable profitable
In every way but my pocketbook
Bearable abominable karma comical
possible cause is jellyfish
Random
Pandemonium only when freedom is seen as just for your enjoyment
Furthermore is for your enjoyment
Furthermore is for your enjoyment
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