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"
You took mine and I took yours
We hid them in our chest of drawers
You broke my arm and I broke your skin
You broke the rules and I cheated to win
You asked the judge and I called the cops
They told us both it was none of our faults
Our bodies tangled and no one to blame
No wonder we get off just playing this game
And when there's nothing left, you point at me and you say, "theft"
With my eyes on the ceiling, you accuse me of stealing
I'm stuck inside the cell, how'd you like to bail me out
This goal is hard to tackle, now you're locked up in the shackles
I took my chances, you took my luck
I lost my reason, your fingers got stuck
Slamming the door was my only intention
If I had some gloves I would have some protection
Shrunk in the machine, my sweater's not mine
Thank you, public servants, for wasting my time
Searching in anger to find all the yarn
When you read the papers your feelings get learned
You're kicking me, I'm helpless on the floor and in a ball
If you don't stop it soon I'll give in give my whole life long
The bruises that you gave me are all in the shape of hearts
But they hurt worse than all the others shaped like guns and knives and darts
Well it's a crush and it's a threat
We hid them in our chest of drawers
You broke my arm and I broke your skin
You broke the rules and I cheated to win
You asked the judge and I called the cops
They told us both it was none of our faults
Our bodies tangled and no one to blame
No wonder we get off just playing this game
And when there's nothing left, you point at me and you say, "theft"
With my eyes on the ceiling, you accuse me of stealing
I'm stuck inside the cell, how'd you like to bail me out
This goal is hard to tackle, now you're locked up in the shackles
I took my chances, you took my luck
I lost my reason, your fingers got stuck
Slamming the door was my only intention
If I had some gloves I would have some protection
Shrunk in the machine, my sweater's not mine
Thank you, public servants, for wasting my time
Searching in anger to find all the yarn
When you read the papers your feelings get learned
You're kicking me, I'm helpless on the floor and in a ball
If you don't stop it soon I'll give in give my whole life long
The bruises that you gave me are all in the shape of hearts
But they hurt worse than all the others shaped like guns and knives and darts
Well it's a crush and it's a threat
Lyrics submitted by Blaupunked
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