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"
Well, I've had my share
Of remarks about my rear
But I know it's all 'bout fear
And that you'd probably love it
If you'd only dare
And I know q thousand girls
Who'd go wild
If I'd ask them to bear my child
So I don't see why you'd even care
To prevent me
'Cause I can swear,
That one day I will become
The father of a son
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah!
One day I will become
The father of a son
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah!
And you're totally fogged in you head
If you were serious right now
When you said
That "it's because
They will be bullied in school"
'Cause that means you let the bullies
Set the rules
And you can legislate and oppress
And you can make my life a mess
But you can't change the way I feel
Or convince me that my wish is unreal
And you can strike me down
And fence me
And you can claim
That there's opinion against me
But I'll still win over you, sir
'Cause if you fight love,
You're always a looser...
So, one day I will become
The father of a son
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah!
And I may be gay
But I can tell you straight away
That I'll become a better father than
All of you anyway...(so listen!)
One day I will become
The father of a son
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah!
Of remarks about my rear
But I know it's all 'bout fear
And that you'd probably love it
If you'd only dare
And I know q thousand girls
Who'd go wild
If I'd ask them to bear my child
So I don't see why you'd even care
To prevent me
'Cause I can swear,
That one day I will become
The father of a son
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah!
One day I will become
The father of a son
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah!
And you're totally fogged in you head
If you were serious right now
When you said
That "it's because
They will be bullied in school"
'Cause that means you let the bullies
Set the rules
And you can legislate and oppress
And you can make my life a mess
But you can't change the way I feel
Or convince me that my wish is unreal
And you can strike me down
And fence me
And you can claim
That there's opinion against me
But I'll still win over you, sir
'Cause if you fight love,
You're always a looser...
So, one day I will become
The father of a son
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah!
And I may be gay
But I can tell you straight away
That I'll become a better father than
All of you anyway...(so listen!)
One day I will become
The father of a son
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah!
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"cause that means you let the bullies set the rules"
"cause if you fight Love, you’re always a looser "
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