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 retreat your sticky situation, don't choose to walk away
If you do, these times will come for you
You're giving up what you're thinking
But now you're thinking you were right
Put up in a sticky situation without putting up a fight
Now face to face reflections have got you thinking you were wrong
In that sticky situation when you've known it all along
Because if I cease now, I'm liable to regret it later
Assist how? Up in the air your continence wavers
So what you gonna do?
Run fast as you can?
You're thinking back
No, you never had a plan
That's when you turn away
And you say you'll be back some other day
And then you run and hide
Retreat!
Your sticky situation
You retreat!
With out any hesitation
You retreat!
Your sticky situation now
Rackin' them up there's no question that you've played this game before
This sticky situation that you're choosing to ignore
What once was, it still is, and may forever be
But if ever I don't face it man I'm never gonna see
'Cause if I cease now, I'm liable to regret it later
Assist how? Up in the air your continence wavers
So what you gonna do?
Run fast as you can?
You're thinking back
Nope, you never had a plan
That's when you turn away
And you say you'll be back some other day
But then you run and hide
Retreat!
Your sticky situation
You retreat!
With out any hesitation
You retreat!
Your sticky situation now
HERE IT COMES!
You're giving up what you're thinking
But now you're thinking you were right
In a sticky situation without putting up a fight
Now face to face reflections have got you thinking you were wrong
In that sticky situation when you had known it all along
And what you do with your life is your own
Apart from different things that we're told
All the times you've chose to run and hide
All those different things you were afraid would unwind
But now you're picking up and running away
You're packing up, backing up, leaving it for another day
All the different times you've chose to run and hide
All the different things you thought they might find
You pack it up, back it up, pack it up, back it up and run
You're picking up, packing up, and back up under the sun
Now all the different reason you'd chose to run away
All those different reasons, now for another day
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Retreat!
Your sticky situation
You retreat!
With out any hesitation
You retreat!
Your sticky situation now
Yeah you run away right now!
If you do, these times will come for you
You're giving up what you're thinking
But now you're thinking you were right
Put up in a sticky situation without putting up a fight
Now face to face reflections have got you thinking you were wrong
In that sticky situation when you've known it all along
Because if I cease now, I'm liable to regret it later
Assist how? Up in the air your continence wavers
So what you gonna do?
Run fast as you can?
You're thinking back
No, you never had a plan
That's when you turn away
And you say you'll be back some other day
And then you run and hide
Retreat!
Your sticky situation
You retreat!
With out any hesitation
You retreat!
Your sticky situation now
Rackin' them up there's no question that you've played this game before
This sticky situation that you're choosing to ignore
What once was, it still is, and may forever be
But if ever I don't face it man I'm never gonna see
'Cause if I cease now, I'm liable to regret it later
Assist how? Up in the air your continence wavers
So what you gonna do?
Run fast as you can?
You're thinking back
Nope, you never had a plan
That's when you turn away
And you say you'll be back some other day
But then you run and hide
Retreat!
Your sticky situation
You retreat!
With out any hesitation
You retreat!
Your sticky situation now
HERE IT COMES!
You're giving up what you're thinking
But now you're thinking you were right
In a sticky situation without putting up a fight
Now face to face reflections have got you thinking you were wrong
In that sticky situation when you had known it all along
And what you do with your life is your own
Apart from different things that we're told
All the times you've chose to run and hide
All those different things you were afraid would unwind
But now you're picking up and running away
You're packing up, backing up, leaving it for another day
All the different times you've chose to run and hide
All the different things you thought they might find
You pack it up, back it up, pack it up, back it up and run
You're picking up, packing up, and back up under the sun
Now all the different reason you'd chose to run away
All those different reasons, now for another day
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Retreat!
Your sticky situation
You retreat!
With out any hesitation
You retreat!
Your sticky situation now
Yeah you run away right now!
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