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 were born with wings
So why don't you use them and get the hell out of here?
And you have the most beautiful eyes
So why don't you use them for something other than crying?
And I am sorry for the way that this had to end
If only there was something that I could have done
Or something that I could have said
And all of the gold in this world is keeping me occupied
And my greatest apologies they go out to my greatest inspiration
Baby, I could meet you in Los Angeles
Where all of the people look exactly like you and me
And in a crowd of faceless people
You know I could pick you out
In a split second, in an odd minute
You know I'd find you
I always said that I would
How's your daddy doing?
The last I heard I though he was dying
And I hope everything's going ok with that
And the baby that's inside of me will look just like you
So I better close my eyes so I don't confuse him with you
'Cause I would take him out and I would take you in
And we could be together whatever the weather
And I would spend the rest of my life making this up to you
And my greatest apologies they go out to my only best friend
And that means you, yeah, that means you
Baby, I could meet you in Los Angeles
Where all of the people look exactly like you and me
And in a crowd of faceless people
You know I could pick you out
In a split second, in an odd minute
You know I'd find you
I always said that I would
I always said that I would
I always said that I would
I always said that I would
I always said that I would
I would
So why don't you use them and get the hell out of here?
And you have the most beautiful eyes
So why don't you use them for something other than crying?
And I am sorry for the way that this had to end
If only there was something that I could have done
Or something that I could have said
And all of the gold in this world is keeping me occupied
And my greatest apologies they go out to my greatest inspiration
Baby, I could meet you in Los Angeles
Where all of the people look exactly like you and me
And in a crowd of faceless people
You know I could pick you out
In a split second, in an odd minute
You know I'd find you
I always said that I would
How's your daddy doing?
The last I heard I though he was dying
And I hope everything's going ok with that
And the baby that's inside of me will look just like you
So I better close my eyes so I don't confuse him with you
'Cause I would take him out and I would take you in
And we could be together whatever the weather
And I would spend the rest of my life making this up to you
And my greatest apologies they go out to my only best friend
And that means you, yeah, that means you
Baby, I could meet you in Los Angeles
Where all of the people look exactly like you and me
And in a crowd of faceless people
You know I could pick you out
In a split second, in an odd minute
You know I'd find you
I always said that I would
I always said that I would
I always said that I would
I always said that I would
I always said that I would
I would
Lyrics submitted by brittaful
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