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're the woman who made me a man
I was down you taught me to stand
I was made up of nothing
You put something inside
You opened my chest
And put that hurt in my eyes
Now I've got that pain I can turn to
When I wonder if I'm still alive
I was dead in the water
They left me dead in the water
I was made up of nothing
You put your hands on my heart
Stained your fingers inside me
And you took me apart
You're the woman who made me who I am
Everything I've got I got from you
I was down you taught me to stand
I was made up of nothing
You put something inside
You opened my chest
And put that hurt in my eyes
Now I've got that pain I can turn to
When I wonder if I'm still alive
I was dead in the water
They left me dead in the water
I was made up of nothing
You put your hands on my heart
Stained your fingers inside me
And you took me apart
You're the woman who made me who I am
Everything I've got I got from you
Lyrics submitted by sushi_rocks
Rites of Spring Lyrics as written by Samuel Bingham Endicott
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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