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 got your brand ne w house,
You got your brand new room,
You got the pictures one the wall, and I'm not in any of them,
I've got your letters stored,
And space to fill,
I've got a box I never threw away, and probably never will,
I won't say your name without a smile,
Wasted nights,
We feared our home,
I drove you anywhere you'd want to go,
On nameless streets,
You told me you loved me,
Forever and ever again,
I kept the ticket stubs,
I got our last playbill,
You've got stories for the big screen, and you bought "If There's A Will,"
I carry my own life,
With my heart intact,
Like those times I used to spend with you are never coming back,
I'll sit another day, remembering,
Wasted nights,
We feared our home,
I drove you anywhere you'd want to go,
On nameless streets,
You told me you loved me,
Forever and ever,
Were you the one for me? (Were you the one for me?)
Were you the one for me? (Were you the one for me?)
There was once, this chance, to share the world with just one girl,
Cause she was perferct, she was honest,
She broke my heart, when she broke her promise,
There was once, this chance, to share the world with just one girl,
Cause she was perferct, she was honest,
She broke my heart, when she broke her promise,
(Wasted nights, we feared our home, I drove you anywhere you'd want to go)
There was once, this chance, to share the world with just one girl,
(On nameless streets, you told me you loved me)
Cause she was perferct, she was honest,
She broke my heart, when,
Forever and forever again,
You got your brand new room,
You got the pictures one the wall, and I'm not in any of them,
I've got your letters stored,
And space to fill,
I've got a box I never threw away, and probably never will,
I won't say your name without a smile,
Wasted nights,
We feared our home,
I drove you anywhere you'd want to go,
On nameless streets,
You told me you loved me,
Forever and ever again,
I kept the ticket stubs,
I got our last playbill,
You've got stories for the big screen, and you bought "If There's A Will,"
I carry my own life,
With my heart intact,
Like those times I used to spend with you are never coming back,
I'll sit another day, remembering,
Wasted nights,
We feared our home,
I drove you anywhere you'd want to go,
On nameless streets,
You told me you loved me,
Forever and ever,
Were you the one for me? (Were you the one for me?)
Were you the one for me? (Were you the one for me?)
There was once, this chance, to share the world with just one girl,
Cause she was perferct, she was honest,
She broke my heart, when she broke her promise,
There was once, this chance, to share the world with just one girl,
Cause she was perferct, she was honest,
She broke my heart, when she broke her promise,
(Wasted nights, we feared our home, I drove you anywhere you'd want to go)
There was once, this chance, to share the world with just one girl,
(On nameless streets, you told me you loved me)
Cause she was perferct, she was honest,
She broke my heart, when,
Forever and forever again,
Lyrics submitted by fedorov1fan
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