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"
The consequences
Of my behavior
Have made me look hard
To find a savior
But this train ain't bound for glory
It's only a local
Bound for Brooklyn
Now that you're gone
The hardest part is going on
Saying goodbye
Is not as sad as saying we tried
But we did all we could do
Yeah, we did all we could do
One becomes two
I'm as lost
As a boy can be
In a city of grids
And numbered streets
Now I'm turning a corner
I can't be lonely
The landmarks all know me
Now that you're gone
The hardest part is going on
Saying goodbye
Is not as sad as saying we tried
But we did all we could do
Yeah, we did all we could do
We said the wrong things at the wrong times
Covered the old ground across the new lines
Leaving behind a life once entwined with you
One becomes two
The statues sleep
In Central Park
The sidewalks talk
After dark
Me, I count the change
We saved up for so long
To get out of this town
Now that you're gone
The hardest part is going on
Saying goodbye
Is not as sad as saying we tried
But we did all we could do
Yeah, we did all we could do
We did all we could do
Yeah, we did all we could do
One becomes two
One becomes two
One becomes two
Of my behavior
Have made me look hard
To find a savior
But this train ain't bound for glory
It's only a local
Bound for Brooklyn
Now that you're gone
The hardest part is going on
Saying goodbye
Is not as sad as saying we tried
But we did all we could do
Yeah, we did all we could do
One becomes two
I'm as lost
As a boy can be
In a city of grids
And numbered streets
Now I'm turning a corner
I can't be lonely
The landmarks all know me
Now that you're gone
The hardest part is going on
Saying goodbye
Is not as sad as saying we tried
But we did all we could do
Yeah, we did all we could do
We said the wrong things at the wrong times
Covered the old ground across the new lines
Leaving behind a life once entwined with you
One becomes two
The statues sleep
In Central Park
The sidewalks talk
After dark
Me, I count the change
We saved up for so long
To get out of this town
Now that you're gone
The hardest part is going on
Saying goodbye
Is not as sad as saying we tried
But we did all we could do
Yeah, we did all we could do
We did all we could do
Yeah, we did all we could do
One becomes two
One becomes two
One becomes two
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