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"
Go to now
After picking the glass off the ground
Go to now
After shaking the thing for a sound
Do we see what the clock makes you do
But I won't let this happen to you
In a town
Where I lost every shirt on the fence
Go to now
I am bleeding a trail through the lens
When I see what I now know is you
I was caught in the eye as you came
Pulled by my name
I'm fallin' through
Traveling at godspeed
Over the hills and trails
I have refused my call
Pushin' my lazy sails
Into the blue flame
I want to crash here right now
The hourglass spills its sand
If only to punish you
For listenin' too long
To one song
Listenin' too long
To one song
Sing me Spanish techno
Listenin' too long
To one song
Listenin' too long
To one song
Sing me Spanish techno
Go to now
After wiring the thing to explode
Wired for sound
Wide awake here for days in a row
Now we see what the engine can do
And I won't let this happen to you
I won't let this happen to you
Traveling at godspeed
Over the hills and trails
I have refused my call
Pushin' my lazy sails
Into the blue flame
I want to crash here right now
The hourglass spills its sand
If only to punish you
For listenin' too long
To one song
Listenin' too long
To one song
Sing me Spanish techno
Listenin' too long
To one song
Listenin' too long
To one song
Sing me Spanish techno
After picking the glass off the ground
Go to now
After shaking the thing for a sound
Do we see what the clock makes you do
But I won't let this happen to you
In a town
Where I lost every shirt on the fence
Go to now
I am bleeding a trail through the lens
When I see what I now know is you
I was caught in the eye as you came
Pulled by my name
I'm fallin' through
Traveling at godspeed
Over the hills and trails
I have refused my call
Pushin' my lazy sails
Into the blue flame
I want to crash here right now
The hourglass spills its sand
If only to punish you
For listenin' too long
To one song
Listenin' too long
To one song
Sing me Spanish techno
Listenin' too long
To one song
Listenin' too long
To one song
Sing me Spanish techno
Go to now
After wiring the thing to explode
Wired for sound
Wide awake here for days in a row
Now we see what the engine can do
And I won't let this happen to you
I won't let this happen to you
Traveling at godspeed
Over the hills and trails
I have refused my call
Pushin' my lazy sails
Into the blue flame
I want to crash here right now
The hourglass spills its sand
If only to punish you
For listenin' too long
To one song
Listenin' too long
To one song
Sing me Spanish techno
Listenin' too long
To one song
Listenin' too long
To one song
Sing me Spanish techno
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