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"
Tell me girl what were you thinking?
Hit me with something that will make this worth my time
Take it back, take it all back now
Every promise I made was just another mistake with you
Tell the truth if you think that you can take it
But I know, you won't
I never felt so all alone
But when it was safe I turned my back and the blade came through
And I can barely breathe
And I can barely breathe
And I can barely breathe
Stand on top of the roof top wondering
Is it good? Yea it's good for jumping
Take back every word you said
'Cause I can barely breathe
(and I can barely breathe)
Tell me now can you still taste him?
'Cause you know you'll never wash your hands of this
Take it back, take it all back now
Every drunken kiss that landed on his lips from you
Make a move if you think that you can make it
But I know, you won't
I never felt so all alone
But when it was safe I turned my back and the blade came through
And I can barely breathe
And I can barely breathe
And I can barely breathe
Stand on top of the roof top wondering
Is it good? Yea it's good for jumping
Take back every word you said
'Cause I can barely breathe
(and I can barely breathe)
Stand on top of the roof top wondering
Is it good? Yea it's good for jumping
Take back every word you said
'Cause I can barely breathe
(and I can barely breathe)
Hold your tongue
You know nothing about this
Don't even get involved
I hope you watch as I'm falling down
Because you are the reason I'd hit the ground
You could be the one that breaks me
You will be the one that breaks me now
I hope you know that every tear you cried
Is a memory left from when you watch me die
You know I'll haunt your dreams
With all these pieces you stole of me
Of me
Stand on top of the roof top wondering
Is it good? Yea it's good for jumping
Take back every word you said
'Cause I can barely breathe
(and I can barely breathe)
Stand on top of the roof top wondering
Is it good? Yea it's good for jumping
Take back every word you said
'Cause I can barely breathe
(and I can barely breathe)
Hit me with something that will make this worth my time
Take it back, take it all back now
Every promise I made was just another mistake with you
Tell the truth if you think that you can take it
But I know, you won't
I never felt so all alone
But when it was safe I turned my back and the blade came through
And I can barely breathe
And I can barely breathe
And I can barely breathe
Stand on top of the roof top wondering
Is it good? Yea it's good for jumping
Take back every word you said
'Cause I can barely breathe
(and I can barely breathe)
Tell me now can you still taste him?
'Cause you know you'll never wash your hands of this
Take it back, take it all back now
Every drunken kiss that landed on his lips from you
Make a move if you think that you can make it
But I know, you won't
I never felt so all alone
But when it was safe I turned my back and the blade came through
And I can barely breathe
And I can barely breathe
And I can barely breathe
Stand on top of the roof top wondering
Is it good? Yea it's good for jumping
Take back every word you said
'Cause I can barely breathe
(and I can barely breathe)
Stand on top of the roof top wondering
Is it good? Yea it's good for jumping
Take back every word you said
'Cause I can barely breathe
(and I can barely breathe)
Hold your tongue
You know nothing about this
Don't even get involved
I hope you watch as I'm falling down
Because you are the reason I'd hit the ground
You could be the one that breaks me
You will be the one that breaks me now
I hope you know that every tear you cried
Is a memory left from when you watch me die
You know I'll haunt your dreams
With all these pieces you stole of me
Of me
Stand on top of the roof top wondering
Is it good? Yea it's good for jumping
Take back every word you said
'Cause I can barely breathe
(and I can barely breathe)
Stand on top of the roof top wondering
Is it good? Yea it's good for jumping
Take back every word you said
'Cause I can barely breathe
(and I can barely breathe)
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I Can Barely Breathe Lyrics as written by Dan Simons Andrew Meunier
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