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"
I should write a song about you
And all the shit that you do
You don't even know what's up
But soon it all comes crashing down on you
Since we're on the subject
Tell me why your name is in the dictionary when I look up idiot
Check yourself it's very necessary
Stop listen what's that sound
Supersonic spinning 'round
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
Crash and burn girl
Going down down down down down
Crash and burn girl
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
You should have a sticker on you
Saying warning keep out
You're the kinda girl that'll mess you up for
Life that's smashing up his car
Crying on his doorstep, waiting in the rain all night
And did you tell him you're the kind that never show your ugly side
Until you sticking like glue
Stop listen what's that sound
Supersonic spinning 'round
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
Crash and burn girl
Going down down down down down
Crash and burn girl
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
It's just that every time you mess it up like that I see myself in you
I've been there too
And there's so many times I stand beside and see what you're going through
Where you headed too
Stand by!
Crash and burn girl
Going down down down down down
Crash and burn girl
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
Crash and burn girl
You keep on banging you head girl your shirt's all red
Crash and burn girl
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
Crash and burn girl
You keep on banging you head girl your shirt's all red
Crash and burn girl
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
Going down, going down, going down, oh no
You're going down, going down
You'll crash and burn girl
And all the shit that you do
You don't even know what's up
But soon it all comes crashing down on you
Since we're on the subject
Tell me why your name is in the dictionary when I look up idiot
Check yourself it's very necessary
Stop listen what's that sound
Supersonic spinning 'round
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
Crash and burn girl
Going down down down down down
Crash and burn girl
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
You should have a sticker on you
Saying warning keep out
You're the kinda girl that'll mess you up for
Life that's smashing up his car
Crying on his doorstep, waiting in the rain all night
And did you tell him you're the kind that never show your ugly side
Until you sticking like glue
Stop listen what's that sound
Supersonic spinning 'round
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
Crash and burn girl
Going down down down down down
Crash and burn girl
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
It's just that every time you mess it up like that I see myself in you
I've been there too
And there's so many times I stand beside and see what you're going through
Where you headed too
Stand by!
Crash and burn girl
Going down down down down down
Crash and burn girl
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
Crash and burn girl
You keep on banging you head girl your shirt's all red
Crash and burn girl
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
Crash and burn girl
You keep on banging you head girl your shirt's all red
Crash and burn girl
You don't mind the fall until your face hits the ground
Going down, going down, going down, oh no
You're going down, going down
You'll crash and burn girl
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This is obviously about a girl who keeps making dumb mistakes without first thinking about the consequence of her actions. Pretty much, every stupid thing she does comes back to bite her in the butt 3x harder...