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"
something’s in the air tonight
the sky's alive with a burning light
you can mark my words something's about to break
and i found myself in a bitter fight
while i've held your hand through the darkest night
don't know where your coming from but your coming soon
to a kid from oregon by way of california
all of this is more than i've ever known or seen
come on and we'll sing, like we were free
push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
come on and we'll try, one last time
i'm off of the floor one more time to find you
and here we go there's nothing left to choose
and here we go there's nothing left to lose
so i packed my car and headed east
where i felt your fire and a sweet release
there's a fire in these hills thats coming down
and i don't know much but i found you here
and i can not wait another year
don't know where your coming from but you coming soon
to a kid from oregon by way of california
all of this is more than i’ve ever known or seen
come on and we'll sing, like we were free
push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
come on and we'll try, one last time
i'm off of the floor one more time to find you
and here we go there's nothing left to choose
and here we go there's nothing left to lose
i can still hear the trains out my window
from hobart street to here in nashville
i can still smell the pomegranates grow
and i don't know how hard this wind will blow
or where we'll go
come on and we'll sing, like we were free
push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
come on and we'll try, one last time
i'm off of the floor one more time to find you
and here we go there's nothing left to choose
and here we go there's nothing left to lose
the sky's alive with a burning light
you can mark my words something's about to break
and i found myself in a bitter fight
while i've held your hand through the darkest night
don't know where your coming from but your coming soon
to a kid from oregon by way of california
all of this is more than i've ever known or seen
come on and we'll sing, like we were free
push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
come on and we'll try, one last time
i'm off of the floor one more time to find you
and here we go there's nothing left to choose
and here we go there's nothing left to lose
so i packed my car and headed east
where i felt your fire and a sweet release
there's a fire in these hills thats coming down
and i don't know much but i found you here
and i can not wait another year
don't know where your coming from but you coming soon
to a kid from oregon by way of california
all of this is more than i’ve ever known or seen
come on and we'll sing, like we were free
push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
come on and we'll try, one last time
i'm off of the floor one more time to find you
and here we go there's nothing left to choose
and here we go there's nothing left to lose
i can still hear the trains out my window
from hobart street to here in nashville
i can still smell the pomegranates grow
and i don't know how hard this wind will blow
or where we'll go
come on and we'll sing, like we were free
push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
come on and we'll try, one last time
i'm off of the floor one more time to find you
and here we go there's nothing left to choose
and here we go there's nothing left to lose
Lyrics submitted by diamondprincss02
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