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"
Films will come and films will go,
That kiss on your neck won't show.
Posing in the same place everytime,
When your still speaking in the sunshine.
Watching T.V. at 4 am.
But that's not when she needs a friend.
Staring at the bathroom floor.
Please don't say you've got to go.
Posing at the same place to put things right.
In your eyes, we're meeting in the morning light.
You've done it again, you've done it before.
That kiss on your neck won't show.
Watching T.V. at 4 am.
But that's not when she needs a friend.
Staring at the bathroom floor.
Please don't say you've got to go.
Watching T.V. at 4 am.
But that's not when she needs a friend.
Loose change from your pocket on the floor.
Please don't say you've got to go.
Cheap thrills that this time I clasp.
Cheap thrills that you'll dream about.
You've done it again, you've done it before.
That kiss on your neck won't show.
Watching T.V. at 4 am.
But that's not when she needs a friend.
Staring at the bathroom floor.
Please don't say you've got to go.
Watching T.V. at 4 am.
But that's not when she needs a friend.
Loose change from your pocket on the floor.
Please don't say you've got to go.
Level 1.
That kiss on your neck won't show.
Posing in the same place everytime,
When your still speaking in the sunshine.
Watching T.V. at 4 am.
But that's not when she needs a friend.
Staring at the bathroom floor.
Please don't say you've got to go.
Posing at the same place to put things right.
In your eyes, we're meeting in the morning light.
You've done it again, you've done it before.
That kiss on your neck won't show.
Watching T.V. at 4 am.
But that's not when she needs a friend.
Staring at the bathroom floor.
Please don't say you've got to go.
Watching T.V. at 4 am.
But that's not when she needs a friend.
Loose change from your pocket on the floor.
Please don't say you've got to go.
Cheap thrills that this time I clasp.
Cheap thrills that you'll dream about.
You've done it again, you've done it before.
That kiss on your neck won't show.
Watching T.V. at 4 am.
But that's not when she needs a friend.
Staring at the bathroom floor.
Please don't say you've got to go.
Watching T.V. at 4 am.
But that's not when she needs a friend.
Loose change from your pocket on the floor.
Please don't say you've got to go.
Level 1.
Lyrics submitted by martinellia88
AMTV Lyrics as written by Mira Aroyo Daniel Hunt
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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