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"
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
The hardest part this troubled heart
Has never yet been through now
Was heal the scars that got their start
Inside someone like you now
For had I known or I'd been shown
Back when how long it'd take me
To break the charms that brought me harm
And all that would erase me
I never would or thought I could
No matter what you'd pay me
Replay the part, you stole my heart
I should have known you're crazy
If all I knew was that with you
I'd want someone to save me
It'd be enough, but just my luck
I fell in love and maybe
All that I wanted was
Now I know you better
You know, I know better
Now I know you better
So bittersweet, this tragedy
Won't ask for absolution
This melody inside of me
Still searches for solution
A twist of fate, a change of heart
Cures my infatuation
I'm a broken heart, provides the spark
For my determination
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
Oh, no one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
All that I wanted was
Now I know you better
You know, I know better
Now I know you better
I never wanted you to be so full of anger (anger)
I never wanted you to be somebody else
I never wanted you to be someone afraid to know themselves
I only wanted you to see things for yourself
All that I wanted was
Now I know you better
Now we all know better
All that I wanted was
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
If I were you I'd manage to
Avoid the invitation
Of promised love that can't keep up
With your adoration
Just use your head and in the end
You'll find your inspiration
To choose your steps and won't regret
This kind of aggravation
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
They just thought I'd know better, better
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
The hardest part this troubled heart
Has never yet been through now
Was heal the scars that got their start
Inside someone like you now
For had I known or I'd been shown
Back when how long it'd take me
To break the charms that brought me harm
And all that would erase me
I never would or thought I could
No matter what you'd pay me
Replay the part, you stole my heart
I should have known you're crazy
If all I knew was that with you
I'd want someone to save me
It'd be enough, but just my luck
I fell in love and maybe
All that I wanted was
Now I know you better
You know, I know better
Now I know you better
So bittersweet, this tragedy
Won't ask for absolution
This melody inside of me
Still searches for solution
A twist of fate, a change of heart
Cures my infatuation
I'm a broken heart, provides the spark
For my determination
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
Oh, no one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
All that I wanted was
Now I know you better
You know, I know better
Now I know you better
I never wanted you to be so full of anger (anger)
I never wanted you to be somebody else
I never wanted you to be someone afraid to know themselves
I only wanted you to see things for yourself
All that I wanted was
Now I know you better
Now we all know better
All that I wanted was
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
If I were you I'd manage to
Avoid the invitation
Of promised love that can't keep up
With your adoration
Just use your head and in the end
You'll find your inspiration
To choose your steps and won't regret
This kind of aggravation
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
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