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"
it's getting cold, my hands are numb
and I cannot feel a thing
I'm growing callous to this place
the resolution strikes again
and I don't know what to say
but I've got to move on
I'm beginning to see
that everything I want is fake
and what I have is real
I swore I would look no further than this
but somehow I found a way
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
Im trying so hard to succeed
but all i can do is breathe
my emotion runs dry
no time to waste, no minute more
its time for this business to end
because I've got to move on
I'm beginning to see
that everything I want is fake
and what I have is real
I swore I would look no further than this
but somehow I found a way
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
and dont look down (don't look down)
and don't look back
we're leaving our shadows
and we're leaving the past
dont look down, dont look back
we'll rise again, we'll rise again
dont look down, dont look back
we'll rise again, we'll rise again
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
dont look down, dont look back
the only way I look is up
and I cannot feel a thing
I'm growing callous to this place
the resolution strikes again
and I don't know what to say
but I've got to move on
I'm beginning to see
that everything I want is fake
and what I have is real
I swore I would look no further than this
but somehow I found a way
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
Im trying so hard to succeed
but all i can do is breathe
my emotion runs dry
no time to waste, no minute more
its time for this business to end
because I've got to move on
I'm beginning to see
that everything I want is fake
and what I have is real
I swore I would look no further than this
but somehow I found a way
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
and dont look down (don't look down)
and don't look back
we're leaving our shadows
and we're leaving the past
dont look down, dont look back
we'll rise again, we'll rise again
dont look down, dont look back
we'll rise again, we'll rise again
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
dont look down, dont look back
the only way I look is up
Lyrics submitted by shinkster
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