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’m standing here before you Lilly I’m naked just as you.
I’ve sung about the left cheek kisses I’m about to give you now.
I’m standing here before you Lilly I got the tickets in my hand.
Could not afford these tickets Lilly but I got them anyway somehow.
Tonight we’re going to see the great Miss Universe.
We’re gonna see the great Miss Universe tonight.
You know my sister Susan Lee. She’s been a Christian since the start.
But the way she practices it just smells like an onion fart.
You know my sister Susan Lee she says ‘Jesus got a plan for you’.
That he could lead you to the righteous path
and one day you will be righteous too.
And now she’s buying stocks in the casino business.
Righteous stocks in the casino business.
So meet me there at the Nobel Square if you’re a gambler too
So meet me there at the Nobel Square if you’re addicted too
We’re going to the museum Freddie and Emma and Lilly and I.
It’s a part of my project I proudly call Making this city mine.
I think about the future and I say ‘Freddie what do you wanna do?’
‘I wanna become a teacher, I made up my mind in 2002’.
And Emma says ‘I want to change the world.’
And Lilly says ‘I want to change the world with you’.
So meet us there at the Nobel Square
if you want to change the world with us.
I’ve sung about the left cheek kisses I’m about to give you now.
I’m standing here before you Lilly I got the tickets in my hand.
Could not afford these tickets Lilly but I got them anyway somehow.
Tonight we’re going to see the great Miss Universe.
We’re gonna see the great Miss Universe tonight.
You know my sister Susan Lee. She’s been a Christian since the start.
But the way she practices it just smells like an onion fart.
You know my sister Susan Lee she says ‘Jesus got a plan for you’.
That he could lead you to the righteous path
and one day you will be righteous too.
And now she’s buying stocks in the casino business.
Righteous stocks in the casino business.
So meet me there at the Nobel Square if you’re a gambler too
So meet me there at the Nobel Square if you’re addicted too
We’re going to the museum Freddie and Emma and Lilly and I.
It’s a part of my project I proudly call Making this city mine.
I think about the future and I say ‘Freddie what do you wanna do?’
‘I wanna become a teacher, I made up my mind in 2002’.
And Emma says ‘I want to change the world.’
And Lilly says ‘I want to change the world with you’.
So meet us there at the Nobel Square
if you want to change the world with us.
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