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"
you need not put it into words
I’ll train myself to guess correctly
what it is you may require
I don’t care how long it takes
I’ve got the patience of a saint, without the wisdom
my love’s immune from your denial
faith is blind or not at all
so I will devote myself
you can never know what God may hold in store for you
so you’ll forgive my struggling? have some patience?
because here is how it is:
everything I thought was good and right’s been shattered
by your devious mysterious unusual beautiful heartwrenching unbearable graceful wonderful dazzling impossible music
so although when I hear it
it tears my heart to pieces
when I don’t, all I do is miss it
I live in an emptiness that can only be filled by your music
even the branches of trees are grateful
they sway in time to your music
as it wafts out through the window
and the air is softened to tears, it knows it can’t compare
it’s a gray day with death in the air
yet I’m reeling with joy
because the world is all aglow with the fire
of your glorious spectacular maddening superior brilliant startling magical magnificent delightfully impossible music
and I’m on fire for your music
I’ll train myself to guess correctly
what it is you may require
I don’t care how long it takes
I’ve got the patience of a saint, without the wisdom
my love’s immune from your denial
faith is blind or not at all
so I will devote myself
you can never know what God may hold in store for you
so you’ll forgive my struggling? have some patience?
because here is how it is:
everything I thought was good and right’s been shattered
by your devious mysterious unusual beautiful heartwrenching unbearable graceful wonderful dazzling impossible music
so although when I hear it
it tears my heart to pieces
when I don’t, all I do is miss it
I live in an emptiness that can only be filled by your music
even the branches of trees are grateful
they sway in time to your music
as it wafts out through the window
and the air is softened to tears, it knows it can’t compare
it’s a gray day with death in the air
yet I’m reeling with joy
because the world is all aglow with the fire
of your glorious spectacular maddening superior brilliant startling magical magnificent delightfully impossible music
and I’m on fire for your music
Lyrics submitted by delial
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