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"
lose track
lose track of your mind
and leave me behind
dont look back
take a picture of me for baby to see
in a while
dont hurt your soul it just makes you whole
dont hurt your soul its in your control
fare the well
the way outs before you so true yourself be true
goodbye to hell
i love you forever through every endeavor
dont hurt your soul it just makes you whole
dont hurt your soul its in your control
rain down your wounds
will erase all the pain
in the palm of your hand
there we land
and before you cry
sing this lullabye
breath out
your baby wounds can always be free
dont pout
ill fly to your side and together we'll hide
dont hurt your soul it just makes you whole
dont hurt your soul its in your control
bye bye old friends
make amends at the end
of this road I've been told
that each day
is my first
and before you cry
sing this lullabye
lost at the bar
counting stars
and you cannot let go
of the past in your heart you are a part
and before you cry
sing this lullabye
lose track of your mind
and leave me behind
dont look back
take a picture of me for baby to see
in a while
dont hurt your soul it just makes you whole
dont hurt your soul its in your control
fare the well
the way outs before you so true yourself be true
goodbye to hell
i love you forever through every endeavor
dont hurt your soul it just makes you whole
dont hurt your soul its in your control
rain down your wounds
will erase all the pain
in the palm of your hand
there we land
and before you cry
sing this lullabye
breath out
your baby wounds can always be free
dont pout
ill fly to your side and together we'll hide
dont hurt your soul it just makes you whole
dont hurt your soul its in your control
bye bye old friends
make amends at the end
of this road I've been told
that each day
is my first
and before you cry
sing this lullabye
lost at the bar
counting stars
and you cannot let go
of the past in your heart you are a part
and before you cry
sing this lullabye
Lyrics submitted by X.notXsoXperfect.X
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I think she may say "the way out is before you so to yourself be true".
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