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"
Life sometimes changes so quickly
Nothing's safe, nothing's sound
Just when I think I'm invincible
The world turns it all upside down
Thought you'd be here all my lifetime
Working each day 'til it's end
You were much more than just family
You were more like a friend
And with one simple phone call you were taken away
I'm misunderstanding what justice it pays
Are the powers above us playing some kind of game?
Now I'm left here to carry your name
And I know that you're out there
'Cause I feel you running through my veins
Why you're gone? That's a mystery
That's the reason I still call your name
Lived each day to the fullest
Pushed himself to the edge
Nerves of steel scared of nothing
Had a good laugh 'til the end
And I heard through a phone call you were taken away
Too young to have ever lived all of your days
When I heard of the reason I'd questions 'bout why
What you loved to do took your life
And I know you're still out there
There's a hole, we will never be the same
Why you're gone? That's a mystery
That's the reason I still call your name
Reason I still call your name
Reason I still call your name
And I know that you're out there
'Cause I feel you running through my veins
Why you're gone? That's a mystery
That's the reason I still call your name
'Cause I know you're still out there
There's a hole, we will never be the same
Why you're gone? That's a mystery
That's the reason I still call your name
Nothing's safe, nothing's sound
Just when I think I'm invincible
The world turns it all upside down
Thought you'd be here all my lifetime
Working each day 'til it's end
You were much more than just family
You were more like a friend
And with one simple phone call you were taken away
I'm misunderstanding what justice it pays
Are the powers above us playing some kind of game?
Now I'm left here to carry your name
And I know that you're out there
'Cause I feel you running through my veins
Why you're gone? That's a mystery
That's the reason I still call your name
Lived each day to the fullest
Pushed himself to the edge
Nerves of steel scared of nothing
Had a good laugh 'til the end
And I heard through a phone call you were taken away
Too young to have ever lived all of your days
When I heard of the reason I'd questions 'bout why
What you loved to do took your life
And I know you're still out there
There's a hole, we will never be the same
Why you're gone? That's a mystery
That's the reason I still call your name
Reason I still call your name
Reason I still call your name
And I know that you're out there
'Cause I feel you running through my veins
Why you're gone? That's a mystery
That's the reason I still call your name
'Cause I know you're still out there
There's a hole, we will never be the same
Why you're gone? That's a mystery
That's the reason I still call your name
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