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"
Rain falls down in concentration
I finally come to the realization
That this place I'd once forsaken
Will consume my generation
Countless, endless summers
Opposing everything we've worked for
It was foolishness that made us wish
We could trade it all away
But that was years ago, he shrugs
Back when we smiled and tipped our mugs
A time when boys were men
Friends never stood alone
Do you remember when I said
I'd never walk this town again
But you didn't believe me and now
We cross our bridges only when we reach them
We burn them behind us just to see the smoke
We cross, we burn
We cross and we burn
Day after day this is the nothing we've learned
Progress for their promise
Hold my breath, now we're all hostage
Bite your tongue there son you're just no one
Too young to know the beat
And I'm not asking you for much more
Only something I could strive for
If I keep pride outside my head then
In my heart there will be peace
But that was years ago, he screams
Back when we still believed our dreams
And now we're left to doubt
Outstanding self owed debts
Do you remember when we said
We'd never end up just like them
Lost and bereaved, and now
We cross our bridges only when we reach them
We burn them behind us just to see the smoke
We cross, we burn
We cross and we burn
Day after day is the nothing we've learned
Can't we see what we owe to ourselves?
I finally come to the realization
That this place I'd once forsaken
Will consume my generation
Countless, endless summers
Opposing everything we've worked for
It was foolishness that made us wish
We could trade it all away
But that was years ago, he shrugs
Back when we smiled and tipped our mugs
A time when boys were men
Friends never stood alone
Do you remember when I said
I'd never walk this town again
But you didn't believe me and now
We cross our bridges only when we reach them
We burn them behind us just to see the smoke
We cross, we burn
We cross and we burn
Day after day this is the nothing we've learned
Progress for their promise
Hold my breath, now we're all hostage
Bite your tongue there son you're just no one
Too young to know the beat
And I'm not asking you for much more
Only something I could strive for
If I keep pride outside my head then
In my heart there will be peace
But that was years ago, he screams
Back when we still believed our dreams
And now we're left to doubt
Outstanding self owed debts
Do you remember when we said
We'd never end up just like them
Lost and bereaved, and now
We cross our bridges only when we reach them
We burn them behind us just to see the smoke
We cross, we burn
We cross and we burn
Day after day is the nothing we've learned
Can't we see what we owe to ourselves?
Lyrics submitted by punkpirate
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