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"
Nobody knows
Nobody knows but me
That I sometimes cry
If I could pretend that I'm asleep
When my tears start to fall
I peek out from behind these walls
I think nobody knows
Nobody knows, no
Nobody likes
Nobody likes to lose that inner voice
The one I used to hear before my life
Made a choice
But I think nobody knows
No, no
Nobody knows
No
Baby (aaah)
Oh, the secret's safe with me (aaah)
There's nowhere else in the world that I could ever be (aaah)
And, baby, don't it feel like I'm all alone?
Who's gonna be there after the last angel has flown (aaah)
And I've lost my way back home? (aaah)
I think nobody knows, no
Said nobody knows
Nobody cares (uuuh)
It's win or lose, not how you play the game
And the road to darkness has a way
Of always knowing my name
But I think nobody knows
No, no
Nobody knows, no, no, no, no
Baby (aaah)
Oh, the secret's safe with me (aaah)
There's nowhere else in the world that I could ever be (aaah)
And, baby, don't it feel like I'm all alone?
Who's gonna be there after the last angel has flown (aaah)
And I've lost my way back home? (aaah)
And, no, no, no, no, no
Nobody knows, no (aaah)
No, no, no, no, no
Tomorrow I'll be there, my friend
I'll wake up and start all over again
When everybody else is gone
No, no, no
Nobody knows
Nobody knows the rhythm of my heart
The way I do when I'm lying in the dark
And the world is asleep
I think nobody knows
Nobody knows
Nobody knows but me
Me
Nobody knows but me
That I sometimes cry
If I could pretend that I'm asleep
When my tears start to fall
I peek out from behind these walls
I think nobody knows
Nobody knows, no
Nobody likes
Nobody likes to lose that inner voice
The one I used to hear before my life
Made a choice
But I think nobody knows
No, no
Nobody knows
No
Baby (aaah)
Oh, the secret's safe with me (aaah)
There's nowhere else in the world that I could ever be (aaah)
And, baby, don't it feel like I'm all alone?
Who's gonna be there after the last angel has flown (aaah)
And I've lost my way back home? (aaah)
I think nobody knows, no
Said nobody knows
Nobody cares (uuuh)
It's win or lose, not how you play the game
And the road to darkness has a way
Of always knowing my name
But I think nobody knows
No, no
Nobody knows, no, no, no, no
Baby (aaah)
Oh, the secret's safe with me (aaah)
There's nowhere else in the world that I could ever be (aaah)
And, baby, don't it feel like I'm all alone?
Who's gonna be there after the last angel has flown (aaah)
And I've lost my way back home? (aaah)
And, no, no, no, no, no
Nobody knows, no (aaah)
No, no, no, no, no
Tomorrow I'll be there, my friend
I'll wake up and start all over again
When everybody else is gone
No, no, no
Nobody knows
Nobody knows the rhythm of my heart
The way I do when I'm lying in the dark
And the world is asleep
I think nobody knows
Nobody knows
Nobody knows but me
Me
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