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"
To be crushed is not to be hit and then left to recover.
It's to be left untouched,
Unable to pass from one place to another.
To be crushed is not to be held down by some minor influence.
It's to be left alone with nothing to understand.
To be drowning is not to be suffered as some cruel fate.
It should be taken as a blessing,
Maybe even a gift from god.
But I've never seen him give anything away
And I've never known him to have anything to say.
Which is why I've never felt any real need to pray.
It's to be left untouched,
Unable to pass from one place to another.
To be crushed is not to be held down by some minor influence.
It's to be left alone with nothing to understand.
To be drowning is not to be suffered as some cruel fate.
It should be taken as a blessing,
Maybe even a gift from god.
But I've never seen him give anything away
And I've never known him to have anything to say.
Which is why I've never felt any real need to pray.
Lyrics submitted by charcoalsketch, edited by mrkranky
Crushing Lyrics as written by Matthew Byron Kadane Edward George Kadane
Lyrics © SC PUBLISHING DBA SECRETLY CANADIAN PUB.
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