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"
I don't talk much to you
And you don't talk much to me
There's fifteen things that you'd have to change
Till I considered you to be
Something slightly more than bravado
You know that you do it so well
But if I got to know
The way you to and fro
I bet I'd throw you out
Cause you don't have no love
I can tell
Oh, what you've got is what your friends say
And what they say is nothing like they think
And all the cards are on the table
And one too many alcopops to drink
It's all a different tailored story
The gloves are off and the claws are out
They'll all be sorry in the morning
They can't recall what it was all about
What was it all about?
Well yes I, know it's gonna be alright
Go home, get a bollocking
But let us know that you're doing fine
Don't let them give you that look
Cause the boys think that they're trendy
And the girls are living out of their books
They're living out of their books
She contradicts and patronises
Every single comment that you make
And if she's such a royal highness
I wouldn't bother with her anyway
Well some claim she's amazing
They would do anything to catch her eye
They want to study their reflection
On car windows as they walk on by
Walk on by
Well yes I, know it's gonna be alright
Go home, get a bollocking
But let us know that you're doing fine
Don't let them give you that look
Cause the boys think that they're trendy
And the girls are living out of their books
They're living out of their books
Well the boys think that they're trendy
And the girls are living out of their books!
And you don't talk much to me
There's fifteen things that you'd have to change
Till I considered you to be
Something slightly more than bravado
You know that you do it so well
But if I got to know
The way you to and fro
I bet I'd throw you out
Cause you don't have no love
I can tell
Oh, what you've got is what your friends say
And what they say is nothing like they think
And all the cards are on the table
And one too many alcopops to drink
It's all a different tailored story
The gloves are off and the claws are out
They'll all be sorry in the morning
They can't recall what it was all about
What was it all about?
Well yes I, know it's gonna be alright
Go home, get a bollocking
But let us know that you're doing fine
Don't let them give you that look
Cause the boys think that they're trendy
And the girls are living out of their books
They're living out of their books
She contradicts and patronises
Every single comment that you make
And if she's such a royal highness
I wouldn't bother with her anyway
Well some claim she's amazing
They would do anything to catch her eye
They want to study their reflection
On car windows as they walk on by
Walk on by
Well yes I, know it's gonna be alright
Go home, get a bollocking
But let us know that you're doing fine
Don't let them give you that look
Cause the boys think that they're trendy
And the girls are living out of their books
They're living out of their books
Well the boys think that they're trendy
And the girls are living out of their books!
Lyrics submitted by ThrilledByMusic
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