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"
Black fingernails, red wine
I wanna make you all mine
A lot of people underground
You wanna get there
You gotta go straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
There's a culture everywhere
Smoke clouds hang in the air
So loud, can't hear you talk
You and I should take a walk downtown
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Downtown
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
The argument over God continues
In this house
All of us stand and point our fingers
At the ground
All of us stand and point our fingers
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Red letter day, black heart
It's gonna tear you all apart
So loud, can't hear you call
You and I are gonna fall straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Downtown
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
The argument over God continues
In this house
All of us stand and point our fingers
At the ground
The argument overall continues
In this house
All of us stand and point our fingers
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Black fingernails, red wine
I wanna make you all mine
A lot of people underground
You wanna get there
You gotta go straight down (down, down, down, down, down)
The argument over God continues
In this house
All of us stand and point our fingers
At the ground
The argument overall continues
In this house
All of us stand and point our fingers
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
I wanna make you all mine
A lot of people underground
You wanna get there
You gotta go straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
There's a culture everywhere
Smoke clouds hang in the air
So loud, can't hear you talk
You and I should take a walk downtown
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Downtown
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
The argument over God continues
In this house
All of us stand and point our fingers
At the ground
All of us stand and point our fingers
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Red letter day, black heart
It's gonna tear you all apart
So loud, can't hear you call
You and I are gonna fall straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Downtown
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
The argument over God continues
In this house
All of us stand and point our fingers
At the ground
The argument overall continues
In this house
All of us stand and point our fingers
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Black fingernails, red wine
I wanna make you all mine
A lot of people underground
You wanna get there
You gotta go straight down (down, down, down, down, down)
The argument over God continues
In this house
All of us stand and point our fingers
At the ground
The argument overall continues
In this house
All of us stand and point our fingers
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
Straight down
Oh wow oh
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