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"
And we'll float to the end
Where the oceans do bend
And we'll fly away
And we'll shine on through
Through the summer sky so blue
And we'll drift away
And we'll stare at the sun
While the sound
And shapes run up the chimney
We will drive in the clouds
Trampoline up and down
To our symphony
And we'll float to the end
Where the oceans do bend
And we'll fly away and we'll fly away
We'll shine on through
Through the summer sky so blue
And we'll drift away and we'll drift away
We wake at ten
And start out lives again
It's another day, it's another day
Together in a room
Where the wall flowers bloom
It's a marigold way
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll float to the end
Where the oceans do bend
And we'll fly away
And we'll shine on through
Through the summer sky so blue
And we'll drift away
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
Go back, go back
Go back, go back, go back
Where the oceans do bend
And we'll fly away
And we'll shine on through
Through the summer sky so blue
And we'll drift away
And we'll stare at the sun
While the sound
And shapes run up the chimney
We will drive in the clouds
Trampoline up and down
To our symphony
And we'll float to the end
Where the oceans do bend
And we'll fly away and we'll fly away
We'll shine on through
Through the summer sky so blue
And we'll drift away and we'll drift away
We wake at ten
And start out lives again
It's another day, it's another day
Together in a room
Where the wall flowers bloom
It's a marigold way
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll float to the end
Where the oceans do bend
And we'll fly away
And we'll shine on through
Through the summer sky so blue
And we'll drift away
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
And we'll never go back
Go back, go back
Go back, go back, go back
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