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"
Try and put me down
You can't comprehend
In the places
In The Life that Ive Been
Hold your tounge some how
Lie And put me down
With all of My life givin'
Look at me this once
Don't you turn your head
While you tell
Me you Love Him
Don't you cry again
When you see the past
I've Just left
And spit in your face
Everyone thinks
Lieeee too yourself
And then make believe
Why
I gave myself
To live with to face to Die
What i was possed to
And look into your Eye
Waitin' to touch you
And make everything all Right
I'm so lonely Wait
Look at me this once
Don't you turn your head
While you tell me you love him
Don't you cry again
When you see the past
I've just left
And spit in your face
Don't turn you head
Don't turn you head
Don't turn you head
Don't deny it
Don't deny it
You can't comprehend
In the places
In The Life that Ive Been
Hold your tounge some how
Lie And put me down
With all of My life givin'
Look at me this once
Don't you turn your head
While you tell
Me you Love Him
Don't you cry again
When you see the past
I've Just left
And spit in your face
Everyone thinks
Lieeee too yourself
And then make believe
Why
I gave myself
To live with to face to Die
What i was possed to
And look into your Eye
Waitin' to touch you
And make everything all Right
I'm so lonely Wait
Look at me this once
Don't you turn your head
While you tell me you love him
Don't you cry again
When you see the past
I've just left
And spit in your face
Don't turn you head
Don't turn you head
Don't turn you head
Don't deny it
Don't deny it
Lyrics submitted by Foostaple
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