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"
1, 2, 3... do you love me?
4, 5, 6, you're a 7
On a scale of how much you make me feel closer to heaven
I don't know, how she could show all the love that's inside her
Oh yeah but how it hurts cuz we know that we can't let go
Cuz it's so the worst... without her
I'm making myself good so the day that I come to you,
To see this through
You don't mean to be so cute
Without you, I don't know what I would do
But sometimes you make me so confused
You don't mean to seem so rude
Cuz it's cold outside you know
When you're away I try to be so right
Close those big brown eyes tonight
Make my dreams come true and be mine
Go to this place you go
You don't see how much you mean to me
Mean to me
Drama attack, hard to hold back
When you're sad, you decide that
It all comes down that you saw that
Now you need that it's hard not to come back
Walking this view
Thinking of too many times I fell for you
You know it's sad but true
But everything I do is for you
(and I still do)
I'm making myself good so the day that I come to you,
To see this through, you don't mean to be so cute
Without you, I don't know what I would do
But sometimes you make me so confused
You don't mean to seem so rude
Cuz it's cold outside you know
When you're away I try to be so right
Close those big brown eyes tonight
Make my dreams come true and be mine
Go to this place you go
You don't see how much you mean to me
Mean to me
I don't know how I don't regret those times
that every time I'd fall
Sometimes I wonder why I talk
I don't know how I could have thought
That you had found a place to stop
Just hoping like me, you had thought...
That we're all we've got
I'll say to myself that I don't care
I'll be here for you any day or anywhere
You just say those words
And I'll be there, cuz I don't care, anymore.
4, 5, 6, you're a 7
On a scale of how much you make me feel closer to heaven
I don't know, how she could show all the love that's inside her
Oh yeah but how it hurts cuz we know that we can't let go
Cuz it's so the worst... without her
I'm making myself good so the day that I come to you,
To see this through
You don't mean to be so cute
Without you, I don't know what I would do
But sometimes you make me so confused
You don't mean to seem so rude
Cuz it's cold outside you know
When you're away I try to be so right
Close those big brown eyes tonight
Make my dreams come true and be mine
Go to this place you go
You don't see how much you mean to me
Mean to me
Drama attack, hard to hold back
When you're sad, you decide that
It all comes down that you saw that
Now you need that it's hard not to come back
Walking this view
Thinking of too many times I fell for you
You know it's sad but true
But everything I do is for you
(and I still do)
I'm making myself good so the day that I come to you,
To see this through, you don't mean to be so cute
Without you, I don't know what I would do
But sometimes you make me so confused
You don't mean to seem so rude
Cuz it's cold outside you know
When you're away I try to be so right
Close those big brown eyes tonight
Make my dreams come true and be mine
Go to this place you go
You don't see how much you mean to me
Mean to me
I don't know how I don't regret those times
that every time I'd fall
Sometimes I wonder why I talk
I don't know how I could have thought
That you had found a place to stop
Just hoping like me, you had thought...
That we're all we've got
I'll say to myself that I don't care
I'll be here for you any day or anywhere
You just say those words
And I'll be there, cuz I don't care, anymore.
Lyrics submitted by mr_guitar89, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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