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"
You walked around
Said yourself beatufiul
Just too bad they stare
Just too bad they stare
Broke up your crown
Called you unusable
See how well you fair
Stole underground
To keep your heart around
Banished from above
Banished from above
Forgot yourself
Go home and shot your health
Left it all for love
And all their lips
Delirious quipps
Last seen with friends
Wishing them well
You
You listen for the truth
Just too bad they lied
Just too bad they lied
Oh come around
Inform our future youth
Summon from the sky
The future is cruel
Unusual fools
Leave them to rule in hollow point hell
Now listen to the truth
Cradle and a cry
Cradle and a cry
Your light will shine
Keep your head on high
Keep your head on high
You walk around
Know you are beautiful
Aimless and alive
Broken and defined
Walk around know you are future youth
Summon to the sky
Said yourself beatufiul
Just too bad they stare
Just too bad they stare
Broke up your crown
Called you unusable
See how well you fair
Stole underground
To keep your heart around
Banished from above
Banished from above
Forgot yourself
Go home and shot your health
Left it all for love
And all their lips
Delirious quipps
Last seen with friends
Wishing them well
You
You listen for the truth
Just too bad they lied
Just too bad they lied
Oh come around
Inform our future youth
Summon from the sky
The future is cruel
Unusual fools
Leave them to rule in hollow point hell
Now listen to the truth
Cradle and a cry
Cradle and a cry
Your light will shine
Keep your head on high
Keep your head on high
You walk around
Know you are beautiful
Aimless and alive
Broken and defined
Walk around know you are future youth
Summon to the sky
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The lyrics shown here are just crap but I don't know how to edit this, so I'll just post the whole lyrics right.
you walked around thought yourself beatufiul just too bad they stared just too bad they stared broke up your crown called you unusable see how well you fared
stole underground to kick your heart around banished from above vanished from above forgot yourself go home and shot your health left it all for love
and on their lips delirious quips last seen with friends wishing them well
delayed, seduced you listened for the truth just too bad they lied just too bad they lied o come around in form of future youth summoned from the sky
ono omode
refuse this cruel unusual fools leave them to rule in hollowpoint hell
you've much to do now listen to the truth cradled in a cry cradled in a cry your light'll shine keep your head on high keep your head on high
you walk around know you are beautiful aimless and alive broken and divine walk around know you are future youth summoned to the sky
Very beautiful song though, one of the best on "Cookie Mountain". According to me the song is something like an "Ode to Youth" - as it once was - and how hard it is today to define yourself as a young man or woman. Because consumption culture stole everything to define yourself with and made fashion products out of it.