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"
Start with colors
They always get away with attitude
But they'll try to convince you of your mood
And what you want they'll give it to you
But it's only therapy, that's all they do
And for a year
She was anti-pioneer
Singing sappy songs
About what went wrong
Two years before
But even now
When the false is true
When I call me you
When the flag changes colors
The language knows
When the month changes numbers
It's time to go
When the flag changes colors
The language knows
When the month changes numbers
It's time to go
Anti-pioneer
Anti-pioneer
Anti-pioneer
Anti-pioneer
And for a year
She was anti-pioneer
They passed her off too late
To change her future's fate
But even now when the false gets true
And living colors seem possible to you
When the flag changes colors
The language knows
When the month changes numbers
It's time to go
When the flag changes colors
The language knows
When the month changes numbers
It's time to go home
They always get away with attitude
But they'll try to convince you of your mood
And what you want they'll give it to you
But it's only therapy, that's all they do
And for a year
She was anti-pioneer
Singing sappy songs
About what went wrong
Two years before
But even now
When the false is true
When I call me you
When the flag changes colors
The language knows
When the month changes numbers
It's time to go
When the flag changes colors
The language knows
When the month changes numbers
It's time to go
Anti-pioneer
Anti-pioneer
Anti-pioneer
Anti-pioneer
And for a year
She was anti-pioneer
They passed her off too late
To change her future's fate
But even now when the false gets true
And living colors seem possible to you
When the flag changes colors
The language knows
When the month changes numbers
It's time to go
When the flag changes colors
The language knows
When the month changes numbers
It's time to go home
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