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"
(with mark mallman)
you're dressing like a little girl.
you never used to be that way.
but when i saw you yesterday,
you'd even changed your face.
you looked at me and then you looked away.
it was a year ago today.
your mouth was hanging open wide.
i held a map of things to come,
then lost you in the rerun,
and once again, to sleeping with oblivion.
so burn another calendar
and torch the memory of
what's only just a little year,
it seems like lifetimes since you've been here.
it's only what we said.
well, that was love.
they're breaking bottles at the bar.
out in the parking lot, they're breaking even more.
like on the night we met, you said,
they'd one day find me dead
and in a coffin there is room for only one.
you know you are the only one.
don't get up; it's only me.
who saw your number in my book,
who called you then hung up,
and went again to sleeping with oblivion.
you know you are the only one.
you're dressing like a little girl.
you never used to be that way.
but when i saw you yesterday,
you'd even changed your face.
you looked at me and then you looked away.
it was a year ago today.
your mouth was hanging open wide.
i held a map of things to come,
then lost you in the rerun,
and once again, to sleeping with oblivion.
so burn another calendar
and torch the memory of
what's only just a little year,
it seems like lifetimes since you've been here.
it's only what we said.
well, that was love.
they're breaking bottles at the bar.
out in the parking lot, they're breaking even more.
like on the night we met, you said,
they'd one day find me dead
and in a coffin there is room for only one.
you know you are the only one.
don't get up; it's only me.
who saw your number in my book,
who called you then hung up,
and went again to sleeping with oblivion.
you know you are the only one.
Lyrics submitted by charcoalsketch
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