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"
To do to me is to do the same
To do to me is d-d-do the same
Whatcha doin'
Whatcha doin'
Whatcha doin'
Whatcha doi-doi-doin'
Whatcha doin'
Whatcha doin' to me?
Whatcha do to me is to do the same
Whatcha do to me is d-d-do the same
I've been linkin' a mind untainted
And I don't know if it'll make the chain
How many times do I have to break it down
Till you conceive what I'm saying
Push it further
Push me, you push me all the way
Don't look at me
I've paid my dues
Your time, your dime
Listen to you
For what it's worth I'm there for you
Anyway
But it's not up to me
To help you to succeed
But I'll listen to you
And what you want me to
And you always seem to know
That you'll always choose to go
And I always choose to know
That I'll always see you go
Push it further
Push it all the way
Don't look at me
I've paid my dues
Your time, your dime
Listen to you
For what it's worth I'm there for you
Anyway
But it's not up to me
To help you to succeed
But I'll listen to you
And what you want me to
But it's not up to me
To help you to succeed
But I'll listen to you
And what you want me to
Push it further
Push it all the way
But it's not up to me
To help you to succeed
But I'll listen to you
And what you want me to
[Allie Sheldan from Rio Bent]
Let the leash slip from your hands
I'm tired or these reins
Don't tie me up
Confuse me with
Don't think I'm the same
And if the hand that holds me
Is the hand that holds me down
I'm gunna cut the strings
And cut my loss
And knock the cage door down
To do to me is to do the same
Don't believe in what you see
Believe in what you mean
Do to me is to do the same
I dont think you see this meal
Of anger is a feast
What you'll soon discover is
You're full of your own beast
Close your mouth and eyes
And then I'll listen for the score
Don't want to look behind and see
Blood on the floor
[Allie Sheldan from Rio Bent]
I won't break don't take
Your mistake is what you make
Don't leave your ghost
I'm not your host
Your take is not my fate
Let the leash slip from your hands
I'm tired or these reins
Don't tie me up
Confuse me with
Don't think I'm the same
And if the hand that holds me
Is the hand that holds me down
I'm going to cut the strings
And cut my loss
And knock the cage door down
I won't break, I won't take
I won't, won't, won't break
The chance to recreate
You know is under my control
I won't take, I won't fake
I know I've lost control
This automatic, self attracted
System doesn't care
To do to me is d-d-do the same
Whatcha doin'
Whatcha doin'
Whatcha doin'
Whatcha doi-doi-doin'
Whatcha doin'
Whatcha doin' to me?
Whatcha do to me is to do the same
Whatcha do to me is d-d-do the same
I've been linkin' a mind untainted
And I don't know if it'll make the chain
How many times do I have to break it down
Till you conceive what I'm saying
Push it further
Push me, you push me all the way
Don't look at me
I've paid my dues
Your time, your dime
Listen to you
For what it's worth I'm there for you
Anyway
But it's not up to me
To help you to succeed
But I'll listen to you
And what you want me to
And you always seem to know
That you'll always choose to go
And I always choose to know
That I'll always see you go
Push it further
Push it all the way
Don't look at me
I've paid my dues
Your time, your dime
Listen to you
For what it's worth I'm there for you
Anyway
But it's not up to me
To help you to succeed
But I'll listen to you
And what you want me to
But it's not up to me
To help you to succeed
But I'll listen to you
And what you want me to
Push it further
Push it all the way
But it's not up to me
To help you to succeed
But I'll listen to you
And what you want me to
[Allie Sheldan from Rio Bent]
Let the leash slip from your hands
I'm tired or these reins
Don't tie me up
Confuse me with
Don't think I'm the same
And if the hand that holds me
Is the hand that holds me down
I'm gunna cut the strings
And cut my loss
And knock the cage door down
To do to me is to do the same
Don't believe in what you see
Believe in what you mean
Do to me is to do the same
I dont think you see this meal
Of anger is a feast
What you'll soon discover is
You're full of your own beast
Close your mouth and eyes
And then I'll listen for the score
Don't want to look behind and see
Blood on the floor
[Allie Sheldan from Rio Bent]
I won't break don't take
Your mistake is what you make
Don't leave your ghost
I'm not your host
Your take is not my fate
Let the leash slip from your hands
I'm tired or these reins
Don't tie me up
Confuse me with
Don't think I'm the same
And if the hand that holds me
Is the hand that holds me down
I'm going to cut the strings
And cut my loss
And knock the cage door down
I won't break, I won't take
I won't, won't, won't break
The chance to recreate
You know is under my control
I won't take, I won't fake
I know I've lost control
This automatic, self attracted
System doesn't care
Lyrics submitted by Tell_Me_Why
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I was confused about that too. I will have a closer look at that part