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"
Annie, try and get some sleep, love.
your eyes look so heavy.
and the monster underneath your bed, dear,
won't bother you anymore,
he's coming to stay with me.
and if the weight of your woe's
are too much to handle,
hand them on over to me.
cause sometimes everyone needs a litt more than they've got.
and someone else has got more than they need.
so we'll stand, hand in hand, on my roof
and watch the ants scatter when the lights get turned on.
the waves will come crashing in,
they flicker like flames against the walls,
but still we won't flinch.
are you scared?
not a chance!
maybe a little bit...
but even the best books must end.
so close your eyes,
smile,
and promise not to peek,
while Spokane, Washington slips into the sea.
preasure for penetration.
unrealistic goals to have magazine faces.
symmetrical Starbucks religion.
it's an antiquated earth with a lukewarm indifference.
but i wouldn't change a thing, oh no.
the world's an ugly canvas,
but you're the prettiest paint.
sometimes you might need a little more than you've got,
and i hope i've got more than i need.
so we'll stand, hand in hand, on my roof
and watch the ants scatter when the lights get turned on.
the waves will come crashing in,
they flicker like flames against the walls,
but still we won't flinch.
are you scared?
not a chance!
maybe a little bit...
but even my favorite books end.
so close your eyes,
smile,
and promise not to peek...
while Spokane, Washington slips into the sea.
your eyes look so heavy.
and the monster underneath your bed, dear,
won't bother you anymore,
he's coming to stay with me.
and if the weight of your woe's
are too much to handle,
hand them on over to me.
cause sometimes everyone needs a litt more than they've got.
and someone else has got more than they need.
so we'll stand, hand in hand, on my roof
and watch the ants scatter when the lights get turned on.
the waves will come crashing in,
they flicker like flames against the walls,
but still we won't flinch.
are you scared?
not a chance!
maybe a little bit...
but even the best books must end.
so close your eyes,
smile,
and promise not to peek,
while Spokane, Washington slips into the sea.
preasure for penetration.
unrealistic goals to have magazine faces.
symmetrical Starbucks religion.
it's an antiquated earth with a lukewarm indifference.
but i wouldn't change a thing, oh no.
the world's an ugly canvas,
but you're the prettiest paint.
sometimes you might need a little more than you've got,
and i hope i've got more than i need.
so we'll stand, hand in hand, on my roof
and watch the ants scatter when the lights get turned on.
the waves will come crashing in,
they flicker like flames against the walls,
but still we won't flinch.
are you scared?
not a chance!
maybe a little bit...
but even my favorite books end.
so close your eyes,
smile,
and promise not to peek...
while Spokane, Washington slips into the sea.
Lyrics submitted by DeathByPoison
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