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"
It was raining outside, so I cleaned house today
Spent half of the morning throwing old things away
Try not to get caught up
Try to think like a machine
Focus in on the task
Try not to think about what it means
Can't get you
Out of my head
Lost without you
Half dead
Took my spot at the window
Looked at the road
Dots and dashes of traffic
Like a message in code
And whole boxes of memories
Wrapped up at the curb
I sang songs to myself
Didn't have any words
Can't get you
Out of my head
Lost without you
Half dead
Stole out to the back yard late last night
Pine trees frozen in the silvery moonlight
Rising like giants from the cold earth
What are the years we gave each other
Ever gonna be worth?
Can't get you
Out of my head
Lost without you
Half dead
Spent half of the morning throwing old things away
Try not to get caught up
Try to think like a machine
Focus in on the task
Try not to think about what it means
Can't get you
Out of my head
Lost without you
Half dead
Took my spot at the window
Looked at the road
Dots and dashes of traffic
Like a message in code
And whole boxes of memories
Wrapped up at the curb
I sang songs to myself
Didn't have any words
Can't get you
Out of my head
Lost without you
Half dead
Stole out to the back yard late last night
Pine trees frozen in the silvery moonlight
Rising like giants from the cold earth
What are the years we gave each other
Ever gonna be worth?
Can't get you
Out of my head
Lost without you
Half dead
Lyrics submitted by mdon06
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