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"
There’s a song spreading “I love you”s like wet shoes in rainy days
Convincing me I have been living the same day, again and again
And I keep pictures of perfection, for whenever I don’t feel safe
Like a broken record we keep, although it’s never being played again
But if there’s still room in the sunshine then I know I’ll be just fine
If there are memories and soundtracks, I guess there’s gotta be a smile
So I keep hanging around in the sunshine, ‘cause that’s where things feel just right
And well, I guess this is the story of my life
(And that’s another reason to feel good with)
There are sugar words in rock songs, words I seem to know by heart
Just add fireworks and maybe a brand new year is about to start
And all those pictures of perfection, there’s no use for them right now
I’ll be fine as long as there are sugar words I can sing out loud
12 new cracks on my own barricade... metaphors are ok
Just let it be as vague as me
If there are memories and soundtracks then there is reason to survive
So I keep hanging around in the sunshine, ‘cause that’s where I feel alive
And I still save that word for really special times... I guess I can tell these are the best days of my life
Convincing me I have been living the same day, again and again
And I keep pictures of perfection, for whenever I don’t feel safe
Like a broken record we keep, although it’s never being played again
But if there’s still room in the sunshine then I know I’ll be just fine
If there are memories and soundtracks, I guess there’s gotta be a smile
So I keep hanging around in the sunshine, ‘cause that’s where things feel just right
And well, I guess this is the story of my life
(And that’s another reason to feel good with)
There are sugar words in rock songs, words I seem to know by heart
Just add fireworks and maybe a brand new year is about to start
And all those pictures of perfection, there’s no use for them right now
I’ll be fine as long as there are sugar words I can sing out loud
12 new cracks on my own barricade... metaphors are ok
Just let it be as vague as me
If there are memories and soundtracks then there is reason to survive
So I keep hanging around in the sunshine, ‘cause that’s where I feel alive
And I still save that word for really special times... I guess I can tell these are the best days of my life
Lyrics submitted by gustavo_
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