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"
I got no sense of time
The second hand slaps
Me, oh, so silly
And insults my character now
For I like my
Mood to lead me
I walk into your room
Prepared with reasons why I can't join
You for this whole afternoon
I just got one day
Of writing it all down
And oh, so here I go
I must seize all my time by
Grabbing this old clock setter
By his bald gray forelock
All wasted on the job
My life span quickly shortening
And rushing and only half done
Can't remember how old that I am
Not one minute to sit
I look so busy, you don't
Bother not anymore to
Ask for my help
Not a yelp
I must seize all my time by
Grabbing this clock setter
By his gray forelock
And at this very same moment
Take this task at hand
The one that landed right in my lap
When folks refuse to see
How much is too much
I shall turn away then to thee
In thee great chronicle
Of wasted time through these years
Sleeping does not appear now
I must seize all my time by
Grabbing this clock setter
By his gray forelock
And at this very same moment
Take this task at hand
The one that landed right in my lap
When folks refuse to see
How much is too much
I shall turn away then to thee
For time is man's problem
A gift from dad with a plan
And the means to, to complete
The means to complete
Means to, to complete
The second hand slaps
Me, oh, so silly
And insults my character now
For I like my
Mood to lead me
I walk into your room
Prepared with reasons why I can't join
You for this whole afternoon
I just got one day
Of writing it all down
And oh, so here I go
I must seize all my time by
Grabbing this old clock setter
By his bald gray forelock
All wasted on the job
My life span quickly shortening
And rushing and only half done
Can't remember how old that I am
Not one minute to sit
I look so busy, you don't
Bother not anymore to
Ask for my help
Not a yelp
I must seize all my time by
Grabbing this clock setter
By his gray forelock
And at this very same moment
Take this task at hand
The one that landed right in my lap
When folks refuse to see
How much is too much
I shall turn away then to thee
In thee great chronicle
Of wasted time through these years
Sleeping does not appear now
I must seize all my time by
Grabbing this clock setter
By his gray forelock
And at this very same moment
Take this task at hand
The one that landed right in my lap
When folks refuse to see
How much is too much
I shall turn away then to thee
For time is man's problem
A gift from dad with a plan
And the means to, to complete
The means to complete
Means to, to complete
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