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"
Cow-call, and they were all calling together
describing the way to go
I never hurt someone so young
and I never held someone so sweet
Makes me want to holler with them
All the way down
All the way down
their voices show the way
how to hold it back
see the end of the day
shut their mouths, shut their mouths
and rip the pictures down
withdraw, withdraw, you live so far from town
This is what makes a thing last
won't make what didn't happen go
Take fear and call it lust
let me go lay in the snow
I cannot rest
with so many singing so many songs
and what a way of singing
Their voices are bringing trees to their knees
with nothing to say when they're speaking
They're quiet, the choir, their voices go higher
the choir, the choir, their voices go higher
describing the way to go
I never hurt someone so young
and I never held someone so sweet
Makes me want to holler with them
All the way down
All the way down
their voices show the way
how to hold it back
see the end of the day
shut their mouths, shut their mouths
and rip the pictures down
withdraw, withdraw, you live so far from town
This is what makes a thing last
won't make what didn't happen go
Take fear and call it lust
let me go lay in the snow
I cannot rest
with so many singing so many songs
and what a way of singing
Their voices are bringing trees to their knees
with nothing to say when they're speaking
They're quiet, the choir, their voices go higher
the choir, the choir, their voices go higher
Lyrics submitted by cultjam
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