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"
wan yi ge you xi
tan suo yi xia ai qing dao di
you duo shen mi
you mei you luo ji
wo wen wo zi ji
ru guo ni de yang zi bian cheng
shi nu bi
shi fou liu xia yi yang de hui yi
ru guo ni shi ma li
shi chu li cha li hai shi ban ben long yi
hui bu hui you hen da guan xi
a ru guo ni shi jia de
si xiang ling hun zhu zai bie de shen ti
wo hai ai bu ai ni
a ru guo ni bu shi ni
wen rou de ni chang le san tou liu bi
yong bao ni tian bu tian mi
bian lian de wan yi
zheng ming ai yi ge ren
dao di rong bu rong yi
suan bu suan pian yi
duo ke ge ke qi
wan yi ni de mian kong
shi qu yuan you bi li
yao bu yao jian chi wan mei zhu yi
ENGLISH TRANSLATION :
Play a game
Investigate a while
How mysterious love is
Has any logic or not
I ask myself
If your look became Snoopy
Will is leave the same memory
If you are Mary, Julie, Charlie or Sakamoto Ryūichi
will there be a big difference
Ah, if you are fake
Thinking, spirit living at another body
Will I still love you
Ah If you are not you
the gentle you grew 3 heads 6 shoulders
Hugging you, sweet or not
The thrill of changing faces
Proofs that loving a person
whether its easy or not
is it cheap or not
Much that can be (sing)happy and (cry)sad about
What if your face lost its original contours
Want to insist on perfect opinion or not
玩一个游戏
探索一下爱情到底有多神秘
有没有逻辑
我问我自己
如果你的样子变成史奴比
是否留下一样的回忆
如果你是玛莉
是茱莉查理还是坂本龙一
会不会有很大关系
啊如果你是假的
思想灵魂住在别的身体
我还爱不爱你
啊如果你不是你
温柔的你长了三头六臂
拥抱你甜不甜蜜
变脸的玩意
证明爱一个人到底容不容易
算不算便宜
多可歌可泣
万一你的面孔失去原有比例
要不要坚持完美主义
tan suo yi xia ai qing dao di
you duo shen mi
you mei you luo ji
wo wen wo zi ji
ru guo ni de yang zi bian cheng
shi nu bi
shi fou liu xia yi yang de hui yi
ru guo ni shi ma li
shi chu li cha li hai shi ban ben long yi
hui bu hui you hen da guan xi
a ru guo ni shi jia de
si xiang ling hun zhu zai bie de shen ti
wo hai ai bu ai ni
a ru guo ni bu shi ni
wen rou de ni chang le san tou liu bi
yong bao ni tian bu tian mi
bian lian de wan yi
zheng ming ai yi ge ren
dao di rong bu rong yi
suan bu suan pian yi
duo ke ge ke qi
wan yi ni de mian kong
shi qu yuan you bi li
yao bu yao jian chi wan mei zhu yi
ENGLISH TRANSLATION :
Play a game
Investigate a while
How mysterious love is
Has any logic or not
I ask myself
If your look became Snoopy
Will is leave the same memory
If you are Mary, Julie, Charlie or Sakamoto Ryūichi
will there be a big difference
Ah, if you are fake
Thinking, spirit living at another body
Will I still love you
Ah If you are not you
the gentle you grew 3 heads 6 shoulders
Hugging you, sweet or not
The thrill of changing faces
Proofs that loving a person
whether its easy or not
is it cheap or not
Much that can be (sing)happy and (cry)sad about
What if your face lost its original contours
Want to insist on perfect opinion or not
玩一个游戏
探索一下爱情到底有多神秘
有没有逻辑
我问我自己
如果你的样子变成史奴比
是否留下一样的回忆
如果你是玛莉
是茱莉查理还是坂本龙一
会不会有很大关系
啊如果你是假的
思想灵魂住在别的身体
我还爱不爱你
啊如果你不是你
温柔的你长了三头六臂
拥抱你甜不甜蜜
变脸的玩意
证明爱一个人到底容不容易
算不算便宜
多可歌可泣
万一你的面孔失去原有比例
要不要坚持完美主义
Lyrics submitted by justling
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