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's seven o'clock the mood is turning
The streets are burning
And all the roads lead to nowhere
Hear talk in the backroom getting louder
I'll know when I've found her
You know it when I get there
Don't fall through the cracks
There's no turning back
Once you've fallen in
It begins
Oh the days unwinding
The moon is rising
I'll be hiding from the sun
Light is blinding
You can't find me
I'll be hiding from the sun
Blackout in the morning are you with me?
Will you ever forgive me
When I tell you it's time to leave
Once is way too much
Twice ain't good enough
This is who I am
Once again
Oh the days unwinding
The moon is rising
I'll be hiding from the sun
Light is blinding
You can't find me
I'll be hiding from the sun
The streets are burning
And all the roads lead to nowhere
Hear talk in the backroom getting louder
I'll know when I've found her
You know it when I get there
Don't fall through the cracks
There's no turning back
Once you've fallen in
It begins
Oh the days unwinding
The moon is rising
I'll be hiding from the sun
Light is blinding
You can't find me
I'll be hiding from the sun
Blackout in the morning are you with me?
Will you ever forgive me
When I tell you it's time to leave
Once is way too much
Twice ain't good enough
This is who I am
Once again
Oh the days unwinding
The moon is rising
I'll be hiding from the sun
Light is blinding
You can't find me
I'll be hiding from the sun
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This is a great song and i can't believe no one commented on it yet. I think it can be understood from two points of view: The player point of view, he goes around and tries all the girls and now is tired about it. That would be if the 7 o'clock was meant 7am. If ti was 7pm, i think it makes sense as a guy's in love with this girl, but can't get himself to tell her, yet she already knows and she seems to like him to, but he just won't make his move and rather waits for her to make het move....