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"
This is for all the girls
Who never got to know me
And who touched these lips
But never really got a kiss
And who held my hands
And maybe even learned a few things
But unfortunately
You didn't learn a lot about me
And I tried my best to give you what
You wanted most but it wasn't enough
And short love you gave up
Too soon on me
And short love you messed up
One too many times before me
Why are you so scared
To have some insecurities?
Why are you so scared
To turn and face me?
At least look at me
I tried my best to give you what
You wanted most but it wasn't enough
And short love you gave up
Too soon on me
And short love you messed up
One too many times before me
But I'm not good with words in these kinds of situations
Now I know neither are you
So we'll forget what we just said
I'll take that back and you hold your breath
And we'll just wait and see
But you know this is the last time that you will see me
And you know this is the last time that you will see me
And short love you gave up
Too soon on me
And short love you messed up
One too many times before me
And short love you gave up
Too soon on me
And short love you messed up
One too many times before me
Who never got to know me
And who touched these lips
But never really got a kiss
And who held my hands
And maybe even learned a few things
But unfortunately
You didn't learn a lot about me
And I tried my best to give you what
You wanted most but it wasn't enough
And short love you gave up
Too soon on me
And short love you messed up
One too many times before me
Why are you so scared
To have some insecurities?
Why are you so scared
To turn and face me?
At least look at me
I tried my best to give you what
You wanted most but it wasn't enough
And short love you gave up
Too soon on me
And short love you messed up
One too many times before me
But I'm not good with words in these kinds of situations
Now I know neither are you
So we'll forget what we just said
I'll take that back and you hold your breath
And we'll just wait and see
But you know this is the last time that you will see me
And you know this is the last time that you will see me
And short love you gave up
Too soon on me
And short love you messed up
One too many times before me
And short love you gave up
Too soon on me
And short love you messed up
One too many times before me
Lyrics submitted by hopelessly_hopeful
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