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"
Would you just say something
Please just anything?
Because I can't stand
That look on your face
We're in over our heads
We're in over our heads, she said
I beg to differ with all your pointing fingers
And second guessing, my second chances
Because you're what's been keeping me up at night
One last time before I'm out that door
The bells keep ringing, wine and roses
This needs a compromise
Back and forth, here we go
We lose our self control
This old flame, it won't light itself
This needs a compromise
You're the spark, I'm the fuse
We'll make the perfect match
So what are you waiting for?
We're going to take this town alive
And show them what it's like
When pretty faces sleep with secrets
I'm still waiting for that moment
To get caught in the rain
It's getting late, we don't have much time
It's time to make a move
But these hands, they wander
Let's make this scene a crime
Now one last time before I'm out that door
Out that door, yeah
We're gonna take this town alive
And show them what it's like
When pretty faces sleep with secrets
Wake to the morning sun
Smile to the sunrise
Write to me tonight, tonight, tonight
It's gonna take more than
A miracle to save us now
We're gonna take this town alive
And show them what it's like
When pretty faces sleep with secrets
Would you just say something
Please just anything?
Because I can't stand
That look on your face
We're in over our heads
We're in over our heads, she said
This is the last time
Yeah, this is the last time
Please just anything?
Because I can't stand
That look on your face
We're in over our heads
We're in over our heads, she said
I beg to differ with all your pointing fingers
And second guessing, my second chances
Because you're what's been keeping me up at night
One last time before I'm out that door
The bells keep ringing, wine and roses
This needs a compromise
Back and forth, here we go
We lose our self control
This old flame, it won't light itself
This needs a compromise
You're the spark, I'm the fuse
We'll make the perfect match
So what are you waiting for?
We're going to take this town alive
And show them what it's like
When pretty faces sleep with secrets
I'm still waiting for that moment
To get caught in the rain
It's getting late, we don't have much time
It's time to make a move
But these hands, they wander
Let's make this scene a crime
Now one last time before I'm out that door
Out that door, yeah
We're gonna take this town alive
And show them what it's like
When pretty faces sleep with secrets
Wake to the morning sun
Smile to the sunrise
Write to me tonight, tonight, tonight
It's gonna take more than
A miracle to save us now
We're gonna take this town alive
And show them what it's like
When pretty faces sleep with secrets
Would you just say something
Please just anything?
Because I can't stand
That look on your face
We're in over our heads
We're in over our heads, she said
This is the last time
Yeah, this is the last time
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