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"
Wiping the sleep from my eyes
Waking up to no surprises
The feeling of compromise
Telling you my dear, you don't brighten my day
Step into the water cold
These mornings are getting old
Turning the motor over again and again
I just have to get away
My mother told me that
There would be days like this
[Chorus]
And it's true
There's no feelings
Shackled to the sheets that
Bind me to you,
No more dreaming
1, 2, 3 Bad Morning
Turning and tossing at night
Falling asleep with my eyes wide
Bad moods are justified
Telling you something I don't feel the same
Step in my dream for a while
The nightmare of every child
Finding the monster under again and again
I just have to get away
My mother told me that
There would be days like this
[Chorus]
I wish I never woke up this morning
I wish I never spoke up today
I have seen better days
[Chorus: x2]
1, 2, 3 Bad Morning
Waking up to no surprises
The feeling of compromise
Telling you my dear, you don't brighten my day
Step into the water cold
These mornings are getting old
Turning the motor over again and again
I just have to get away
My mother told me that
There would be days like this
[Chorus]
And it's true
There's no feelings
Shackled to the sheets that
Bind me to you,
No more dreaming
1, 2, 3 Bad Morning
Turning and tossing at night
Falling asleep with my eyes wide
Bad moods are justified
Telling you something I don't feel the same
Step in my dream for a while
The nightmare of every child
Finding the monster under again and again
I just have to get away
My mother told me that
There would be days like this
[Chorus]
I wish I never woke up this morning
I wish I never spoke up today
I have seen better days
[Chorus: x2]
1, 2, 3 Bad Morning
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