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"
Si la muerte viene y pregunta por mí
Haga el favor
De decirle que vuelva mañana
Que todavía no han cancelado mis deudas
Ni he terminado un poema
Ni he ordenado mi ropa para el viaje
Ni he llevado a su destino el encargo ajeno
Ni he echado llave en mis gavetas.
Ni he dicho lo que debía decir a los amigos
Ni he sentido el olor de la rosa
Que no ha nacido
Ni he desenterrado mis raíces
Ni he escrito una carta pendiente
Que ni siquiera me he lavado las manos
Ni he conocido un hijo
Ni he emprendido caminatas en paises desconocidos
Ni conozco los siete velos del mar
(Ni la canción del marino)
Si la muerte vieniera
Diga por favor que estoy enterado
Que me haga una espera
Que no le he dado a mi novia ni un beso de despedida
Que no he repartido mi mano con las de la familia
Ni he desempolvado los libros
Ni he silvado la canción preferida
Ni me he reconciliado con los enemigos
(Digale que no he probado el suicidio,
Ni he visto libre a mi gente)
Dígale, si quiere, que vuelva mañana
Que no es que le tema pero, ni siquiera...
Dígale, si quiere, que vuelva mañana
Que no es que le tema pero, ni siquiera...
Dígale, si quiere, que vuelva mañana
Que no es que le tema pero, ni siquiera...
Dígale, si quiere, que vuelva mañana
Que no es que le tema pero, ni siquiera...
He empezado a andar el camino.
Haga el favor
De decirle que vuelva mañana
Que todavía no han cancelado mis deudas
Ni he terminado un poema
Ni he ordenado mi ropa para el viaje
Ni he llevado a su destino el encargo ajeno
Ni he echado llave en mis gavetas.
Ni he dicho lo que debía decir a los amigos
Ni he sentido el olor de la rosa
Que no ha nacido
Ni he desenterrado mis raíces
Ni he escrito una carta pendiente
Que ni siquiera me he lavado las manos
Ni he conocido un hijo
Ni he emprendido caminatas en paises desconocidos
Ni conozco los siete velos del mar
(Ni la canción del marino)
Si la muerte vieniera
Diga por favor que estoy enterado
Que me haga una espera
Que no le he dado a mi novia ni un beso de despedida
Que no he repartido mi mano con las de la familia
Ni he desempolvado los libros
Ni he silvado la canción preferida
Ni me he reconciliado con los enemigos
(Digale que no he probado el suicidio,
Ni he visto libre a mi gente)
Dígale, si quiere, que vuelva mañana
Que no es que le tema pero, ni siquiera...
Dígale, si quiere, que vuelva mañana
Que no es que le tema pero, ni siquiera...
Dígale, si quiere, que vuelva mañana
Que no es que le tema pero, ni siquiera...
Dígale, si quiere, que vuelva mañana
Que no es que le tema pero, ni siquiera...
He empezado a andar el camino.
Lyrics submitted by stentorian
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