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"
hitotsu-to se
hitori nagare=te kono yo-no hate-no hate
futatsu-to se
fum=eba samishii higure-no kageboushi
mittsu-to se
mir=eba miru hodo tsumaran ore daga
yottsu-to se
yos=eba ii noni matazoro shasharideru
akirame=te nandomo akirame=te
akirame+kire=nu kyou-ni kaze-ga fuku
itsutsu-to se
itsumo-nagara-no sae=nai ichi-nichi
muttsu-to se
munashi munashi-to tameiki kumo-ni naru
nageda=shite nandomo nageda=shite
nageda=shi+kire=nu kyou-ni ame-ga furu
nanatsu-to se
nak=eba naku hodo namida-wa kare=te yuku
yattsu-to se
yare yare shou-ga nee-to hanauta machi-no kado
kokonotsu-to se
koko-ga kokora-ga sekai-no domannaka
too de tootoo baka-warai
hora kori=zuni asu-mo yuk=e
ameagari sokora-ni mizutamari
karu=ku tobikosu gogo niji-o miru
English translation:
First
I float myself to the very end of the world
Second
If I step, it’s on a lonely shadow of sunset
Third
The more I look, I look more boring; however
Fourth
I poke my nose into their business again even though better not to
I give up and give up again and again
Winds blow to today, which I cannot give up
Fifth
A dull day like any other days
Sixth
I become a sigh-crowd feeling empty and empty
Throw away and throw away again and again
Rains fall into today, which I cannot throw away
Seventh
More cry, more tears get dried out
Eighth
I am at the corner of the town humming that I cannot help it
Ninth
Here, around here is the center of the world
Tenth
Finally a horselaugh
Go again for tomorrow without being disgusted
The rains stopped and left a pool around there
I jump over it easily and see a rainbow in the afternoon
hitori nagare=te kono yo-no hate-no hate
futatsu-to se
fum=eba samishii higure-no kageboushi
mittsu-to se
mir=eba miru hodo tsumaran ore daga
yottsu-to se
yos=eba ii noni matazoro shasharideru
akirame=te nandomo akirame=te
akirame+kire=nu kyou-ni kaze-ga fuku
itsutsu-to se
itsumo-nagara-no sae=nai ichi-nichi
muttsu-to se
munashi munashi-to tameiki kumo-ni naru
nageda=shite nandomo nageda=shite
nageda=shi+kire=nu kyou-ni ame-ga furu
nanatsu-to se
nak=eba naku hodo namida-wa kare=te yuku
yattsu-to se
yare yare shou-ga nee-to hanauta machi-no kado
kokonotsu-to se
koko-ga kokora-ga sekai-no domannaka
too de tootoo baka-warai
hora kori=zuni asu-mo yuk=e
ameagari sokora-ni mizutamari
karu=ku tobikosu gogo niji-o miru
English translation:
First
I float myself to the very end of the world
Second
If I step, it’s on a lonely shadow of sunset
Third
The more I look, I look more boring; however
Fourth
I poke my nose into their business again even though better not to
I give up and give up again and again
Winds blow to today, which I cannot give up
Fifth
A dull day like any other days
Sixth
I become a sigh-crowd feeling empty and empty
Throw away and throw away again and again
Rains fall into today, which I cannot throw away
Seventh
More cry, more tears get dried out
Eighth
I am at the corner of the town humming that I cannot help it
Ninth
Here, around here is the center of the world
Tenth
Finally a horselaugh
Go again for tomorrow without being disgusted
The rains stopped and left a pool around there
I jump over it easily and see a rainbow in the afternoon
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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