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"
Oh-oh
Oh-oh
Oh-oh
Oh-oh
She's a knock-out and she likes my favourite movies;
David Letterman and Chinese Delivery.
She loves Miller Light and watching Tyson fighting,
Hanging with my friends and football on a monday night.
But little did I know
She's morphing like a power ranger;
Really sweet but just don't ask her
What her favourite colour is if she knows you like brown.
She says her favourite band is Zeppelin;
Never heard "Stairway To Heaven".
Whatever she likes that day depends on who's around.
Even I've got standards, but I just don't understand her.
My soon to be history, never want to disagree girlfriend,
With absolutely no opinion
Oh-oh
Oh-oh
Seven weeks ago we caught U2 in the city;
She saw my t-shirt she said Vertigo's her favourite song.
I stood and watched her shaking;
She tried to start a mosh-pit;
She sang along all night - got every single lyric wrong.
So sorry Bono.
She's morphing like a power ranger;
Really sweet but just don't ask her
What her favourite colour is if she knows you like brown.
She says her favourite band is Zeppelin;
Never heard "Stairway To Heaven".
Whatever she likes that day depends on who's around.
Even I've got standards, but I just don't understand her.
And that's why she's my
My soon to be history, never want to disagree girlfriend,
With absolutely no opinion
I took her to Baskin Robbins for Cookies and cream and mint chocolate chip;
She tore through a double scoop and then she said she was lactose intolerant.
I like yo-yo's, so she likes yo-yo's.
Why can't she just be herself and not do everything in life to please everyone else
(to please everyone else).
She's morphing like a power ranger;
Really sweet but just don't ask her
What her favourite colour is if she knows you like brown.
She says her favourite band is Zeppelin;
Never heard "Stairway To Heaven".
Whatever she likes that day depends on who's around.
Even I've got standards, but I just don't understand her.
And that's why she's my
My soon to be history, never want to disagree girlfriend,
With absolutely no opinion
Oh-oh
Oh-oh
Oh-oh
Oh-oh
Oh-oh
She's a knock-out and she likes my favourite movies;
David Letterman and Chinese Delivery.
She loves Miller Light and watching Tyson fighting,
Hanging with my friends and football on a monday night.
But little did I know
She's morphing like a power ranger;
Really sweet but just don't ask her
What her favourite colour is if she knows you like brown.
She says her favourite band is Zeppelin;
Never heard "Stairway To Heaven".
Whatever she likes that day depends on who's around.
Even I've got standards, but I just don't understand her.
My soon to be history, never want to disagree girlfriend,
With absolutely no opinion
Oh-oh
Oh-oh
Seven weeks ago we caught U2 in the city;
She saw my t-shirt she said Vertigo's her favourite song.
I stood and watched her shaking;
She tried to start a mosh-pit;
She sang along all night - got every single lyric wrong.
So sorry Bono.
She's morphing like a power ranger;
Really sweet but just don't ask her
What her favourite colour is if she knows you like brown.
She says her favourite band is Zeppelin;
Never heard "Stairway To Heaven".
Whatever she likes that day depends on who's around.
Even I've got standards, but I just don't understand her.
And that's why she's my
My soon to be history, never want to disagree girlfriend,
With absolutely no opinion
I took her to Baskin Robbins for Cookies and cream and mint chocolate chip;
She tore through a double scoop and then she said she was lactose intolerant.
I like yo-yo's, so she likes yo-yo's.
Why can't she just be herself and not do everything in life to please everyone else
(to please everyone else).
She's morphing like a power ranger;
Really sweet but just don't ask her
What her favourite colour is if she knows you like brown.
She says her favourite band is Zeppelin;
Never heard "Stairway To Heaven".
Whatever she likes that day depends on who's around.
Even I've got standards, but I just don't understand her.
And that's why she's my
My soon to be history, never want to disagree girlfriend,
With absolutely no opinion
Oh-oh
Oh-oh
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