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"
Another night out, another girl on the scene
Tart with a heart, you know the kind I mean
Tell me why it is they all study art
Underage and overdressed, I can't tell them apart
This one over here's got a little something else
All of daddy's money and she fancies herself
Says she's 21, she's probably 16
Got a dirty mouth, at least her teeth are clean
Jack from Tennessee
Makes me think
That every girl I see
Is my cup of tea
Fit for a fortnight
She ain't no good for me
Fit for a fortnight
It's such a shallow scene
Well, I've got the same phrase for any of the boys
Who line up girls like nothing for the choice
Come to the club girl, I'll get you on the list
I'll get myself a new one when I get you on the piss
Think we stand out from the clique
Think we're oh so unique
But the clothes that we wear
Are getting mirrored everywhere
In the morning light
She will realize
That I'm not the kind of boy
That she needs
Fit for a fortnight
That's what she said to me
Fit for a fortnight
It's such a shallow scene
Turns out that I'm not to her taste
Her fickleness was thrown back in my face
14 days since we first met
She's stopped replying to my texts, only fools fall in love
She served up my heart up on a plate
She said I passed myself by day
Guess it serves me right
For all my reckless nights
Calm has come to take me
Out on a date
Fit for a fortnight
That's what she said to me
Fit for a fortnight
It's such a shallow scene
Turns out that I'm not to her taste
Her fickleness was thrown back in my face
Fit for a fortnight
Fit for a fortnight
Fit for a fortnight
Fit for a fortnight
Fit for a fortnight
Tart with a heart, you know the kind I mean
Tell me why it is they all study art
Underage and overdressed, I can't tell them apart
This one over here's got a little something else
All of daddy's money and she fancies herself
Says she's 21, she's probably 16
Got a dirty mouth, at least her teeth are clean
Jack from Tennessee
Makes me think
That every girl I see
Is my cup of tea
Fit for a fortnight
She ain't no good for me
Fit for a fortnight
It's such a shallow scene
Well, I've got the same phrase for any of the boys
Who line up girls like nothing for the choice
Come to the club girl, I'll get you on the list
I'll get myself a new one when I get you on the piss
Think we stand out from the clique
Think we're oh so unique
But the clothes that we wear
Are getting mirrored everywhere
In the morning light
She will realize
That I'm not the kind of boy
That she needs
Fit for a fortnight
That's what she said to me
Fit for a fortnight
It's such a shallow scene
Turns out that I'm not to her taste
Her fickleness was thrown back in my face
14 days since we first met
She's stopped replying to my texts, only fools fall in love
She served up my heart up on a plate
She said I passed myself by day
Guess it serves me right
For all my reckless nights
Calm has come to take me
Out on a date
Fit for a fortnight
That's what she said to me
Fit for a fortnight
It's such a shallow scene
Turns out that I'm not to her taste
Her fickleness was thrown back in my face
Fit for a fortnight
Fit for a fortnight
Fit for a fortnight
Fit for a fortnight
Fit for a fortnight
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these lyrics are horrible.
"Well I've got the same phrase For any of the boys Who line up girls Like nothing for the choice"
should be
"Well i can't sing praise For any of the boys Who line up girls Like multiple-choice"
and "She served up my heart on a plate She said I passed myself by day"
should be
"She served up my heart on a plate She said I passed my sell by date"