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"
The stray, it came, followed us home
It brushed around our four legs
And looked past them to the door
We just laughed and shook our heads
And secretly hoped it'd come back
The next day...
It didn't
You even went back to the place
We first saw it, just in case
While I was glad to stay at home
Searching for money in old birthday cards
John Milton himself
Would've felt these things, too
I read somewhere
Even blindness couldn't keep him down
I can see him now fumbling through the dark
To find a pen and anything for paper
Mark the page
Take the car
Pass the building
And wonder where you are
And which storey?
You were in my dream again
I would tell you, but it don't mean anything
It's just my old dream
There's no yellow fields
Of sunflower farms
If I have to show you
I can do it with my arms
No bunches of balloons
Or mariachi bands
If you need to see
Then I can show you with my hands
Tie the shoe
Take the car
Unfold the road
Because it goes to where you are
And your story
You were in my dream again
I could tell you, but it don't mean anything
It's just my old dream...
It brushed around our four legs
And looked past them to the door
We just laughed and shook our heads
And secretly hoped it'd come back
The next day...
It didn't
You even went back to the place
We first saw it, just in case
While I was glad to stay at home
Searching for money in old birthday cards
John Milton himself
Would've felt these things, too
I read somewhere
Even blindness couldn't keep him down
I can see him now fumbling through the dark
To find a pen and anything for paper
Mark the page
Take the car
Pass the building
And wonder where you are
And which storey?
You were in my dream again
I would tell you, but it don't mean anything
It's just my old dream
There's no yellow fields
Of sunflower farms
If I have to show you
I can do it with my arms
No bunches of balloons
Or mariachi bands
If you need to see
Then I can show you with my hands
Tie the shoe
Take the car
Unfold the road
Because it goes to where you are
And your story
You were in my dream again
I could tell you, but it don't mean anything
It's just my old dream...
Lyrics submitted by delial
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