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"
What are they gonna say
When you just move along?
We'll get you out of here
Just be strong
I thought I saw you today
I couldn't be wrong
You were caught between the lines
And you couldn't get out
It's been a few years since you left home
Do you miss your residence?
Just keep on trying and you'll get out soon
You'll get out soon
I think you're doing much better
But you say, "I fold"
You think you're oh so clever
But you say, "I fold"
You say, "I fold"
Give up and give up
And move on and move on
With the rest, with the rest of your lonely life
Have you selled yourself?
It's such a shame
The way they use you up
Destroy your name
We'll get you out of here
Just be strong
Gonna bend the life you can't get out
I think you're doing much better
But you say, "I fold"
You think you're oh so clever
But you say, "I fold"
You say, "I fold"
Give up and give up
And move on and move on
With the rest, with the rest of your lonely life
I think I'm doing much better
But you say, "I fold"
You think you're oh so clever
But you say, "I fold"
(Give up and give up and give up and give up)
You say, "I fold"
(And move on and move on)
You say, "I fold"
(With the rest, with the rest)
You say, "I fold"
When you just move along?
We'll get you out of here
Just be strong
I thought I saw you today
I couldn't be wrong
You were caught between the lines
And you couldn't get out
It's been a few years since you left home
Do you miss your residence?
Just keep on trying and you'll get out soon
You'll get out soon
I think you're doing much better
But you say, "I fold"
You think you're oh so clever
But you say, "I fold"
You say, "I fold"
Give up and give up
And move on and move on
With the rest, with the rest of your lonely life
Have you selled yourself?
It's such a shame
The way they use you up
Destroy your name
We'll get you out of here
Just be strong
Gonna bend the life you can't get out
I think you're doing much better
But you say, "I fold"
You think you're oh so clever
But you say, "I fold"
You say, "I fold"
Give up and give up
And move on and move on
With the rest, with the rest of your lonely life
I think I'm doing much better
But you say, "I fold"
You think you're oh so clever
But you say, "I fold"
(Give up and give up and give up and give up)
You say, "I fold"
(And move on and move on)
You say, "I fold"
(With the rest, with the rest)
You say, "I fold"
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
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