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"
She's a liar,
But she's always right
And every night, she
Whispers something slowly
But I drift off
Sometimes I know you're awake
As you lay there right beside me
And lay there right beside me
Thinking maybe
You should be somewhere else...
But nowhere in this world
No, nowhere in this world
Will they offer
This at a second glance?
But this won't stand a chance
If you can't just open up
And if it's me, well...
Well, I guess I could change
We said we always could make
The best of anything
Well, here we are now
And things are not what they seem
But every night, I still dream of you
And I can't shake that, no...
Knock, knock, knock on the door
Is it someone you know?
Has he been here before?
No, it doesn't seem to matter cause you always seem to shatter
The glass that holds our
Innocence, so young...
If there's a chance now
That we could both find a way
Sometimes I think we're afraid
Of what's around the corner
Chasing all these
Empty feelings away
Will only make it better, and only make it better
Well, it happened
And there is so much to change
I guess that we're both to blame
For all these conversations
That have made us
Start to throw this away
Again, I know we can change
If we don't disappear
Knock, knock, knock on the door
Is it someone you know?
Has he been here before?
No, it doesn't seem to matter cause you always seem to shatter
The glass that holds our
Innocence, so young...
Knock, knock, knock on the door
Is it someone you know?
Has he been here before?
No, it doesn't seem to matter cause you always seem to shatter
The glass that holds our
Innocence, so young...
So young...
Knock, knock, knock on the door
Is it someone you know?
Has he been here before?
No, it doesn't seem to matter cause you always seem to shatter
The glass that holds our
Innocence, so young...
Knock, knock, knock on the door
Is it someone you know?
Has he been here before?
No, it doesn't seem to matter cause you always seem to shatter
The glass that holds our
Innocence, so young...
But she's always right
And every night, she
Whispers something slowly
But I drift off
Sometimes I know you're awake
As you lay there right beside me
And lay there right beside me
Thinking maybe
You should be somewhere else...
But nowhere in this world
No, nowhere in this world
Will they offer
This at a second glance?
But this won't stand a chance
If you can't just open up
And if it's me, well...
Well, I guess I could change
We said we always could make
The best of anything
Well, here we are now
And things are not what they seem
But every night, I still dream of you
And I can't shake that, no...
Knock, knock, knock on the door
Is it someone you know?
Has he been here before?
No, it doesn't seem to matter cause you always seem to shatter
The glass that holds our
Innocence, so young...
If there's a chance now
That we could both find a way
Sometimes I think we're afraid
Of what's around the corner
Chasing all these
Empty feelings away
Will only make it better, and only make it better
Well, it happened
And there is so much to change
I guess that we're both to blame
For all these conversations
That have made us
Start to throw this away
Again, I know we can change
If we don't disappear
Knock, knock, knock on the door
Is it someone you know?
Has he been here before?
No, it doesn't seem to matter cause you always seem to shatter
The glass that holds our
Innocence, so young...
Knock, knock, knock on the door
Is it someone you know?
Has he been here before?
No, it doesn't seem to matter cause you always seem to shatter
The glass that holds our
Innocence, so young...
So young...
Knock, knock, knock on the door
Is it someone you know?
Has he been here before?
No, it doesn't seem to matter cause you always seem to shatter
The glass that holds our
Innocence, so young...
Knock, knock, knock on the door
Is it someone you know?
Has he been here before?
No, it doesn't seem to matter cause you always seem to shatter
The glass that holds our
Innocence, so young...
Lyrics submitted by Grayfire
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