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"
Left your t-shirt in my room, still smells of you
And the picture you hung on the door lay smashed
Picture perfect
Explains now, clearly nothing left but a memory
We only made out, you never kissed me
That's how I learned to hold back all feeling
Wait, please don't go
I won't stay
All these words on replay
I'm okay, It's alright
Good to know that your fine
Pretending everything is right
To make it better
I'll hide my make up smeared eyes
To show that I tried
Some how you have managed to get under my skin
More than anyone ever did
And if every hole makes a scar
And every scar marks its place
Then I will never live freely without your trace
And it'll never be fair
I wrote my songs for you and you never even cared
So I'll forget you, I'll wash your t-shirt
Kill the pillow and cut you out of pictures
Wait, please don't go
I won't stay
All these words on replay
I'm okay, It's alright
Good to know that your fine
Pretending everything is right
To make it better
I'll hide my make up smeared eyes
This drama sat shot gun
My eyes rained like autumn
Only the glove box knows
How the story goes
Now that this bandage is broken and the cuts left in open
I'll tell you just one thing, this wasn't worth the sting
Left your t-shirt in my room, still smells of you
And the picture you hung on the door lay smashed
Picture perfect
And the picture you hung on the door lay smashed
Picture perfect
Explains now, clearly nothing left but a memory
We only made out, you never kissed me
That's how I learned to hold back all feeling
Wait, please don't go
I won't stay
All these words on replay
I'm okay, It's alright
Good to know that your fine
Pretending everything is right
To make it better
I'll hide my make up smeared eyes
To show that I tried
Some how you have managed to get under my skin
More than anyone ever did
And if every hole makes a scar
And every scar marks its place
Then I will never live freely without your trace
And it'll never be fair
I wrote my songs for you and you never even cared
So I'll forget you, I'll wash your t-shirt
Kill the pillow and cut you out of pictures
Wait, please don't go
I won't stay
All these words on replay
I'm okay, It's alright
Good to know that your fine
Pretending everything is right
To make it better
I'll hide my make up smeared eyes
This drama sat shot gun
My eyes rained like autumn
Only the glove box knows
How the story goes
Now that this bandage is broken and the cuts left in open
I'll tell you just one thing, this wasn't worth the sting
Left your t-shirt in my room, still smells of you
And the picture you hung on the door lay smashed
Picture perfect
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