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"
You were like sugar;
so sweet and childish.
I thought you'd never
be less than perfect.
Don't waste away.
My memories
will stay the same, forever.
We'll float away
with ____
these sunny days, forever.
Like that Summer was gone;
the clouds rolled over.
How sweet, tastes just like salt
as boys got older
Don't waste away
My memories
will stay the same, forever
We'll float away
with ____
these sunny days, forever
and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever and ever
Now we're going to have a party.
All my old friends, come and see me.
Take a seat and have a song of love.
How you changed, and what went wrong
for a boy and a girl to get so old so young.
All that it was, that you were -
I will always have a
part of my heart in the past,
there is never sweetness
quite like there was _____, and your _____
Faces you made, that Andrew hated, but I loved --
They were cute, and so sweet, jellybeans
jellybabies that you bought from the shop, by the tennis courts on the day you said I smiled an awful lot.
I know I did, couldn't help it,
I was so happy then.
You're my friend, it makes sense.
Yeah, it makes sense.
Don't waste away
My memories
will stay the same, forever
We'll float away
with ____
these sunny days, forever
and ever, and ever, and ever.
so sweet and childish.
I thought you'd never
be less than perfect.
Don't waste away.
My memories
will stay the same, forever.
We'll float away
with ____
these sunny days, forever.
Like that Summer was gone;
the clouds rolled over.
How sweet, tastes just like salt
as boys got older
Don't waste away
My memories
will stay the same, forever
We'll float away
with ____
these sunny days, forever
and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever and ever
Now we're going to have a party.
All my old friends, come and see me.
Take a seat and have a song of love.
How you changed, and what went wrong
for a boy and a girl to get so old so young.
All that it was, that you were -
I will always have a
part of my heart in the past,
there is never sweetness
quite like there was _____, and your _____
Faces you made, that Andrew hated, but I loved --
They were cute, and so sweet, jellybeans
jellybabies that you bought from the shop, by the tennis courts on the day you said I smiled an awful lot.
I know I did, couldn't help it,
I was so happy then.
You're my friend, it makes sense.
Yeah, it makes sense.
Don't waste away
My memories
will stay the same, forever
We'll float away
with ____
these sunny days, forever
and ever, and ever, and ever.
Lyrics submitted by Jashmine
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