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"
Say what you say I just sail away,
She can't stand me but I miss her face
I feel like drowning but the tides too low
And now I'm waiting for the undertow
So I, stand tall it gets a little better,
I see the wall we can break down together,
Stand strong, it's gets a little better now,
(We can break it down, yes we can break it)
So I, stand tall it gets a little better,
I see the wall we can break down together,
Stand strong, it's gets a little better now,
(We can break it down, yes we can break it)
Well I can only take so much,
Depression ain't gonna pressure us,
Oh, they came to watch us fall,
Oh yes, they came to watch us fall,
We will rise up against them all
So I, stand tall it gets a little better,
I see the wall we can break down together,
Stand strong, it's gets a little better now,
(We can break it down, yes we can break it)
Pardon me if I'm too loud
Sing my song gonna sing it proud
No ones gonna bring me down
Gonna stand up strong gonna hold my ground
Tell me what are we fighting for
Change to do we done before
Tell me what are we fighting for (yeah yeah yeah)
Pardon me if I'm too loud
Sing my song gonna sing it proud
No ones gonna bring me down
Gonna stand up strong gonna hold my ground
Tell me what are we fighting for
Change to do we done before
Tell me what are we fighting for (yeah yeah yeah)
So I, stand tall it gets a little better,
I see the wall we can break down together,
Stand strong, it's gets a little better now,
(We can break it down, yes we can break it)
So I, stand tall it gets a little better,
I see the wall we can break down together,
Stand strong, it's gets a little better now,
(We can break it down, yes we can break it)
She can't stand me but I miss her face
I feel like drowning but the tides too low
And now I'm waiting for the undertow
So I, stand tall it gets a little better,
I see the wall we can break down together,
Stand strong, it's gets a little better now,
(We can break it down, yes we can break it)
So I, stand tall it gets a little better,
I see the wall we can break down together,
Stand strong, it's gets a little better now,
(We can break it down, yes we can break it)
Well I can only take so much,
Depression ain't gonna pressure us,
Oh, they came to watch us fall,
Oh yes, they came to watch us fall,
We will rise up against them all
So I, stand tall it gets a little better,
I see the wall we can break down together,
Stand strong, it's gets a little better now,
(We can break it down, yes we can break it)
Pardon me if I'm too loud
Sing my song gonna sing it proud
No ones gonna bring me down
Gonna stand up strong gonna hold my ground
Tell me what are we fighting for
Change to do we done before
Tell me what are we fighting for (yeah yeah yeah)
Pardon me if I'm too loud
Sing my song gonna sing it proud
No ones gonna bring me down
Gonna stand up strong gonna hold my ground
Tell me what are we fighting for
Change to do we done before
Tell me what are we fighting for (yeah yeah yeah)
So I, stand tall it gets a little better,
I see the wall we can break down together,
Stand strong, it's gets a little better now,
(We can break it down, yes we can break it)
So I, stand tall it gets a little better,
I see the wall we can break down together,
Stand strong, it's gets a little better now,
(We can break it down, yes we can break it)
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This Part is suppose to say "Pardon me if Im to loud gonna sing my song gonna sing it proud"
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