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"
California girls with your collagen smiles
Nip that tuck and get buck wild
instead of purse parties with louis vuitton
we'll visit doctors and get our plastic surgery on x2
American Idol? how bout an American God
Buy this track and put it in your iPod
Fake I.D, sneak into the club
they'll grant you three wishes if you give em a rub
You wear laura mercier, MAC, Smashbox and some Mary Kay
Nars, Dior, Bare Essentuals mm girl you gotta be special
Open up your Kate Spade like its halloween
Daddy throws pills in like it's candy and your sixteen
Show me your ribcage, prove your in
Cause friends are addicted and glamours thin x 2
New york city, san francisco
lets drive to L.A. for the disco x 4
Show me your ribcage x 2
California boys with straight leg jeans
go on myspace profiles, fulfill their dreams
instead of raising trucks like typical men
they're with fakebestfriend playing Barbie and Ken x 2
California girls with your collagen smiles
Nip that tuck and get buck wild
instead of purse parties with louis vuitton
we'll visit doctors and get our plastic surgery on x2
American Idol? how bout an American God
Buy this track and put it in your iPod
Fake I.D, sneak into the club
they'll grant you three wishes if you give em a rub
You wear laura mercier, MAC, Smashbox and some Mary Kay
Nars, Dior, Bare Essentuals mm girl you gotta be special
Open up your Kate Spade like its halloween
Daddy throws pills in like it's candy and your sixteen
Show me your ribcage, prove your in
Cause friends are addicted and glamour is thin x 2
New york city, san francisco
lets drive to L.A. for the disco x 4
Show me your ribcage x 2
California boys with straight leg jeans
go on myspace profiles, fulfill their dreams
instead of raising trucks like typical men
they're with fakebestfriend playing Barbie and Ken x 2
Nip that tuck and get buck wild
instead of purse parties with louis vuitton
we'll visit doctors and get our plastic surgery on x2
American Idol? how bout an American God
Buy this track and put it in your iPod
Fake I.D, sneak into the club
they'll grant you three wishes if you give em a rub
You wear laura mercier, MAC, Smashbox and some Mary Kay
Nars, Dior, Bare Essentuals mm girl you gotta be special
Open up your Kate Spade like its halloween
Daddy throws pills in like it's candy and your sixteen
Show me your ribcage, prove your in
Cause friends are addicted and glamours thin x 2
New york city, san francisco
lets drive to L.A. for the disco x 4
Show me your ribcage x 2
California boys with straight leg jeans
go on myspace profiles, fulfill their dreams
instead of raising trucks like typical men
they're with fakebestfriend playing Barbie and Ken x 2
California girls with your collagen smiles
Nip that tuck and get buck wild
instead of purse parties with louis vuitton
we'll visit doctors and get our plastic surgery on x2
American Idol? how bout an American God
Buy this track and put it in your iPod
Fake I.D, sneak into the club
they'll grant you three wishes if you give em a rub
You wear laura mercier, MAC, Smashbox and some Mary Kay
Nars, Dior, Bare Essentuals mm girl you gotta be special
Open up your Kate Spade like its halloween
Daddy throws pills in like it's candy and your sixteen
Show me your ribcage, prove your in
Cause friends are addicted and glamour is thin x 2
New york city, san francisco
lets drive to L.A. for the disco x 4
Show me your ribcage x 2
California boys with straight leg jeans
go on myspace profiles, fulfill their dreams
instead of raising trucks like typical men
they're with fakebestfriend playing Barbie and Ken x 2
Lyrics submitted by plasticskies
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