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"
All non-believers, stand aside in fear
A new day is marching through the door
How could you ever think you'd make it here?
Did it bleed? Was it sore?
Through the struggles you've endured
You've come so far from innocence
Provided all the consequence
Only what does it matter now?
'Cause you're going home, you're running free
As only you would be, if you never owed them anything
And now, you've found your way out
In the trust you've seen your path on home, oh, whoa
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Spend your time well before you go
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Here in hell
Your living ends before the engineer
What was your motive in this fight?
(Did they play you for the weaker of them?)
How could you ever think you'd make it here?
Was it greed that pushed your heart
Through the struggles you've endured?
You've come so far from innocence
Provided all the consequence
Only what does it matter now?
'Cause you're going home, you're running free
As only you would be, if you never owed them anything
And now you've found your way out
In the trust you've seen your path on home, oh
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Spend your time well before you go
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Here in hell
(There's a hell in all of us)
Spend your time well before you go
(There's a hell in all of us)
In a loss that's all your own
(There's a hell in all of us)
There are no secrets you can hide
From yourself, in your mind, leave the worst of all behind
'Cause you're going home, you're running free
As only you would be, if you never owed them anything
And now you've found your way out
In the trust you've seen your path on home
'Cause you're going home, you're running free
As only you would be, if you never owed them anything
And now you've found your way out
In the trust you've seen your path on home, oh, whoa
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Spend your time well before you go
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Here in hell
A new day is marching through the door
How could you ever think you'd make it here?
Did it bleed? Was it sore?
Through the struggles you've endured
You've come so far from innocence
Provided all the consequence
Only what does it matter now?
'Cause you're going home, you're running free
As only you would be, if you never owed them anything
And now, you've found your way out
In the trust you've seen your path on home, oh, whoa
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Spend your time well before you go
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Here in hell
Your living ends before the engineer
What was your motive in this fight?
(Did they play you for the weaker of them?)
How could you ever think you'd make it here?
Was it greed that pushed your heart
Through the struggles you've endured?
You've come so far from innocence
Provided all the consequence
Only what does it matter now?
'Cause you're going home, you're running free
As only you would be, if you never owed them anything
And now you've found your way out
In the trust you've seen your path on home, oh
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Spend your time well before you go
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Here in hell
(There's a hell in all of us)
Spend your time well before you go
(There's a hell in all of us)
In a loss that's all your own
(There's a hell in all of us)
There are no secrets you can hide
From yourself, in your mind, leave the worst of all behind
'Cause you're going home, you're running free
As only you would be, if you never owed them anything
And now you've found your way out
In the trust you've seen your path on home
'Cause you're going home, you're running free
As only you would be, if you never owed them anything
And now you've found your way out
In the trust you've seen your path on home, oh, whoa
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Spend your time well before you go
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
Here in hell
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2 years ago i moved waaaaay away from home to experience something new and stuff....went thru a butt-load of crap with the culture shocks and all the random problems that come with being out on your own for the first time...once i mastered the whole being away thing, every trip i made to visit my folks "back home", this has been my theme song, and now that i'm considereding moving back, this song doesn't cease to remain in my life's soundtrack...its like C&C are telling me "you've endured a lot of struggles, you've seen where to put and where not to put your trust, you've gone thru this this and that, but nothing matters now, cause your going home!!!" ...as time passes, the more determined i am to go back home and do things with my life i never did before, and this is where they're telling me: "spend your time well here in hell before you go and leave the worse of all behind!!!" goodbye Kansas!!!!
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