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"
soul mates doesnt cut it
we go much farther than that
for how can i know everytime
i stare into your mind
that youre reaching for some body else
but i know that it is i
and i feel like im losing control of my best friend
but we're getting by
pick a number 1 -10
tell you all the reasons again
why nothing is as it all seems
and i will see you in my dreams
all you really have to do
is pick a 1 an 8 or 2
and my love will never run thin
so pick a number one through ten
i heard my name today
even though you werent there to say it
why do i bother explaining my love
you know it better than i do
gazing hazzy holding hands
ive played to many songs
in way to many bands
so lets end all the questions
and this will be a song to end them all
anon anon cuz now youre gone
i will always be in love with you
you will always be
i wait til dawn anon anon
we go much farther than that
for how can i know everytime
i stare into your mind
that youre reaching for some body else
but i know that it is i
and i feel like im losing control of my best friend
but we're getting by
pick a number 1 -10
tell you all the reasons again
why nothing is as it all seems
and i will see you in my dreams
all you really have to do
is pick a 1 an 8 or 2
and my love will never run thin
so pick a number one through ten
i heard my name today
even though you werent there to say it
why do i bother explaining my love
you know it better than i do
gazing hazzy holding hands
ive played to many songs
in way to many bands
so lets end all the questions
and this will be a song to end them all
anon anon cuz now youre gone
i will always be in love with you
you will always be
i wait til dawn anon anon
Lyrics submitted by xjaredstonex
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