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"
when your heart breaks deep and you're feeling like there's no place to go
and you're losing sleep over things that you don't even know
i gotta tell you buddy that maybe you should just let her go
'cause you're feeling cruddy like a naked guy walking in the snow
when your heart breaks deep 'cause you lost all your faith and your trust
yeah, she was cleaning the sheets and she's telling you the dog just threw up
and she told you she loves you, she's with someone else just the night, the night before
and you're feeling like a fool, and you just can't take it anymore
she was not being truthful
no, she's not being kind
she's not being truthful, Larry
She's all full of lying
and your heart broke deep, now you're feeling like there's no place to go
and the coldest city in the world is san francisco
when your heart breaks deep, and the butterflies are bleeding in your guts
and you say "hit me, dealer" and the card that you get makes you bust
you know it's not so funny when you can't even laugh at some stupid little joke
and your eggs are runny 'cause somebody came and broke up all the yolk
she was not being truthful
no, she's not being kind
she's not being truthful, Larry
She's all full of lying
and your heart broke deep, now you're feeling like there's no place to go
yeah, the heart broke deep, and you're feeling like there's nowhere to go
yeah, the heart broke deep, and you're feeling like there's nowhere to go
and the coldest city in the world is san francisco
and you're losing sleep over things that you don't even know
i gotta tell you buddy that maybe you should just let her go
'cause you're feeling cruddy like a naked guy walking in the snow
when your heart breaks deep 'cause you lost all your faith and your trust
yeah, she was cleaning the sheets and she's telling you the dog just threw up
and she told you she loves you, she's with someone else just the night, the night before
and you're feeling like a fool, and you just can't take it anymore
she was not being truthful
no, she's not being kind
she's not being truthful, Larry
She's all full of lying
and your heart broke deep, now you're feeling like there's no place to go
and the coldest city in the world is san francisco
when your heart breaks deep, and the butterflies are bleeding in your guts
and you say "hit me, dealer" and the card that you get makes you bust
you know it's not so funny when you can't even laugh at some stupid little joke
and your eggs are runny 'cause somebody came and broke up all the yolk
she was not being truthful
no, she's not being kind
she's not being truthful, Larry
She's all full of lying
and your heart broke deep, now you're feeling like there's no place to go
yeah, the heart broke deep, and you're feeling like there's nowhere to go
yeah, the heart broke deep, and you're feeling like there's nowhere to go
and the coldest city in the world is san francisco
Lyrics submitted by solvent_d
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