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 I look back, that's when I see everything was wrong
And you looked sad, that's when I said I'd write you a song
Everybody's got their reasons
Everybody's got their ghosts to fear
When I look back all I see is I've done something wrong (Wrong!)
Wrong! (Wrong!)
All I see is I've done something wrong (Wrong!)
Wrong! (Wrong!)
All I see is I've done something wrong (Wrong!)
Oh! My Dear! My tis of thee!
What a tangled web we weave!
Everyone is the one until the one falls down
Then we're all just "Please! Please! Please!"
The painted rust will only
fool the fools for just so long
Eventually, that's when they'll see everything was wrong (Wrong!)
Wrong! (Wrong!)
That's when they'll see everything was wrong
Wrong! (Wrong!)
That's when they'll see everything was wrong
So here's to the boys who fight all the wars you will never fight for yourself
And you can ignore who-ever you want to, but in the end...
Oh! The Shame! Humility!
What a wicked gang are we!
Like a liar looking down on a thief looking down on a killer looking down on a creep
Oh!
This sinking ship will only hold its course for just so long
Eventually, that's when they'll see everything was wrong (Wrong!)
Wrong! (Wrong!)
That's when they'll see everything was wrong
Wrong! (Wrong!)
That's when they'll see everything was wrong
And you looked sad, that's when I said I'd write you a song
Everybody's got their reasons
Everybody's got their ghosts to fear
When I look back all I see is I've done something wrong (Wrong!)
Wrong! (Wrong!)
All I see is I've done something wrong (Wrong!)
Wrong! (Wrong!)
All I see is I've done something wrong (Wrong!)
Oh! My Dear! My tis of thee!
What a tangled web we weave!
Everyone is the one until the one falls down
Then we're all just "Please! Please! Please!"
The painted rust will only
fool the fools for just so long
Eventually, that's when they'll see everything was wrong (Wrong!)
Wrong! (Wrong!)
That's when they'll see everything was wrong
Wrong! (Wrong!)
That's when they'll see everything was wrong
So here's to the boys who fight all the wars you will never fight for yourself
And you can ignore who-ever you want to, but in the end...
Oh! The Shame! Humility!
What a wicked gang are we!
Like a liar looking down on a thief looking down on a killer looking down on a creep
Oh!
This sinking ship will only hold its course for just so long
Eventually, that's when they'll see everything was wrong (Wrong!)
Wrong! (Wrong!)
That's when they'll see everything was wrong
Wrong! (Wrong!)
That's when they'll see everything was wrong
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As opposed to the usual, "...blah, blah, blah, Screw Bush, blah, blah, blah" boring outcry, SM takes down the whole damned democracy with them.
"Ah! My Dear! My tis of thee!" is really the line that gives it away to me, with "tis of thee" alluding to "My country tis of thee" The song, I believe, is telling you that the war we're in right now is a catalyst to America's decline, hence the line: "Oh! This sinking ship will only hold its course for just so long Eventually, that's when they'll see everything is wrong"
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"Everyone is the one until the one falls down Then we're all just 'please please please'"
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Sorry, that was a mouthful, but there was more in those two lines than I thought. That's my two cents.