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"
gabriel this is the last
chapter of our correspondence
i hope that after time goes past
you can remember me with fondness
i think as i am thinking now
of all the pages that have seen us
laid out unending in between us
and we can walk them like the ground
i know my fate i do not mean to fight
but you tread softly on the ground tonight
tread softly on the words you used to write
oh gabriel i see you there
that day i met you in the orchard
and i was younger then i wore my hair
in bows across my forehead
soon they will twist it at the shoulder
and fix the clasp against my neck
and i do not think you would know her
if you could see what they reflect
i've seen my future in an evening dress
all wrapped in tapestry and fur i guess
remember me the way you knew me best
oh gabriel i have kept
everything you sent me
everything you put to paper but
it's better to forget
than fill your head with memories
think that you will thank me later
oh gabriel i wish that i
could pick you up and fold you like a ribbon
i'd keep you always and in secret
in the pockets of my clothes
but this is how i live my life
with all the parts that i was given
this is the heart that i was given
and what you're given can be sold
i see my future in an evening dress
and i've been walking to her step to step
remember the way you knew me best
i know my fate i do not mean to fight
but you tread softly on the ground tonight
tread softly on the words you used to write
i know my fate i do not mean to fight
but you tread softly on the ground tonight
tread softly on the words you used to write
chapter of our correspondence
i hope that after time goes past
you can remember me with fondness
i think as i am thinking now
of all the pages that have seen us
laid out unending in between us
and we can walk them like the ground
i know my fate i do not mean to fight
but you tread softly on the ground tonight
tread softly on the words you used to write
oh gabriel i see you there
that day i met you in the orchard
and i was younger then i wore my hair
in bows across my forehead
soon they will twist it at the shoulder
and fix the clasp against my neck
and i do not think you would know her
if you could see what they reflect
i've seen my future in an evening dress
all wrapped in tapestry and fur i guess
remember me the way you knew me best
oh gabriel i have kept
everything you sent me
everything you put to paper but
it's better to forget
than fill your head with memories
think that you will thank me later
oh gabriel i wish that i
could pick you up and fold you like a ribbon
i'd keep you always and in secret
in the pockets of my clothes
but this is how i live my life
with all the parts that i was given
this is the heart that i was given
and what you're given can be sold
i see my future in an evening dress
and i've been walking to her step to step
remember the way you knew me best
i know my fate i do not mean to fight
but you tread softly on the ground tonight
tread softly on the words you used to write
i know my fate i do not mean to fight
but you tread softly on the ground tonight
tread softly on the words you used to write
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I really do wish that whoever posted this had had the decency to capitalise. It really bugs me to see such a lovely song reduced to lower case. Also, I think that the first line of the second verse is "AND think as I am thinking now."
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