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"
I can't get them up
I can't get them up
I can't get them up At all
Hey ho let go
Good morning killer king you're a star
That's gorgeous hold it right where you are
The weathers kinda lousy today
So what oh what oh what'll we play'
Stratocaster strapped to your back
It's semi-automatic like dads
He taught you how to pause and reset
But that's about as far as you get
So what's the use of going outside'
It's so depressing when people die in real life
I'd rather pick up right where we left
Making out to faces of death
Making out to faces of death
And I could save you baby But it isn't worth my time
And I could make you chase me for a little price is right
It's a hit but are you actually sure'
The targets in the crowd are a blur
People screaming just like they should
But you don't even know if you're good
You don't even know if you're good
So tie them up and feed them the sand
Ha! nigga! try hard to tell us using your hands
A pictures worth a million words
And that way nobody gets hurt
And that way nobody gets hurt
And I could save you baby but it isn't worth my time
And I could make you chase me for a little price is right
Woo-ah-oo
Woo-ooh-ah-oo
Woo-ah 'ooh ah ohh ah oo
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
X marks the box in the hole in the ground that goes off at a breath
So careful don't make a sound
X marks the box in the hole in your head that you dug for yourself
Now lie in it
Shut up about all of that negative shit
You wanted to make it and now that you're in
You shut your eyes and flip the cassette
And that's about the time that they hit
And that's about the time that they hit
What the fuck is up with this shit'
It's certainly not worth getting upset
His hands are gone and most of his head
And just when he was getting so good
Just when he was getting so good
And I could save you baby but it isn't worth my time
'Cause even if I saved you there's a million more in line
Woo-ah-oo
Woo-ooh-ah-oo
Woo-ah 'ooh ah ohh ah oo
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
I can't get them up
I can't get them up At all
Hey ho let go
Good morning killer king you're a star
That's gorgeous hold it right where you are
The weathers kinda lousy today
So what oh what oh what'll we play'
Stratocaster strapped to your back
It's semi-automatic like dads
He taught you how to pause and reset
But that's about as far as you get
So what's the use of going outside'
It's so depressing when people die in real life
I'd rather pick up right where we left
Making out to faces of death
Making out to faces of death
And I could save you baby But it isn't worth my time
And I could make you chase me for a little price is right
It's a hit but are you actually sure'
The targets in the crowd are a blur
People screaming just like they should
But you don't even know if you're good
You don't even know if you're good
So tie them up and feed them the sand
Ha! nigga! try hard to tell us using your hands
A pictures worth a million words
And that way nobody gets hurt
And that way nobody gets hurt
And I could save you baby but it isn't worth my time
And I could make you chase me for a little price is right
Woo-ah-oo
Woo-ooh-ah-oo
Woo-ah 'ooh ah ohh ah oo
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
X marks the box in the hole in the ground that goes off at a breath
So careful don't make a sound
X marks the box in the hole in your head that you dug for yourself
Now lie in it
Shut up about all of that negative shit
You wanted to make it and now that you're in
You shut your eyes and flip the cassette
And that's about the time that they hit
And that's about the time that they hit
What the fuck is up with this shit'
It's certainly not worth getting upset
His hands are gone and most of his head
And just when he was getting so good
Just when he was getting so good
And I could save you baby but it isn't worth my time
'Cause even if I saved you there's a million more in line
Woo-ah-oo
Woo-ooh-ah-oo
Woo-ah 'ooh ah ohh ah oo
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
You're my guitar hero
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