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"
Boston, USA
here she comes now over the skyline
I'm Home again, i'm feeling fine
There's the River Charles and Kenmore Square
I don't want to go anywhere
There's another show, get in the van
To another town to do it all over again
I can't wait to get back Home
To the city streets where I come from
To the Dirty Water of Boston, USA
It's 3 AM and I'm still not done
I could walk these streets till i hit the dawn
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
I know this is where I belong
It looks like it's still early, get some beer
Let's catch the Green Line down to Kenmore Square
Can you tell me where they put the Rat?
To those memories i still look back
To the Dirty Water of Boston, USA
It was a summer night by the Mass Ave Bridge
When i gave that girl a little kiss
She said "I don't think i can see you no more"
I said "If that's the case then I'll carry on
Because the city streets are all there is for me"
Friends come and go but these will always be
I'll take the C-town, Cambridge, all the rest
But i wont take no second best
To the Dirty Water of Boston, USA
here she comes now over the skyline
I'm Home again, i'm feeling fine
There's the River Charles and Kenmore Square
I don't want to go anywhere
There's another show, get in the van
To another town to do it all over again
I can't wait to get back Home
To the city streets where I come from
To the Dirty Water of Boston, USA
It's 3 AM and I'm still not done
I could walk these streets till i hit the dawn
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
I know this is where I belong
It looks like it's still early, get some beer
Let's catch the Green Line down to Kenmore Square
Can you tell me where they put the Rat?
To those memories i still look back
To the Dirty Water of Boston, USA
It was a summer night by the Mass Ave Bridge
When i gave that girl a little kiss
She said "I don't think i can see you no more"
I said "If that's the case then I'll carry on
Because the city streets are all there is for me"
Friends come and go but these will always be
I'll take the C-town, Cambridge, all the rest
But i wont take no second best
To the Dirty Water of Boston, USA
Lyrics submitted by acidmaniac
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