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"
Lock all the doors
Barricade all the windows
Let's write an ending that's the envy of a broadway show
So take your knife
And hold it to my throat
I say you haven't got the guts
You say you will, I know you won't
So I'll say c'mon
You'll say let's go
Let's show them what worth dying for
Stare so hard that you burn a hole right through my back
Isn't that what lover's do?
Are you obsessed with me like I'm obsessed with you?
And if it's not love then what are we?
But two dumb kids that can not breathe
Without eachother
This is borderline stalker
So hold your breath and hope for the best darling
We're just lying to keep quiet
The daily lives we both possess
The daily lives we both regret
And it starts with a scream like this
The kind that can make your heartbeat want to skip
Fall to the floor
Let's show them what's worth dying for
Stare so hard that you burn a hole right through my back
Isn't that what lover's do?
Are you obsessed with me like I'm obsessed with you?
And if it's not love then what are we?
But two dumb kids that can not breathe
Without eachother
This is borderline stalker
To love someone so much
And have to see them look at someone else is...
It's hell, it's hell
All you good for nothing boys
Meet good for nothing girls
We're good for nothing
It's hell, it's hell
And all you good for nothing boys
Meet good for nothing girls
We're good for nothing
It's in our blood
To disappoint
And lead you on
From the hotel bed
To the hotel floor
Let's show them what's worth dying for
Stare so hard that you burn a hole right through my back
Isn't that what lover's do?
Are you obsessed with me like I'm obsessed with you?
And if it's not love then what are we?
But two dumb kids that can not breathe
Without eachother
This is borderline stalker
Stare so hard that you burn a hole right through my back
Isn't that what lover's do?
Are you obsessed with me
Stare so hard that you burn a hole right through my back
Isn't that what lover's do?
Are you obsessed with me like I'm obsessed with you?
Barricade all the windows
Let's write an ending that's the envy of a broadway show
So take your knife
And hold it to my throat
I say you haven't got the guts
You say you will, I know you won't
So I'll say c'mon
You'll say let's go
Let's show them what worth dying for
Stare so hard that you burn a hole right through my back
Isn't that what lover's do?
Are you obsessed with me like I'm obsessed with you?
And if it's not love then what are we?
But two dumb kids that can not breathe
Without eachother
This is borderline stalker
So hold your breath and hope for the best darling
We're just lying to keep quiet
The daily lives we both possess
The daily lives we both regret
And it starts with a scream like this
The kind that can make your heartbeat want to skip
Fall to the floor
Let's show them what's worth dying for
Stare so hard that you burn a hole right through my back
Isn't that what lover's do?
Are you obsessed with me like I'm obsessed with you?
And if it's not love then what are we?
But two dumb kids that can not breathe
Without eachother
This is borderline stalker
To love someone so much
And have to see them look at someone else is...
It's hell, it's hell
All you good for nothing boys
Meet good for nothing girls
We're good for nothing
It's hell, it's hell
And all you good for nothing boys
Meet good for nothing girls
We're good for nothing
It's in our blood
To disappoint
And lead you on
From the hotel bed
To the hotel floor
Let's show them what's worth dying for
Stare so hard that you burn a hole right through my back
Isn't that what lover's do?
Are you obsessed with me like I'm obsessed with you?
And if it's not love then what are we?
But two dumb kids that can not breathe
Without eachother
This is borderline stalker
Stare so hard that you burn a hole right through my back
Isn't that what lover's do?
Are you obsessed with me
Stare so hard that you burn a hole right through my back
Isn't that what lover's do?
Are you obsessed with me like I'm obsessed with you?
Lyrics submitted by xXbUlLeTsXx
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Ugh, completely amazing if you ask me.