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"
hey, you cash on the barrel-head and get on the floor
and all the rest of you away from the door
and everything that you ever thought would come true
i've got news for you..
all the cash on the barrel-head
you never thought you'd be doing this ever
i don't know why you think you can talk to me
in such an uncivil tone
i should peel back the skin from an orange
' remember how you got all o' this
well all of this.. is stiff of coming true
there's nothing you can do to change it
you dont have to do the crime to do the time
its just guilt by association
i've been thinking to myself
There's something we should be upfront about
Are you starting to figure out
that you're never going home?
Never going home?
all alone, but from what i see fit
there's nothing you can do to change it
you dont have to do the crime to do the time
its just guilt by association
i'll stop you right here
i've got something to say
everything they deserve today
is going to come true..
how 'bout you?
no, you never thought you'd be in this place right here
where we're at
well there's something you must confront right now, now
dont you wish you could
take it
dont you wish you could change the way i feel
dont you wish you could look into my eyes
and make me feel
you're going to make me feel
its just guilt by association
and all the rest of you away from the door
and everything that you ever thought would come true
i've got news for you..
all the cash on the barrel-head
you never thought you'd be doing this ever
i don't know why you think you can talk to me
in such an uncivil tone
i should peel back the skin from an orange
' remember how you got all o' this
well all of this.. is stiff of coming true
there's nothing you can do to change it
you dont have to do the crime to do the time
its just guilt by association
i've been thinking to myself
There's something we should be upfront about
Are you starting to figure out
that you're never going home?
Never going home?
all alone, but from what i see fit
there's nothing you can do to change it
you dont have to do the crime to do the time
its just guilt by association
i'll stop you right here
i've got something to say
everything they deserve today
is going to come true..
how 'bout you?
no, you never thought you'd be in this place right here
where we're at
well there's something you must confront right now, now
dont you wish you could
take it
dont you wish you could change the way i feel
dont you wish you could look into my eyes
and make me feel
you're going to make me feel
its just guilt by association
Lyrics submitted by 4horsemen21
Guilt by Association Lyrics as written by Brian Joseph Karscig Jason Staehler Hill
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Remember how you got all this? Well all this.. It's never ever coming true
Also: There's something we should be upfront about Are you starting to figure out that you're never going home? Never going home?
And (I think): Well there's something we must confront now now
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