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"
He takes a breath, and she wants to leave
And he can't wait to show her things that
She's never seen before
But the weather is cold now
And she's too wrapped up
In things that can keep her warm
Unlike him, he’s the one that
Would heat up the winter's air
To keep her close
Away, away
They'll get away
They keep on retaking the photographs
They will never change
The way we kiss goodbye
The way we hold our hands
The way we walk along
The way we have no plans
This is something that I'd like to forget
These numbers repeat themselves
These phone calls have no destination
Dialing just anything to hear our voice tonight
Desperate for your attention
I’m all ears and I hear nothing, again
Now the phone call is over
And I'm still wrapped up
In things I have said before
Away, away
They'll get away
They keep on retaking the photographs
They will never change
The way we kiss goodbye
The way we hold our hands
The way we walk along
The way we have no plans
This is something that I'd like to forget
Away, away
Away, away
Away, away
Away, away
You're not perfect sport, and let me save you the suspense
This girl you met, she isn't perfect either
But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other
That's the whole deal, this is what intimacy is all about
Now you can know everything in the world, sport
But the only way you're finding out that one is by givin' it a shot
Away, away
They'll get away
They keep on retaking the photographs
They will never change
The way we kiss goodbye
The way we hold our hands
The way we walk along
The way we have no plans
This is something that I'd like to forget
(Now the phone call is over)
This is something that I’d like to forget
(And I’m still wrapped up)
This is something that I’d like to forget
(In things I have said before)
And he can't wait to show her things that
She's never seen before
But the weather is cold now
And she's too wrapped up
In things that can keep her warm
Unlike him, he’s the one that
Would heat up the winter's air
To keep her close
Away, away
They'll get away
They keep on retaking the photographs
They will never change
The way we kiss goodbye
The way we hold our hands
The way we walk along
The way we have no plans
This is something that I'd like to forget
These numbers repeat themselves
These phone calls have no destination
Dialing just anything to hear our voice tonight
Desperate for your attention
I’m all ears and I hear nothing, again
Now the phone call is over
And I'm still wrapped up
In things I have said before
Away, away
They'll get away
They keep on retaking the photographs
They will never change
The way we kiss goodbye
The way we hold our hands
The way we walk along
The way we have no plans
This is something that I'd like to forget
Away, away
Away, away
Away, away
Away, away
You're not perfect sport, and let me save you the suspense
This girl you met, she isn't perfect either
But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other
That's the whole deal, this is what intimacy is all about
Now you can know everything in the world, sport
But the only way you're finding out that one is by givin' it a shot
Away, away
They'll get away
They keep on retaking the photographs
They will never change
The way we kiss goodbye
The way we hold our hands
The way we walk along
The way we have no plans
This is something that I'd like to forget
(Now the phone call is over)
This is something that I’d like to forget
(And I’m still wrapped up)
This is something that I’d like to forget
(In things I have said before)
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