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 wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
Kimi no kaori sae wakaranai
Kimi no shigusa sae wakaranai
Subete no kioku wo kakikesare
Ikiteku imi sae wakaranai
ikinuku imi sae wakaranai
Omoeba dare ni aisareta
Sugite yuku kisetsu no naka de
Megurimeku toki no negare ni
Subete wo somarete shimatte
Kimi no moto e tadoritsuku
Arasoi atta hibi mo
Kanashimi ni kuzureta yoru sae
Ima wo ikiru tame no kate ni
Kawari hajimeru
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
Kimi no ibasho sae wakaranai
Kimi no egao sae wakaranai
Fuan no uzu ni nagasarete
Kokoro no kizu wa iyasenai
Kokoro no namida mo nuguenai
Kodoku de kurutte shimaisou de
Aishiau kisetsu wa maru de
Ano goro no futari no you de
Subete wo wasurete shimatte
Kanarazu kimi ni ai ni yuku
Nikushimiatta hibi mo
Zetsubou ni kunou shita yoru mo
Boku wo tsukuru tame no kate ni kawari
Yakusoku no basho de
Ima kimi wo machi took wo mitsumeru
Dakedo kimi wa arawarenai
Dare ka kotae wo
Kimi no kaori sae wakaranai
Kimi no shigusa sae wakaranai
Subete no kioku wo kakikesare
Ikiteku imi sae wakaranai
ikinuku imi sae wakaranai
Omoeba dare ni aisareta
Aishiau kisetsu wa maru de
Ano goro no futari no you de
Subete wo wasurete shimatte
Kanarazu kimi ni ai ni yuku
Mirai no boku wa ima hontou ni waraeteimasu ka
Ima wo ikiru boku jishin ni katari
Yakusoku no jikan da ne
Koko de ima kimi wo sagasu kedo doko ni mo inai
Doushite nee
Dare ka kotae wo
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
Kimi no kaori sae wakaranai
Kimi no shigusa sae wakaranai
Subete no kioku wo kakikesare
Ikiteku imi sae wakaranai
ikinuku imi sae wakaranai
Omoeba dare ni aisareta
Sugite yuku kisetsu no naka de
Megurimeku toki no negare ni
Subete wo somarete shimatte
Kimi no moto e tadoritsuku
Arasoi atta hibi mo
Kanashimi ni kuzureta yoru sae
Ima wo ikiru tame no kate ni
Kawari hajimeru
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
Kimi no ibasho sae wakaranai
Kimi no egao sae wakaranai
Fuan no uzu ni nagasarete
Kokoro no kizu wa iyasenai
Kokoro no namida mo nuguenai
Kodoku de kurutte shimaisou de
Aishiau kisetsu wa maru de
Ano goro no futari no you de
Subete wo wasurete shimatte
Kanarazu kimi ni ai ni yuku
Nikushimiatta hibi mo
Zetsubou ni kunou shita yoru mo
Boku wo tsukuru tame no kate ni kawari
Yakusoku no basho de
Ima kimi wo machi took wo mitsumeru
Dakedo kimi wa arawarenai
Dare ka kotae wo
Kimi no kaori sae wakaranai
Kimi no shigusa sae wakaranai
Subete no kioku wo kakikesare
Ikiteku imi sae wakaranai
ikinuku imi sae wakaranai
Omoeba dare ni aisareta
Aishiau kisetsu wa maru de
Ano goro no futari no you de
Subete wo wasurete shimatte
Kanarazu kimi ni ai ni yuku
Mirai no boku wa ima hontou ni waraeteimasu ka
Ima wo ikiru boku jishin ni katari
Yakusoku no jikan da ne
Koko de ima kimi wo sagasu kedo doko ni mo inai
Doushite nee
Dare ka kotae wo
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
I wish you out, out the west trail
Lyrics submitted by Howodd27
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