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"
When I was a boy, I could not stand the silence
I needed the noise, I was underage and overjoyed
Changin' my ways, but there's so many ways to change
I'm going up, I'm getting wise, I'm gettin' strange
All I was lookin' for was you
All I was lookin' for was you
I ran my ship into the ground
Chasin' some high and lonesome sound
From Venice Beach to Kathmandu
My money's gone, my time it flew
All I was lookin' for was you (All this time, All this time)
Some marry for love, some marry for money
Dollars and cents, through open arms and barb wire fence
Running away, from everything that looks like me
I heard a voice, I saw your face, it set me free
All I was lookin' for was you
All I was lookin' for was you
The endless highways I road down
The girls I kissed in every town
Midnight on Heartbreak Avenue
All twisted up on bitches' brew
All I was lookin' for was you
Running away, from everything that looks like me
I heard a voice, I saw your face, it set me free
All I was lookin' for was you
All I was lookin' for was you
The endless highways I road down
The girls I kissed in every town
Midnight on Heartbreak Avenue
All twisted up on bitches' brew
All I was lookin' for was you
All I was lookin' for was you (All this time)
I learned the words, I sang the song
Then I got lost in Babylon (All this time)
I ran my ship into the ground
Chasin' some high and lonesome sound
The lies I told to get me through
Nobody knows me like you do
All I was lookin' for was you
I needed the noise, I was underage and overjoyed
Changin' my ways, but there's so many ways to change
I'm going up, I'm getting wise, I'm gettin' strange
All I was lookin' for was you
All I was lookin' for was you
I ran my ship into the ground
Chasin' some high and lonesome sound
From Venice Beach to Kathmandu
My money's gone, my time it flew
All I was lookin' for was you (All this time, All this time)
Some marry for love, some marry for money
Dollars and cents, through open arms and barb wire fence
Running away, from everything that looks like me
I heard a voice, I saw your face, it set me free
All I was lookin' for was you
All I was lookin' for was you
The endless highways I road down
The girls I kissed in every town
Midnight on Heartbreak Avenue
All twisted up on bitches' brew
All I was lookin' for was you
Running away, from everything that looks like me
I heard a voice, I saw your face, it set me free
All I was lookin' for was you
All I was lookin' for was you
The endless highways I road down
The girls I kissed in every town
Midnight on Heartbreak Avenue
All twisted up on bitches' brew
All I was lookin' for was you
All I was lookin' for was you (All this time)
I learned the words, I sang the song
Then I got lost in Babylon (All this time)
I ran my ship into the ground
Chasin' some high and lonesome sound
The lies I told to get me through
Nobody knows me like you do
All I was lookin' for was you
Lyrics submitted by blinxbcr
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