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"
Dirty streets and dirty deals
Doesn't need thinking about
Nor when you're eating your home-cooked meals but...
Actually it fucking does
Dirty streets and dirty deals
Doesn't need thinking about
Nor when you're eating your home-cooked meals but...
Actually it fucking does
The time that it takes is long
And the hurt that it makes is strong
And those eyes that you see are so young
They're so young
The backs of trucks covered in dirt
Dirt from the road, from the track
Dirt from the devil himself
I can't see a way of you getting back
Oh, dirty human being
Everyday day after day, day after day
Well, there's no way
You'll get away
And the time that it takes is long
And the hurt that it makes is strong
And those eyes that you see are young
They're so young
These are the dirty deals
These are the dirty deals
These are the dirty dirty dirty dirty deals
And
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you
It's been, been ripped and sliced and torn
Been kicked and beat and smashed and ...
It's just a routine, just something
Just something that you do every day
There's no hope of getting away
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Couldn't be, not really, not after what you've been through
So, what's left? What does the world see?
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
Doesn't need thinking about
Nor when you're eating your home-cooked meals but...
Actually it fucking does
Dirty streets and dirty deals
Doesn't need thinking about
Nor when you're eating your home-cooked meals but...
Actually it fucking does
The time that it takes is long
And the hurt that it makes is strong
And those eyes that you see are so young
They're so young
The backs of trucks covered in dirt
Dirt from the road, from the track
Dirt from the devil himself
I can't see a way of you getting back
Oh, dirty human being
Everyday day after day, day after day
Well, there's no way
You'll get away
And the time that it takes is long
And the hurt that it makes is strong
And those eyes that you see are young
They're so young
These are the dirty deals
These are the dirty deals
These are the dirty dirty dirty dirty deals
And
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you
It's been, been ripped and sliced and torn
Been kicked and beat and smashed and ...
It's just a routine, just something
Just something that you do every day
There's no hope of getting away
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Couldn't be, not really, not after what you've been through
So, what's left? What does the world see?
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
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