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'm sorry for the temper I let get away from me
I said a lot of things I didn't really mean
You always wore your heart on the outside
'Cause this was just a mess we could never really hide
And now, I'm paying for all the mistakes that you've made
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
And there you go again with
all the troubles That you get in
it's pins and needles
We'll start a fire so big the Heavens can see it
You keep going up in flames, such a good name
And now I'm paying for all the mistakes
that you've made
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
You'll soon become a voice On the other end of the phone
when I go, go, go
Wearing my heart on my sleeve has become
just a touch too messy for me
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
This is the rescue, the rescue
This is the rescue, the rescue
This is where we collide
I said a lot of things I didn't really mean
You always wore your heart on the outside
'Cause this was just a mess we could never really hide
And now, I'm paying for all the mistakes that you've made
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
And there you go again with
all the troubles That you get in
it's pins and needles
We'll start a fire so big the Heavens can see it
You keep going up in flames, such a good name
And now I'm paying for all the mistakes
that you've made
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
You'll soon become a voice On the other end of the phone
when I go, go, go
Wearing my heart on my sleeve has become
just a touch too messy for me
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
This is the rescue, the rescue
The reason I've been holding my breath every night
This is where we collide
This is the rescue, the rescue
This is the rescue, the rescue
This is where we collide
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