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"
Red colonial houses lining all the snow white streets
Working out all our problems there in the back of the house where the ghosts all sleep
I know it's impossible but you should try to shake it off
With that shot to the chest, boy
I know you mean it, you mean it, you mean it, you mean it
Defining the problems here it's the threat at home of regret at home
I know it's impossible, but you should try to shake it off
And if you really wanna shake it off
You're gonna re-arrange us
Just stop and shake it off
You're gonna re-arrange us
You were turning in anger
She's staring at the back twin trees
(You've got a fury for the smallest things
You've got to bury it in your head)
Kicking back all that fury there to the part of your head where it can live and seethe
I know it's impossible, but you should try to shake it off
With that shot to the chest, boy
I know you mean it, you meant it, you mean it, you mean it
(Staring at the back, twin trees while you're spinning your anger red)
Now I know what's inside you
I know I don't want you
I know I don't want you
I know it's impossible, but you should try to shake it off
And if you really want her shake it off, you've got to re-arrange us
Just stop and shake it off
You've gotta re-arrange us
Re-arrange us
Ooh
Love loud, don't lose loud
Re-arrange us
You're the re-arranger
Working out all our problems there in the back of the house where the ghosts all sleep
I know it's impossible but you should try to shake it off
With that shot to the chest, boy
I know you mean it, you mean it, you mean it, you mean it
Defining the problems here it's the threat at home of regret at home
I know it's impossible, but you should try to shake it off
And if you really wanna shake it off
You're gonna re-arrange us
Just stop and shake it off
You're gonna re-arrange us
You were turning in anger
She's staring at the back twin trees
(You've got a fury for the smallest things
You've got to bury it in your head)
Kicking back all that fury there to the part of your head where it can live and seethe
I know it's impossible, but you should try to shake it off
With that shot to the chest, boy
I know you mean it, you meant it, you mean it, you mean it
(Staring at the back, twin trees while you're spinning your anger red)
Now I know what's inside you
I know I don't want you
I know I don't want you
I know it's impossible, but you should try to shake it off
And if you really want her shake it off, you've got to re-arrange us
Just stop and shake it off
You've gotta re-arrange us
Re-arrange us
Ooh
Love loud, don't lose loud
Re-arrange us
You're the re-arranger
Lyrics submitted by StuffLikeHearts
The Re-Arranger Lyrics as written by Kori Gardner Hammel Jason Edward Hammel
Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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i thought thats what they said too, but its: "Love loud, don't lose loud."
...which..i LOVE.