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"
YOU’RE VALUED AS A KEEPER OF A SECRET FOR ME
YOUR INTENTIONS AREN’T SURROUNDED BY BRACKETS OR THIEVES
THERE’S A SPIRIT TAKING OVER ITS HARDER TO RESTRAIN
CAN YOU FEEL IT? HERE WE GO AGAIN, HERE WE GO AGAIN
ITS ALL RIGHT NOW, IT SHOULD HAVE REALLY HAPPENED
WELL ITS ALL RIGHT, THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
IT ALL GOT STARTED WHEN THIS MAN SAID TO ME
HAVE YOU BEEN AWAY LATELY? ITS MAD WHAT YOU SEE
YOU CAN THINK OF A THEATRE ALWAYS ON THE GO
NOW THAT’S JUST LIKE THE WAY THAT YOU CAN LET YOUR LOVE SHOW
ITS ALL RIGHT NOW IT SHOULD HAVE REALLY HAPPENED
WELL ITS ALL RIGHT ,THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
MARCHING THROUGH THE MARSH
KEEP A STRING FROM WHERE YOU ‘VE BEEN
KEEP YOUR SCISSORS SHARP THEN YOU CAN RE-BEGIN
DON’T GET CAUGHT UP IN TIME ALREADY DOWN THE DRAIN
CAN YOU FEEL IT, HERE WE GO AGAIN, HERE WE GO AGAIN
ITS ALL RIGHT NOW, IT SHOULD HAVE REALLY HAPPENED
WELL ITS ALL RIGHT, ITS ALL RIIIGGGHHHTT
THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
ITS ALL RIGHT NOW, IT SHOULD HAVE REALLY HAPPENED
WELL ITS ALL RIGHT, ITS ALL RIGHT, THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
I TRUST THE DEFINITION LIKE JACK AND THE BEAN
HAD HE NEVER SOWN IT, THEN HE NEVER WOULD HAVE SEEN
THE HEIGHTS ACHIEVED ARE OVER THE SCALE OF YOU AND ME
IF YOUR JUMPING FROM CONCLUSIONS THEN THE MORAL WILL BE
ITS ALL RIGHT NOW, IT SHOULD HAVE REALLY HAPPENED
WELL ITS ALL RIGHT, ITS ALL RIGHT
THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
THIS IS FOR THE BETTER DAYS
Lyrics submitted by xerces
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