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 remember when, when we sat outside,
Digesting "nourriture" that didn't suit their eyes.
We stood our ground, and took it as a layer to our shells,
And still you laugh at me. Why?
Remember when we thought we'd known each other, all our lives?
Those are the types that you can never really lose, and when you fell into a trap,
I knew you more than you knew you.
I need to go, I need to get away from everything
I'll have to run to get away from here
I need to go, I need to get away from everything
Just for a while, I need to get away from here.
And so we slowly slowly climbed over a ladder with no other side
And so I'll plead with you one last time,
Just to consider my point of view,
The path on which you walk will never fail to keep you safe,
But it will crumble underneath me, minus you.
Digesting "nourriture" that didn't suit their eyes.
We stood our ground, and took it as a layer to our shells,
And still you laugh at me. Why?
Remember when we thought we'd known each other, all our lives?
Those are the types that you can never really lose, and when you fell into a trap,
I knew you more than you knew you.
I need to go, I need to get away from everything
I'll have to run to get away from here
I need to go, I need to get away from everything
Just for a while, I need to get away from here.
And so we slowly slowly climbed over a ladder with no other side
And so I'll plead with you one last time,
Just to consider my point of view,
The path on which you walk will never fail to keep you safe,
But it will crumble underneath me, minus you.
Lyrics submitted by DarkerShadeofWinter
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I love this line "And still you laugh at me. Why?" I think it's indicating the betrayal she feels. She's come on hard times and her friend is laughing at her. So she is saying, "After all we've been through, how could you do that to me?"
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But it will crumble underneath me, minus you."
I think this shows, the other person is being quite self centered. They are going down the path they want and not conisdering how it might affect their friend.