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 think about life
And oh how it changes so fast
And oh how it's so hard to last here
Waiting for something to give
I think about time
A luxury so hard to find
And I just can't figure out why
I wasted it all here without you
But I'll be fine
Oh don't you worry
'Cause I'll be fine
See I'm in a hurry
To be gone away awhile
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man 'cause I just don't know
I think about you
And all of the times that we shared
And oh what a wonderful pair
We made it so far, here we go again
I think about love
And oh what a beautiful song
And oh how it needs to be sung here
Sing it so loud all the world can hear
I think I'll be gone away awhile
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man ?cause I just don't know
I think I'll be gone away awhile
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man, 'cause I just don't know
No, no, I just don't know
And I just don't know
But I'll be fine
Oh don't you worry 'cause I'll be fine
See I'm in no hurry
No, I'll be fine
Oh don't you worry
'Cause I'll be fine
See I'm in a hurry
To be gone away awhile
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man 'cause I just don't know, no, no
I think I'll be gone away a while
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man, 'cause I just don't know
No, no, I just don't know
Gone away awhile
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man 'cause I just don't know
And oh how it changes so fast
And oh how it's so hard to last here
Waiting for something to give
I think about time
A luxury so hard to find
And I just can't figure out why
I wasted it all here without you
But I'll be fine
Oh don't you worry
'Cause I'll be fine
See I'm in a hurry
To be gone away awhile
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man 'cause I just don't know
I think about you
And all of the times that we shared
And oh what a wonderful pair
We made it so far, here we go again
I think about love
And oh what a beautiful song
And oh how it needs to be sung here
Sing it so loud all the world can hear
I think I'll be gone away awhile
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man ?cause I just don't know
I think I'll be gone away awhile
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man, 'cause I just don't know
No, no, I just don't know
And I just don't know
But I'll be fine
Oh don't you worry 'cause I'll be fine
See I'm in no hurry
No, I'll be fine
Oh don't you worry
'Cause I'll be fine
See I'm in a hurry
To be gone away awhile
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man 'cause I just don't know, no, no
I think I'll be gone away a while
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man, 'cause I just don't know
No, no, I just don't know
Gone away awhile
Tell me all the things that I
I'll be missing here in this old life
Man 'cause I just don't know
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i don't even know if that made sense to anyone else but it does to me.