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"
We got licked, just a bit, right outside the show
The T stripped, then your manners flew right out the door
It's like this, who you keep texting on the phone?
It's like that, I'm not the only one with whoops to owe
It's automatic, don't you point your finger at me
It's so tragic, you should be a Kennedy
It's automatic, pulling me like gravity
You're putting me down, pulling me down six feet
Hate me, hate me
Tell me what thought would make you break me, break me
Go on and shatter me 'cause lately you run me into the ground
And you can hate me, hate me
Call it a victory but you'll see lately, not going easily
'Cause I'm not falling down and you won't get the best of me now
A fat lip, finger flip and an insult to go
The record skips, you got issues like a girl in porn
It's like this, you act crazy from tour to four
It's like that, I can't take all of the blame no more
It's automatic, don't you point your finger at me
It's so tragic, you should be a Kennedy
It's automatic, pulling me like gravity
You're putting me down, pulling me down six feet
Hate me, hate me
Tell me what thought would make you break me, break me
Go on and shatter me 'cause lately you run me into the ground
And you can hate me, hate me
Call it a victory but you'll see lately, not going easily
'Cause I'm not falling down and you won't get the best of me now
I didn't wanna get into another battle, hey, hey
I didn't wanna make the claws and bones rattle, hey, hey
I didn't wanna get into another battle, hey, hey
It's automatic how you throw it all away
So hate me now
You can't break me down
So just hate me now
You can't break me down
And you can hate me, hate me
Tell me what thought would make you break me, break me
Go on and shatter me 'cause lately you run me into the ground
And you can hate me, hate me
Call it a victory but you'll see lately, not going easily
'Cause I'm not falling down and you won't get the best of me now
It's automatic, hey, hey
It's so tragic, hey, hey
It's automatic
The T stripped, then your manners flew right out the door
It's like this, who you keep texting on the phone?
It's like that, I'm not the only one with whoops to owe
It's automatic, don't you point your finger at me
It's so tragic, you should be a Kennedy
It's automatic, pulling me like gravity
You're putting me down, pulling me down six feet
Hate me, hate me
Tell me what thought would make you break me, break me
Go on and shatter me 'cause lately you run me into the ground
And you can hate me, hate me
Call it a victory but you'll see lately, not going easily
'Cause I'm not falling down and you won't get the best of me now
A fat lip, finger flip and an insult to go
The record skips, you got issues like a girl in porn
It's like this, you act crazy from tour to four
It's like that, I can't take all of the blame no more
It's automatic, don't you point your finger at me
It's so tragic, you should be a Kennedy
It's automatic, pulling me like gravity
You're putting me down, pulling me down six feet
Hate me, hate me
Tell me what thought would make you break me, break me
Go on and shatter me 'cause lately you run me into the ground
And you can hate me, hate me
Call it a victory but you'll see lately, not going easily
'Cause I'm not falling down and you won't get the best of me now
I didn't wanna get into another battle, hey, hey
I didn't wanna make the claws and bones rattle, hey, hey
I didn't wanna get into another battle, hey, hey
It's automatic how you throw it all away
So hate me now
You can't break me down
So just hate me now
You can't break me down
And you can hate me, hate me
Tell me what thought would make you break me, break me
Go on and shatter me 'cause lately you run me into the ground
And you can hate me, hate me
Call it a victory but you'll see lately, not going easily
'Cause I'm not falling down and you won't get the best of me now
It's automatic, hey, hey
It's so tragic, hey, hey
It's automatic
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