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"
When summer began,
the thunderstorms came.
Weren't we made invincible?
The skin that we sleep in,
dreams that we see.
Then everything became unbreakable.
And so in our minds there,
there was more time to,
to make the best of us.
But when we went back to reclaim our lives,
we were denied.
The day had run out of light.
So how will we sleep when,
when they come back,
when they come back to finish us?
And what will it mean when,
when we reach,
when we reach the end of us?
Because when we die there,
there will be more just,
more just like all of us.
And when our ghosts return,
backwards in time to relive our lives,
they might forget what to do.
the thunderstorms came.
Weren't we made invincible?
The skin that we sleep in,
dreams that we see.
Then everything became unbreakable.
And so in our minds there,
there was more time to,
to make the best of us.
But when we went back to reclaim our lives,
we were denied.
The day had run out of light.
So how will we sleep when,
when they come back,
when they come back to finish us?
And what will it mean when,
when we reach,
when we reach the end of us?
Because when we die there,
there will be more just,
more just like all of us.
And when our ghosts return,
backwards in time to relive our lives,
they might forget what to do.
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I think it's possible that this song may hold a metaphoric meaning of a relationship coming to it's end as well, but that's just a guess
<br>"When summer began, the thunderstorms came" I interpret the thunderstorms as problems or fights in the relationship.
"Because when we die there, there will be more just, more just like all of us." It seems like everyone struggles in a relationship at some point. No matter how much your love suffers, when it's over for you, there will stillbe plenty of heart ache in the world to go around.?
"And when our ghosts return, backwards in time to relive our lives, they might forget what to do. "
I interpret this part as saying that when you finally break up and move on to a new relationship, you may forget your past mistakes and make them again with your new lover.
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