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 woke up tired and feeling old,
And I wondered why my bed was cold
And I thought could you have gone?
And if so where and how long?
And why would I let you go?
Why would I ever let you go?
Oh but sometimes I, I could tell my heart yes is no
Like sometimes I wake up old and all alone
Oh no what if I never knew your name
Oh my god, the thought's insane
What if your love is not the same
As it seems inside my brain
What if your not really in my sheets
Oh, oh just the thought gives me the creeps
I woke up young in lovers love
And I felt my luck, when I felt your touch
And my skin it wondered how
And my skin it wondered how
Could you be touching me right now
When in my sleep you can't be found
Oh but somehow by something has carried our love through the years
But somehow I still carry on but in my fears
Like, oh what if I never knew your name
Oh my god, the thought's insane
What if your love is not the same
As it seems inside my brain
What if your not really in my sheets
Oh just the thought gives me the creeps
Oh no what if I never knew your name
Oh my God, the thought's insane
What if your love is not the same
As it seems inside my brain
What if your not really in my sheets
Oh, just the thought gives me the creeps
Oh no, just the thought gives me the creeps
Oh no, just the thought gives me the creeps
Oh no, just the thought gives me the creeps
And I wondered why my bed was cold
And I thought could you have gone?
And if so where and how long?
And why would I let you go?
Why would I ever let you go?
Oh but sometimes I, I could tell my heart yes is no
Like sometimes I wake up old and all alone
Oh no what if I never knew your name
Oh my god, the thought's insane
What if your love is not the same
As it seems inside my brain
What if your not really in my sheets
Oh, oh just the thought gives me the creeps
I woke up young in lovers love
And I felt my luck, when I felt your touch
And my skin it wondered how
And my skin it wondered how
Could you be touching me right now
When in my sleep you can't be found
Oh but somehow by something has carried our love through the years
But somehow I still carry on but in my fears
Like, oh what if I never knew your name
Oh my god, the thought's insane
What if your love is not the same
As it seems inside my brain
What if your not really in my sheets
Oh just the thought gives me the creeps
Oh no what if I never knew your name
Oh my God, the thought's insane
What if your love is not the same
As it seems inside my brain
What if your not really in my sheets
Oh, just the thought gives me the creeps
Oh no, just the thought gives me the creeps
Oh no, just the thought gives me the creeps
Oh no, just the thought gives me the creeps
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