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"
There was this big Guy
And He had a great idea.
He built Himself a world
And He put people on it.
But the people they turned wicked,
And they soon forgot
Who had made their very being
And put them on their planet.
So the God He sent His very own Son,
His only holy Son.
And He sent Him to the world
'cause something had to be done.
His son walked around and He told the truth
Like the truth had never been told.
He was kind to the poor,
His home was the road.
Unlike any other heroes
Of which a song could be sung,
He never did bad to anyone.
He never did no harm.
But there were other people who weren't so nice
And they plotted to take His life
And the Man knew all about it
But He didn't even hide.
And they beat Him and they robbed Him
And they hung Him for bein' good.
And they laughed and made jokes
While they stood in his blood.
But there's a happy ending to the story.
I think you'll be glad to know
He came back to life in glory,
And up from the grave He arose.
So before you turn out your light,
Remember this one Man
Who lived comfortably in heaven
But gave it all up to hang on a cross.
Because He hung for you and me
And He came to set us free.
'Cause his Dad had a great idea
About the way things ought to be.
And He had a great idea.
He built Himself a world
And He put people on it.
But the people they turned wicked,
And they soon forgot
Who had made their very being
And put them on their planet.
So the God He sent His very own Son,
His only holy Son.
And He sent Him to the world
'cause something had to be done.
His son walked around and He told the truth
Like the truth had never been told.
He was kind to the poor,
His home was the road.
Unlike any other heroes
Of which a song could be sung,
He never did bad to anyone.
He never did no harm.
But there were other people who weren't so nice
And they plotted to take His life
And the Man knew all about it
But He didn't even hide.
And they beat Him and they robbed Him
And they hung Him for bein' good.
And they laughed and made jokes
While they stood in his blood.
But there's a happy ending to the story.
I think you'll be glad to know
He came back to life in glory,
And up from the grave He arose.
So before you turn out your light,
Remember this one Man
Who lived comfortably in heaven
But gave it all up to hang on a cross.
Because He hung for you and me
And He came to set us free.
'Cause his Dad had a great idea
About the way things ought to be.
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