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"
Take it in and don’t regret
Here in lies the moment
But please don’t ever come back with that smile I was along for the ride.
Could you let this sink into your head,
For just one more second inside my bed.
The pillow screams what I cannot
Just thank God that we’ve never been caught
Cause I can
Do things you can only dream of
Everything your boyfriend couldn’t do
Take a look at what you’re missing
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
I’m tryin’ hard to shake this
But you have got me spinning in circles
It’s all we need to do
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
If you wait one day,
It will be okay
I’ve let it all go to my head for the last damn time, It seems they always say,
Feelings never fade like photographs.
Could this be a part of your plan?
Cause I can
Do things you can only dream of
Everything your boyfriend couldn’t do
Take a look at what you’re missing
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
I’m tryin’ hard to shake this
But you have got me spinning in circles
It’s all we need to do
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
Come on Come on,
Listen close right now.
Put up your hands and make that sound.
Do it for the lovers and losers and lets not forget our favorite users.
Pull yourself together,
There will always be stormy weather
So don’t deny what we had,
It never felt so bad.
Cause I can
Do things you can only dream of
Everything your boyfriend couldn’t do
Take a look at what you’re missing
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
I’m tryin’ hard to shake this
But you have got me spinning in circles
It’s all we need to do
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
Here in lies the moment
But please don’t ever come back with that smile I was along for the ride.
Could you let this sink into your head,
For just one more second inside my bed.
The pillow screams what I cannot
Just thank God that we’ve never been caught
Cause I can
Do things you can only dream of
Everything your boyfriend couldn’t do
Take a look at what you’re missing
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
I’m tryin’ hard to shake this
But you have got me spinning in circles
It’s all we need to do
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
If you wait one day,
It will be okay
I’ve let it all go to my head for the last damn time, It seems they always say,
Feelings never fade like photographs.
Could this be a part of your plan?
Cause I can
Do things you can only dream of
Everything your boyfriend couldn’t do
Take a look at what you’re missing
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
I’m tryin’ hard to shake this
But you have got me spinning in circles
It’s all we need to do
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
Come on Come on,
Listen close right now.
Put up your hands and make that sound.
Do it for the lovers and losers and lets not forget our favorite users.
Pull yourself together,
There will always be stormy weather
So don’t deny what we had,
It never felt so bad.
Cause I can
Do things you can only dream of
Everything your boyfriend couldn’t do
Take a look at what you’re missing
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
I’m tryin’ hard to shake this
But you have got me spinning in circles
It’s all we need to do
(Take two down and one to go)
Break it up
Lyrics submitted by leahXatlXwtkXs!o
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