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 your smile becomes the reason I breathe,
And your eyes become the motive to see
But if it's better for your health,
To say that love it lives in someone else
And all that I can say, all that I can say is
She's my last request
Everything else is suddenly taking over
I'm my own regret
And all that I wanted is out of my hands
Your thoughts have formed religion and love
Other things that I recall when you're gone
And now I'm left without a clue
Of where I stood in line when I lost you
And all that I can say, it's all that I can say is
She's my last request
Everything else is suddenly taking over
And I'm my own regret
And all that I wanted is out of my hands,
Out of my hands
When your smile becomes the reason I breathe,
And your eyes become the motive to see
And all that I can say is
She's my last request
Everything else is suddenly taking over
I'm my own regret
And all that I wanted is out of my hands,
Out of my hands
She's my last request
Everything else is suddenly taking over
I'm my own regret
And all that I wanted is out of my hands,
And your eyes become the motive to see
But if it's better for your health,
To say that love it lives in someone else
And all that I can say, all that I can say is
She's my last request
Everything else is suddenly taking over
I'm my own regret
And all that I wanted is out of my hands
Your thoughts have formed religion and love
Other things that I recall when you're gone
And now I'm left without a clue
Of where I stood in line when I lost you
And all that I can say, it's all that I can say is
She's my last request
Everything else is suddenly taking over
And I'm my own regret
And all that I wanted is out of my hands,
Out of my hands
When your smile becomes the reason I breathe,
And your eyes become the motive to see
And all that I can say is
She's my last request
Everything else is suddenly taking over
I'm my own regret
And all that I wanted is out of my hands,
Out of my hands
She's my last request
Everything else is suddenly taking over
I'm my own regret
And all that I wanted is out of my hands,
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I think this song means he lost the one he loves so much, and without her, there simply is no reason to live. It almost seems like the breakup was some sort of 'death' to him because when you lose the person who meant the world to you, a part of you seems to die inside and when someone is asking him what his last request is before his 'death', his last request is her. She's all he wants.
I think it's well done, like all his others. He's an amazing artist. :)