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"
Three and a half when we met for the first time
A thing I can't remember but I know it anyhow
Neighbours brothers, brothers for life
Fell in love with the same girls in our hometown
Nothing could part us, not one thing
When we walked the streets of Norrköping
You were the first of us to make love 13'th of December '94
Santa Lucia what was it like
To have a girl in your boy room the whole night
I hated you and your first girlfriend
Thought I was alone in the world being a virgin
A hard competition in all we did
A complete war on the football field
You said that bananas could make us high
Saved them in your locker till they got dry
Remember how cool we felt
Behind the corner smoking cigarettes
Tanja killed herself, Benny had an overdose
Niklas Karlsson got a new nose
I hope you're all free wherever you might be
We're all part of the history of Norrköping
I think we were about 17 when you said "money is gonna make me free"
You pulled your pants up, no more baggy jeans
No more football I'll go for the studies
I met you again a few weeks ago
You had a proper job and a place to call home
You had earned your first grand
And you looked like a real businessman
You said "Yes things are different yes things have changed
But I'll always love you it will always be the same
and I know that there will be a time when we will be
back together in our hometown Norrköping"
A thing I can't remember but I know it anyhow
Neighbours brothers, brothers for life
Fell in love with the same girls in our hometown
Nothing could part us, not one thing
When we walked the streets of Norrköping
You were the first of us to make love 13'th of December '94
Santa Lucia what was it like
To have a girl in your boy room the whole night
I hated you and your first girlfriend
Thought I was alone in the world being a virgin
A hard competition in all we did
A complete war on the football field
You said that bananas could make us high
Saved them in your locker till they got dry
Remember how cool we felt
Behind the corner smoking cigarettes
Tanja killed herself, Benny had an overdose
Niklas Karlsson got a new nose
I hope you're all free wherever you might be
We're all part of the history of Norrköping
I think we were about 17 when you said "money is gonna make me free"
You pulled your pants up, no more baggy jeans
No more football I'll go for the studies
I met you again a few weeks ago
You had a proper job and a place to call home
You had earned your first grand
And you looked like a real businessman
You said "Yes things are different yes things have changed
But I'll always love you it will always be the same
and I know that there will be a time when we will be
back together in our hometown Norrköping"
Lyrics submitted by ljudvision
Norrköping Lyrics as written by Lars Skoglund David Nygard
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