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 ain't got no regrets
I and I ain't losin' track of which way I'm going
I ain't gonna double back, no
Don't want no misplay
Put on no display, an angel, no
But I know my way, oh yeah, oh
I used follow
Yeah, that's true
But my following days are over
Now I just gotta follow through and
I remember what my father said
He said, "Son, life is simple"
It's either cherry red
Or midnight blue, oh
Midnight blue, oh
You were the restless one
And you did not care
That I was the trouble boy
Lookin' for a double dare
I won't apologize for
The things I've done and said
But when I win your heart
I'm gonna paint it cherry red
I don't want to talk about it
What you do to me
I can't live without it
And you might think that it's
Much too soon for us to go this far
Into the midnight blue, oh
It's midnight blue, oh
Now, things could be different
That'd be a shame, 'cause
I'm the one who could feel the sun
Right in the pouring rain
I won't say where and I don't know when but
Soon there gonna come a day, baby
I'll be back again
Yeah, I'll be back for you, oh
You see, I'm saving up my love
Midnight blue, oh
Into the midnight blue, oh
Under the midnight blue, oh
Beneath this midnight blue, oh (this midnight blue)
Into the midnight blue, oh
Midnight blue, oh
Midnight blue, oh
Beneath this midnight blue, oh
Into the midnight blue
I and I ain't losin' track of which way I'm going
I ain't gonna double back, no
Don't want no misplay
Put on no display, an angel, no
But I know my way, oh yeah, oh
I used follow
Yeah, that's true
But my following days are over
Now I just gotta follow through and
I remember what my father said
He said, "Son, life is simple"
It's either cherry red
Or midnight blue, oh
Midnight blue, oh
You were the restless one
And you did not care
That I was the trouble boy
Lookin' for a double dare
I won't apologize for
The things I've done and said
But when I win your heart
I'm gonna paint it cherry red
I don't want to talk about it
What you do to me
I can't live without it
And you might think that it's
Much too soon for us to go this far
Into the midnight blue, oh
It's midnight blue, oh
Now, things could be different
That'd be a shame, 'cause
I'm the one who could feel the sun
Right in the pouring rain
I won't say where and I don't know when but
Soon there gonna come a day, baby
I'll be back again
Yeah, I'll be back for you, oh
You see, I'm saving up my love
Midnight blue, oh
Into the midnight blue, oh
Under the midnight blue, oh
Beneath this midnight blue, oh (this midnight blue)
Into the midnight blue, oh
Midnight blue, oh
Midnight blue, oh
Beneath this midnight blue, oh
Into the midnight blue
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