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"
The start was a long goodbye.
In the end you just left me here.
You wait for no miracle.
You go to the land some book has told you about.
So go, you must find some warmth.
The warmth you never felt in your family.
You hide under maple leaves, that's the most secret place.
Hide your secret beauty, just guard that secret well with your life.
And for everything you've got a name.
And for everywhere you've got a map.
But all the while you just sharpened your knife.
Go and save this country, a lot of people wait.
Help to prevent forest fires but you will always stand in the flames.
And at least you need one year off, just enough to define yourself.
But all the while you were just sharpening your knife.
In your sleep you were seeing me drive past some Canadian airline.
But all your shirts and short skirts are cold for some national park in the north.
Cause it takes no meteorological knowledge
To say that the beach isn't warm in the Arctic.
All the while you were close to Alaska
You just pretend you were here with me.
And all the while you were just sharpening your knife.
And all the while you were just waiting to push
Me off the cliff.
In the end you just left me here.
You wait for no miracle.
You go to the land some book has told you about.
So go, you must find some warmth.
The warmth you never felt in your family.
You hide under maple leaves, that's the most secret place.
Hide your secret beauty, just guard that secret well with your life.
And for everything you've got a name.
And for everywhere you've got a map.
But all the while you just sharpened your knife.
Go and save this country, a lot of people wait.
Help to prevent forest fires but you will always stand in the flames.
And at least you need one year off, just enough to define yourself.
But all the while you were just sharpening your knife.
In your sleep you were seeing me drive past some Canadian airline.
But all your shirts and short skirts are cold for some national park in the north.
Cause it takes no meteorological knowledge
To say that the beach isn't warm in the Arctic.
All the while you were close to Alaska
You just pretend you were here with me.
And all the while you were just sharpening your knife.
And all the while you were just waiting to push
Me off the cliff.
Lyrics submitted by MissPurple
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