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 don't know how long it's been going on
I don't know how long colors were changing to gray
It's kinda funny that I act this way
I don't know how long you've been holding on
I don't know how long everything's been my fault
It's getting easier to take the blame
It's getting easier to try and change
Too many times I have told you that I was okay
But I'm finally feeling like I can explain myself
I'm not claiming that I know everything
No, I'm not because you made me this way
I don't know how long I can justify it
I'm tired of making up reasons, you're not on my side
And I would never talk to her that way
No, I would never talk to her that way
Too many times I have told you that I was okay
But I'm finally feeling like I can explain myself
I'm not claiming that I know everything
No, I'm not because you made me this way
Too many times I have told you that I was okay
But I'm finally feeling like I can explain myself
I'm not claiming that I know everything
No, I'm not, oh
Too many times I have told you that I was okay
But I'm finally feeling like I can explain myself
I'm not claiming that I know everything
No, I'm not because you made me this way
You made me this way
I don't know how long it's been going on
I don't know how long colors were changing to gray
It's kinda funny that I act this way
I don't know how long you've been holding on
I don't know how long everything's been my fault
It's getting easier to take the blame
It's getting easier to try and change
Too many times I have told you that I was okay
But I'm finally feeling like I can explain myself
I'm not claiming that I know everything
No, I'm not because you made me this way
I don't know how long I can justify it
I'm tired of making up reasons, you're not on my side
And I would never talk to her that way
No, I would never talk to her that way
Too many times I have told you that I was okay
But I'm finally feeling like I can explain myself
I'm not claiming that I know everything
No, I'm not because you made me this way
Too many times I have told you that I was okay
But I'm finally feeling like I can explain myself
I'm not claiming that I know everything
No, I'm not, oh
Too many times I have told you that I was okay
But I'm finally feeling like I can explain myself
I'm not claiming that I know everything
No, I'm not because you made me this way
You made me this way
I don't know how long it's been going on
Lyrics submitted by dontwasteyoursong
This Way Lyrics as written by Michelle Branch
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Good song. :)