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 water fell from the sky
It rained all day and all night
And the rivers flooded our whole town
So I swam to your house so we could float around
And I said, before we go down
I have to tell you that I love you
Before we go down
I hope you know that I care
'Cause I kept all these words
Bottled up so tight
But tonight's the night I'll tell ya
You're the love of my life
Our plane came tumbling from the sky
We fell so fast, we were up so high
And you didn't even make a sound
But I held your hand, 'til we hit the ground
It rained all day and all night
And the rivers flooded our whole town
So I swam to your house so we could float around
And I said, before we go down
I have to tell you that I love you
Before we go down
I hope you know that I care
'Cause I kept all these words
Bottled up so tight
But tonight's the night I'll tell ya
You're the love of my life
Our plane came tumbling from the sky
We fell so fast, we were up so high
And you didn't even make a sound
But I held your hand, 'til we hit the ground
Lyrics submitted by BleedorBreathe
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I saw this dude live...he's pretty awesomee and he explained the meaning of the song. He said he really loved a girl but never had the guts to tell her. Well one day he decided to tell her and while he was thinking about he imagined horrible stuff like floods and plane crashes while telling her that he loved her. He is a great artist and i recommend that should listen to his musikk.