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"
You can't see me behind the door
I just heard everything you said
You tell him, you're saying
All those things you used to say to me
Who is he?
I never thought you'd drop that avalanche on me
And be unfaithful
These hotel walls are paper thin, I'm going out
Seven, seven with the lime will keep me safe
Long enough to stop the thought of your embrace
Inside my head the lies that I've been fed
Throw it back behind my lips, the pain is gone
Line 'em up and knock 'em down
The night goes on and on and on
To let me cope with this disaster
I'm seven deep
Her brown hair and blue eyes
Looking right at me
Who is she?
I never thought I'd ever think of stepping out
I'll fight this temptation
This crowded bar is full of sin, I'm going out
Seven, seven with the lime will keep me safe
Long enough to stop the thought of your embrace
Inside my head the lies that I've been fed
Throw it back behind my lips, the pain is gone
Line 'em up and knock 'em down
The night goes on and on and on
To let me cope with this disaster
I'm not coming home tonight
I'd rather sleep on the street
I'm not coming home to you
I'd won't sleep with the devil
I'm not coming home tonight
I'd rather sleep on the street
I'm not coming home to you
I'd won't sleep with the devil
I'm not coming home tonight
I'd rather sleep on the street
I'm not coming home to you
I'd won't sleep with the devil
On this city street I'll rest my head tonight
I'm going out
Seven, seven with the lime will keep me safe
Long enough to stop the thought of your embrace
Inside my head the lies that I've been fed
Throw it back behind my lips, the pain is gone
Line 'em up and knock 'em down
The night goes on and on and on
To let me cope with this disaster
I just heard everything you said
You tell him, you're saying
All those things you used to say to me
Who is he?
I never thought you'd drop that avalanche on me
And be unfaithful
These hotel walls are paper thin, I'm going out
Seven, seven with the lime will keep me safe
Long enough to stop the thought of your embrace
Inside my head the lies that I've been fed
Throw it back behind my lips, the pain is gone
Line 'em up and knock 'em down
The night goes on and on and on
To let me cope with this disaster
I'm seven deep
Her brown hair and blue eyes
Looking right at me
Who is she?
I never thought I'd ever think of stepping out
I'll fight this temptation
This crowded bar is full of sin, I'm going out
Seven, seven with the lime will keep me safe
Long enough to stop the thought of your embrace
Inside my head the lies that I've been fed
Throw it back behind my lips, the pain is gone
Line 'em up and knock 'em down
The night goes on and on and on
To let me cope with this disaster
I'm not coming home tonight
I'd rather sleep on the street
I'm not coming home to you
I'd won't sleep with the devil
I'm not coming home tonight
I'd rather sleep on the street
I'm not coming home to you
I'd won't sleep with the devil
I'm not coming home tonight
I'd rather sleep on the street
I'm not coming home to you
I'd won't sleep with the devil
On this city street I'll rest my head tonight
I'm going out
Seven, seven with the lime will keep me safe
Long enough to stop the thought of your embrace
Inside my head the lies that I've been fed
Throw it back behind my lips, the pain is gone
Line 'em up and knock 'em down
The night goes on and on and on
To let me cope with this disaster
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haha thank you both for answering my question that i didnt have to ask =) this song is one of my favorites on the CD. The title alone is brilliant.. arent we all a victim of one vice or another, but the best lines i think "I'm not coming home tonight, i'd rather sleep on the street. Im not coming home to you, I WONT SLEEP WITH THE DEVIL"
its something i couldnt put into words my self but wish i could, because when i heard it i knew it was perfect. someone is obviously poisenous to your happiness and well being because they are destroying your trust and love. this girl is so obviously cheating on him, and hes finally starting to deal with that realization wich hes possibly been avoiding all along. hes gonna cope by drinking and trying to forget her... but he wins in the end just because he'd rahter sleep on the streets than go home to her. shes a life ruiner.