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 color is fading from your face
Hold on, we'll get it back
Unless you don't want to replace it
We'll erase it
A new color is fading to your face
Hold on we'll push it back
Unless you want to embrace it
I'll just face it
So show me the world
Tell me that the colors I've been seeing
Are not while I was dreaming
Just show, show me your world
Tell me that the colors I've been needing
Are not the one's you're keeping away
There's something amiss
And I'm on to it
I'm onto you you
Tried on blue didn't you
Oh no oh no it's coming
That's the one color I can't see
Hold it or hold on to me
You tried on blue didn't you
Oh no oh no it's coming
So show me the world
Tell me that the colors I've been seeing
Are not while I was dreaming
Just show, show me your world
Tell me that the colors I've been needing
Are not the one's you're keeping away
Am I see through what's the use
If we were fading long ago
That's how it's gonna go
If you don't see me
Then you shouldn't be a part of my life
That's how it's gotta go
There's something missing from your eyes
It's killing off your smile
Keep pretending that you're fine
But you just lost your shine
So show me the world
Tell me that the colors I've been seeing
Are not while I was dreaming
Just show, show me your world
Tell me that the colors I've been needing
Are not the one's you're keeping away
Hold on, we'll get it back
Unless you don't want to replace it
We'll erase it
A new color is fading to your face
Hold on we'll push it back
Unless you want to embrace it
I'll just face it
So show me the world
Tell me that the colors I've been seeing
Are not while I was dreaming
Just show, show me your world
Tell me that the colors I've been needing
Are not the one's you're keeping away
There's something amiss
And I'm on to it
I'm onto you you
Tried on blue didn't you
Oh no oh no it's coming
That's the one color I can't see
Hold it or hold on to me
You tried on blue didn't you
Oh no oh no it's coming
So show me the world
Tell me that the colors I've been seeing
Are not while I was dreaming
Just show, show me your world
Tell me that the colors I've been needing
Are not the one's you're keeping away
Am I see through what's the use
If we were fading long ago
That's how it's gonna go
If you don't see me
Then you shouldn't be a part of my life
That's how it's gotta go
There's something missing from your eyes
It's killing off your smile
Keep pretending that you're fine
But you just lost your shine
So show me the world
Tell me that the colors I've been seeing
Are not while I was dreaming
Just show, show me your world
Tell me that the colors I've been needing
Are not the one's you're keeping away
Lyrics submitted by fantoma311
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