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"
Split decisions, finding fixes
I test ride my memory
Tunnel vision, I give in and put
An end to make shifting relief
This game has got me shaking hands
With my own enemies
I see faces, but none of them
Not one believes in me
And at the end of the road
I'll hate to say I told you so
I don't need you to find resolve
Cause when it's said and done
Down to one
I'll hate to say I told you so
And as your promises dissolve
I'll get bragging rights
You'll realize that from day one
I always told you so
Go on living making killings
Off of all your broken dreams
I'll stay in within the out
And I bet you won't find one weak bone in me
It's been a long time coming
But no need for sympathy
I made my mind, I'll spend my time
Just making you believe
And at the end of the road
I'll hate to say I told you so
I don't need you to find resolve
Cause when it's said and done
Down to one
I'll hate to say I told you so
And as your promises dissolve
I'll get bragging rights
You'll realize that from day one
I always told you so
This doesn't sound like it's the best of me
But it feels so good to know what I've got
I found a remedy
Found me a fix for all these broken memories
Something to cure the sick and suffering
Cause I did what I wanted to
Rest assured, no more time to lose
I found a remedy
I don't need you to find resolve
Cause when it's said and done
Down to one
I'll hate to say I told you so
And as your promises dissolve
I'll get bragging rights
You'll realize that from day one
I always told you so (Cause I did what I wanted to)
I always told you so (No more time to waste)
I always told you so
I found a remedy
I test ride my memory
Tunnel vision, I give in and put
An end to make shifting relief
This game has got me shaking hands
With my own enemies
I see faces, but none of them
Not one believes in me
And at the end of the road
I'll hate to say I told you so
I don't need you to find resolve
Cause when it's said and done
Down to one
I'll hate to say I told you so
And as your promises dissolve
I'll get bragging rights
You'll realize that from day one
I always told you so
Go on living making killings
Off of all your broken dreams
I'll stay in within the out
And I bet you won't find one weak bone in me
It's been a long time coming
But no need for sympathy
I made my mind, I'll spend my time
Just making you believe
And at the end of the road
I'll hate to say I told you so
I don't need you to find resolve
Cause when it's said and done
Down to one
I'll hate to say I told you so
And as your promises dissolve
I'll get bragging rights
You'll realize that from day one
I always told you so
This doesn't sound like it's the best of me
But it feels so good to know what I've got
I found a remedy
Found me a fix for all these broken memories
Something to cure the sick and suffering
Cause I did what I wanted to
Rest assured, no more time to lose
I found a remedy
I don't need you to find resolve
Cause when it's said and done
Down to one
I'll hate to say I told you so
And as your promises dissolve
I'll get bragging rights
You'll realize that from day one
I always told you so (Cause I did what I wanted to)
I always told you so (No more time to waste)
I always told you so
I found a remedy
Lyrics submitted by Ayyogetlow
The Remedy Lyrics as written by Christopher Joseph Kamrada Christian Alan Climer
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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