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"
Here we stand
Somewhere in between this moment and the end
Will we bend?
Or will we open up and take this whole thing in?
Everybody else is smiling and their smiles don't fade
And you don't even wonder why you just don't think that way
Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,
We can't move or we can't stay here
Well maybe we've just had enough,
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
You and me tried everything
But still that mocking bird wont sing
Well man this life seems hard enough
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
Take my hand
And I will lead you through the broken promise land
Yes I can, ah yes I can
I can be there when you need it,
I'll give it all till you can't feel it anymore
I don't wanna love you now,
If you'll just leave someday
I don't wanna turn around,
If you'll just walk away
Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,
We can't move or we can't stay here
Well maybe we've just had enough,
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
You and me tried everything
But still that mocking bird wont sing
Well man this life seems hard enough
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,
We can't move or we can't stay here
Well maybe we've just had enough,
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
You and me tried everything
But still that mocking bird wont sing
Well man this life seems hard enough
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
Maybe we ain't meant for this love
Maybe we ain't meant for this love
Somewhere in between this moment and the end
Will we bend?
Or will we open up and take this whole thing in?
Everybody else is smiling and their smiles don't fade
And you don't even wonder why you just don't think that way
Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,
We can't move or we can't stay here
Well maybe we've just had enough,
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
You and me tried everything
But still that mocking bird wont sing
Well man this life seems hard enough
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
Take my hand
And I will lead you through the broken promise land
Yes I can, ah yes I can
I can be there when you need it,
I'll give it all till you can't feel it anymore
I don't wanna love you now,
If you'll just leave someday
I don't wanna turn around,
If you'll just walk away
Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,
We can't move or we can't stay here
Well maybe we've just had enough,
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
You and me tried everything
But still that mocking bird wont sing
Well man this life seems hard enough
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,
We can't move or we can't stay here
Well maybe we've just had enough,
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
You and me tried everything
But still that mocking bird wont sing
Well man this life seems hard enough
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
Maybe we ain't meant for this love
Maybe we ain't meant for this love
Lyrics submitted by TeamAlphaDoG
Mockingbird Lyrics as written by Robert Thomas
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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