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"
Now that we are over
As the loving kind
We'll be dreaming ways
To keep the good alive
Only when we want is not
A compromise
I'll be pouring tears
Into your drying eyes
Friends, lovers, or nothing
There can only be one
Friends, lovers, or nothing
There'll never be an in between
So give it up
You whisper "Come on over"
'Cause your two drinks in
But in the morning I will say
Good-bye again
Think we'll never fall into
The jealous game
The streets will flood
With blood of those who felt the same
Friends, lovers, or nothing
There can only be one
Friends, lovers, or nothing
There'll never be an in between
So give it up
Friends, lovers, or nothing
We can really only ever be one
Friends, lovers, or nothing
We'll never be the in between
So give it up
We'll never the in between
So give it up
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
As the loving kind
We'll be dreaming ways
To keep the good alive
Only when we want is not
A compromise
I'll be pouring tears
Into your drying eyes
Friends, lovers, or nothing
There can only be one
Friends, lovers, or nothing
There'll never be an in between
So give it up
You whisper "Come on over"
'Cause your two drinks in
But in the morning I will say
Good-bye again
Think we'll never fall into
The jealous game
The streets will flood
With blood of those who felt the same
Friends, lovers, or nothing
There can only be one
Friends, lovers, or nothing
There'll never be an in between
So give it up
Friends, lovers, or nothing
We can really only ever be one
Friends, lovers, or nothing
We'll never be the in between
So give it up
We'll never the in between
So give it up
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
Anything other than a yes is no
Anything other than stayin' is go
Anything less than I love you, is lying
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