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"
Oh no, I did it again
Don't look now, but I lost a fried
It might have been me but I think it was him
Makes me think I never had a friend
You wake up one morning and you're doing fine
Next thing you know,
You're saying that it happens all the time
You wake up one morning and you're doing good
Next thing you know,
You're thinking about the things you didn't say but should
Oh no, I did it again
Don't look now, but I lost a fried
It might have been me but I think it was him
Makes me think I never had a friend
She wakes up one morning and finally sees
There's something wrong
You know it's not the way it was supposed to be
She falls asleep wondering about the world
And how it's strange, she didn't want to see the worst about the girl
Oh no, I did it again
Don't look now, but I lost a fried
It might have been me but I think it was him
Makes me think I never had a friend
But that's how it goes sometimes
It's not so great, but you think it's fine
I can't ignore the signs
It must be your's because it sure ain't mine
Oh no, I did it again
Don't look now, but I lost a fried
It might have been me but I think it was him
Makes me think I never had a friend
Don't look now, but I lost a fried
It might have been me but I think it was him
Makes me think I never had a friend
You wake up one morning and you're doing fine
Next thing you know,
You're saying that it happens all the time
You wake up one morning and you're doing good
Next thing you know,
You're thinking about the things you didn't say but should
Oh no, I did it again
Don't look now, but I lost a fried
It might have been me but I think it was him
Makes me think I never had a friend
She wakes up one morning and finally sees
There's something wrong
You know it's not the way it was supposed to be
She falls asleep wondering about the world
And how it's strange, she didn't want to see the worst about the girl
Oh no, I did it again
Don't look now, but I lost a fried
It might have been me but I think it was him
Makes me think I never had a friend
But that's how it goes sometimes
It's not so great, but you think it's fine
I can't ignore the signs
It must be your's because it sure ain't mine
Oh no, I did it again
Don't look now, but I lost a fried
It might have been me but I think it was him
Makes me think I never had a friend
Lyrics submitted by greatdisintegration
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