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"
We look past the obvious
We blind ourselves to the truth
No escape, resistance is futile
The old roads lead back home
A place where I belong
I lay my head where I lay my hat
(Affection, redemption)
A clenched fist screaming
There's pain and then there's living
Both make sense to those who're willing
And there's nothing left to say
We carry on, we carry
(Sacrifice, every day)
To make amends for the debt we pay
(This way)
An instrument of constant struggle
There's nothing left to regret
(A promise is a promise kept)
Whether history will forget
(To open up with friendly arms)
This wrench screaming
There's pain and then there's living
Both make sense to those who're willing
And there's nothing left to say
We carry on, we carry on
There's pain and then there's living
Both make sense to those who're willing
And there's nothing left to say
We carry on, we carry
We struggle every single day
Never giving up or giving in
No single sense of self-respect
We turn around and walk away
No sense of community
We fear each and everyday
Behind closed doors and closed minds
We shelter away from our lives
There's pain and then there's living
Both make sense to those who're willing
And there's nothing left to say
We carry on, we carry on
There's pain and then there's living
Both make sense to those who're willing
And there's nothing left to say
We carry on, we carry on
We carry on, we carry on
We carry, we carry on
We blind ourselves to the truth
No escape, resistance is futile
The old roads lead back home
A place where I belong
I lay my head where I lay my hat
(Affection, redemption)
A clenched fist screaming
There's pain and then there's living
Both make sense to those who're willing
And there's nothing left to say
We carry on, we carry
(Sacrifice, every day)
To make amends for the debt we pay
(This way)
An instrument of constant struggle
There's nothing left to regret
(A promise is a promise kept)
Whether history will forget
(To open up with friendly arms)
This wrench screaming
There's pain and then there's living
Both make sense to those who're willing
And there's nothing left to say
We carry on, we carry on
There's pain and then there's living
Both make sense to those who're willing
And there's nothing left to say
We carry on, we carry
We struggle every single day
Never giving up or giving in
No single sense of self-respect
We turn around and walk away
No sense of community
We fear each and everyday
Behind closed doors and closed minds
We shelter away from our lives
There's pain and then there's living
Both make sense to those who're willing
And there's nothing left to say
We carry on, we carry on
There's pain and then there's living
Both make sense to those who're willing
And there's nothing left to say
We carry on, we carry on
We carry on, we carry on
We carry, we carry on
Lyrics submitted by MichaelHutcheon
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