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"
I'll call you when I can,
Please try to understand if, I decide
To take it slow.
Will you take me by the hand or find someone who can
Then come crawlin' back, when you're feelin' alone?
Let's take our time
And live our lives.
If you say you're unsure,
Don't call me to say "Good night."
Don't think that I'm, not on your side.
We spent the whole year in the same stupid fight.
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
You say you never wanted this to end,
But I'm hearing different from your friends.
Hey, if you relax, I'll take a day;
I'll take some time off.
But I never wanted it to be the way
It seems so sad and so misleading.
You're threatening to leave me
And lose everything we had.
Let's take our time
And live our lives.
If you say you're unsure,
Don't call me to say "Good night."
Don't think that I'm, not on your side.
We spent the whole year in the same stupid fight.
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
We're seeing differently:
You're losing everything, you had!
You try losing your heart, so fast.
But I'll get over you,
If it's what you wanna do...
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
Let's take our time (Let's take our time)
And live our lives. (And live our lives)
If you say you're unsure,
Don't call me to say "Good night."
Don't think that I'm, (Don't think that I'm)
Not on your side. (Not on your side.)
We spent the whole year in the same stupid fight.
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
Please try to understand if, I decide
To take it slow.
Will you take me by the hand or find someone who can
Then come crawlin' back, when you're feelin' alone?
Let's take our time
And live our lives.
If you say you're unsure,
Don't call me to say "Good night."
Don't think that I'm, not on your side.
We spent the whole year in the same stupid fight.
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
You say you never wanted this to end,
But I'm hearing different from your friends.
Hey, if you relax, I'll take a day;
I'll take some time off.
But I never wanted it to be the way
It seems so sad and so misleading.
You're threatening to leave me
And lose everything we had.
Let's take our time
And live our lives.
If you say you're unsure,
Don't call me to say "Good night."
Don't think that I'm, not on your side.
We spent the whole year in the same stupid fight.
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
We're seeing differently:
You're losing everything, you had!
You try losing your heart, so fast.
But I'll get over you,
If it's what you wanna do...
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
Let's take our time (Let's take our time)
And live our lives. (And live our lives)
If you say you're unsure,
Don't call me to say "Good night."
Don't think that I'm, (Don't think that I'm)
Not on your side. (Not on your side.)
We spent the whole year in the same stupid fight.
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
What did I do, did I do
To do this, to you?
Lyrics submitted by Kitkat152
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its about guy and his gf going seprate ways. He is saying that yeah he still has feelings but he know they are going seperate way...but still he'll try his best to keep in contact.. even though it was her decision to seperte. and the gf keeps trying to act the same, or come back to him. but she was the one who wanted to take time off.
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