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"
Feel free, write your scathing indictment
Pick us apart with your joke of a pen
Pacified poet, standing alone you know it
I hear you preaching
"Do it again, won't you please do it again?"
Plenty of time, hear the hypocrites whine
Pathetic business
Take it, test it, know it, burn it
It's all a game you play so mealy mouthed
At the trough we lay
I hear you pleading
"Do it again, won't you please do it again?"
Take it all upon you now
Make you mark somehow
And keep it going
With illusions that you're real
And phrases that you'll steal
At your best you'll drag them down
I've heard it all before
It's all been said before
Extending all an invitation
Welcome to the critic's carnival-
Where writers think they know more than you
No, don't be a fool at critic's carnival
A bully pulpit built to spin a phrase
Will pitch a sermon for you
If you've got the money to pay at the
critic's carnival
Buy fifty dollar words, try bullshit
No, don't be deceived at critic's carnival
Invite us to your ivory tower
Impress me with your
Insightful gift of genius
Yes, you can dish it out
A coward too much clout
Hungry for power
Do it again - won't you please do it again?
Monday morning's last draft quarterback
Get it right get it wrong
We've just dragged on too long
It's all a game you play
So mealy mouthed at the through we lay
I know you hear me!
Do it again won't you please do it again?
Well?
Pick us apart with your joke of a pen
Pacified poet, standing alone you know it
I hear you preaching
"Do it again, won't you please do it again?"
Plenty of time, hear the hypocrites whine
Pathetic business
Take it, test it, know it, burn it
It's all a game you play so mealy mouthed
At the trough we lay
I hear you pleading
"Do it again, won't you please do it again?"
Take it all upon you now
Make you mark somehow
And keep it going
With illusions that you're real
And phrases that you'll steal
At your best you'll drag them down
I've heard it all before
It's all been said before
Extending all an invitation
Welcome to the critic's carnival-
Where writers think they know more than you
No, don't be a fool at critic's carnival
A bully pulpit built to spin a phrase
Will pitch a sermon for you
If you've got the money to pay at the
critic's carnival
Buy fifty dollar words, try bullshit
No, don't be deceived at critic's carnival
Invite us to your ivory tower
Impress me with your
Insightful gift of genius
Yes, you can dish it out
A coward too much clout
Hungry for power
Do it again - won't you please do it again?
Monday morning's last draft quarterback
Get it right get it wrong
We've just dragged on too long
It's all a game you play
So mealy mouthed at the through we lay
I know you hear me!
Do it again won't you please do it again?
Well?
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