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"
you remember that night when we said we'd last forever
no matter what happens we will go on together
it seemed so real i trusted you meant it
what happened because i dont understand where all of that passion went
i dont know maybe it just wasnt meant to be
but i want you to know that it meant everything to me
i thought that you were being honest with me the past two years
what changed so recently to make you change your mind?
i just wish that i could understand it from your perspective
but you dont respect me enough to let me know.
which really sucks because you know i would of done anything for you
anything all you had to do was ask.
i will hate forever how this ended
and i have given you every opportunity to explain yourself you just dont feel the need
it must be greed but i thought you were better then that
maybe i was wrong, maybe i was wrong
as we walk along this park.
it is where it happened
and i cant talk
but you seem so fine
and i am by your side
please show me a sign
and then you blow, off your plans
just to be with me
i dont understand
how you seem so fine
like everything's alright
forget the other night
maybe i wasnt ready to see you yet
maybe it is just to soon to forget
but why did you kiss me?
why did you kiss me repeatedly
and then you say that you regret
everything that you just did
this doesnt help my head
its hard to sleep with all this stress
maybe i wasnt ready to see you yet
maybe it is just to soon to forgive
but why did you kiss me?
why did you kiss me repeatedly
please quit playing with my head
cuz i dont get it
but you seem fine with everything
meanwhile i am fighting to breathe
please stop doing this to me
i beg please just use honesty
thats all i need, just be honest with me.
what you did to me was horrible, yeah
but that doesnt mean that everything
that came before it has disappeared
our memories will remain forever
it does no good trying to forget these things
lets just remember the good times
as we move on to another path
Its makes the most sense
we have no more time for being bitter
atleast i don't.
even though i still wish that you would
apologize for how you dealt with this.
you have to realize that you were wrong
i mean dont you?
you cant possibly think that that was the mature way to handle the situation
but then again i cant say that you should.
no matter what happens we will go on together
it seemed so real i trusted you meant it
what happened because i dont understand where all of that passion went
i dont know maybe it just wasnt meant to be
but i want you to know that it meant everything to me
i thought that you were being honest with me the past two years
what changed so recently to make you change your mind?
i just wish that i could understand it from your perspective
but you dont respect me enough to let me know.
which really sucks because you know i would of done anything for you
anything all you had to do was ask.
i will hate forever how this ended
and i have given you every opportunity to explain yourself you just dont feel the need
it must be greed but i thought you were better then that
maybe i was wrong, maybe i was wrong
as we walk along this park.
it is where it happened
and i cant talk
but you seem so fine
and i am by your side
please show me a sign
and then you blow, off your plans
just to be with me
i dont understand
how you seem so fine
like everything's alright
forget the other night
maybe i wasnt ready to see you yet
maybe it is just to soon to forget
but why did you kiss me?
why did you kiss me repeatedly
and then you say that you regret
everything that you just did
this doesnt help my head
its hard to sleep with all this stress
maybe i wasnt ready to see you yet
maybe it is just to soon to forgive
but why did you kiss me?
why did you kiss me repeatedly
please quit playing with my head
cuz i dont get it
but you seem fine with everything
meanwhile i am fighting to breathe
please stop doing this to me
i beg please just use honesty
thats all i need, just be honest with me.
what you did to me was horrible, yeah
but that doesnt mean that everything
that came before it has disappeared
our memories will remain forever
it does no good trying to forget these things
lets just remember the good times
as we move on to another path
Its makes the most sense
we have no more time for being bitter
atleast i don't.
even though i still wish that you would
apologize for how you dealt with this.
you have to realize that you were wrong
i mean dont you?
you cant possibly think that that was the mature way to handle the situation
but then again i cant say that you should.
Lyrics submitted by dottommytm
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