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"
Everything will be ok
Just keep your eyes locked on the TV screen
Believe in every lie you see cause
Life is just a game we play
Where your free to work or free to die and
Everybody loses
Hope is just
Another word to us
A fucking joke just like the future
Truth is those that we were taught to follow
Led us to our graves
There was never anything here for us
To believe in
I'd rather die right now than never get a
Chance to feel alive
The closer to the edge we get the less I care
To change my mind
Not this time
We don't inherit the earth
It's borrowed from our kids
That means the messes we make
Get swept under their beds
So just keep taking those pills
To make it through the day
We're all just living the dream
The american way
I'd rather die right now than never get a
Chance to feel alive
The closer to the edge we get the less i care
To change my, will I change my, can we change our minds
Not this time
We need to wake up and start asking questions
Or just keep watching our lives pass us by
If we could just free our minds we would make it
Out of this nightmare and into a brand new day
I'd rather die right now than never get a
Chance to feel alive
The closer to the edge we get the less i care
To change my, will I change my, can we change our minds
Just keep your eyes locked on the TV screen
Believe in every lie you see cause
Life is just a game we play
Where your free to work or free to die and
Everybody loses
Hope is just
Another word to us
A fucking joke just like the future
Truth is those that we were taught to follow
Led us to our graves
There was never anything here for us
To believe in
I'd rather die right now than never get a
Chance to feel alive
The closer to the edge we get the less I care
To change my mind
Not this time
We don't inherit the earth
It's borrowed from our kids
That means the messes we make
Get swept under their beds
So just keep taking those pills
To make it through the day
We're all just living the dream
The american way
I'd rather die right now than never get a
Chance to feel alive
The closer to the edge we get the less i care
To change my, will I change my, can we change our minds
Not this time
We need to wake up and start asking questions
Or just keep watching our lives pass us by
If we could just free our minds we would make it
Out of this nightmare and into a brand new day
I'd rather die right now than never get a
Chance to feel alive
The closer to the edge we get the less i care
To change my, will I change my, can we change our minds
Lyrics submitted by DNDelli
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