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"
Wasting time
All along you've just been wasting mine
Ignoring all the signs that point our way out of our prime
Draw the line
All this time your where just drawing mine
Only problem is I see no ends in sight of any kind
Well I can see you're waiting but I don't care
To fill this this whole place up with gasoline
And blow the top off this whole damn thing
Yea cause I don't care
(ew weh ew ew)
Cause I don't care
(ew weh ew ew)
The perfect crime
I just took what was yours and called it mine
Spent every night with fire in our eyes
Can you see it shine?
Lost in time
I'd give this all up for a chance to find
My way back to that summer in 2003 when I felt alive
Well I can see you're waiting but I don't care
To fill this this whole place up with gasoline
And blow the top off this whole damn thing
Yea cause I don't care
It was the first time
I didn't fall asleep until the sun came up
Cause we never ever had enough
It was the first time
That we could rush the streets
Feeling no defeat
Cause we where ready to ignite the sky
It was the last time
That I had the time of my life
Wasting time
All along you where just wasting mine
Ignoring all the signs that point their way out of our prime
Wasting time
All along you where just wasting mine
Ignoring all the signs that point their way out of our prime
Wasting time
All along you where just wasting mine
Ignoring all the signs that point their way out of our prime
Cause I don't care
All along you've just been wasting mine
Ignoring all the signs that point our way out of our prime
Draw the line
All this time your where just drawing mine
Only problem is I see no ends in sight of any kind
Well I can see you're waiting but I don't care
To fill this this whole place up with gasoline
And blow the top off this whole damn thing
Yea cause I don't care
(ew weh ew ew)
Cause I don't care
(ew weh ew ew)
The perfect crime
I just took what was yours and called it mine
Spent every night with fire in our eyes
Can you see it shine?
Lost in time
I'd give this all up for a chance to find
My way back to that summer in 2003 when I felt alive
Well I can see you're waiting but I don't care
To fill this this whole place up with gasoline
And blow the top off this whole damn thing
Yea cause I don't care
It was the first time
I didn't fall asleep until the sun came up
Cause we never ever had enough
It was the first time
That we could rush the streets
Feeling no defeat
Cause we where ready to ignite the sky
It was the last time
That I had the time of my life
Wasting time
All along you where just wasting mine
Ignoring all the signs that point their way out of our prime
Wasting time
All along you where just wasting mine
Ignoring all the signs that point their way out of our prime
Wasting time
All along you where just wasting mine
Ignoring all the signs that point their way out of our prime
Cause I don't care
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