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"
When there was another one
I couldn't clear my head for you
Now we're in that other zone
You're curling up and turning blue
Shut up bitch, now please don't cry
I was only trying to help you see
I hope you got another eye
To fill the socket left by me
Why is it so
Hard to understand why I fled?
I feel the time has
Come to forget what we have bred
Rattling my chains in despair
Knowing that you hold the key
Wish I could just grow a pair
Take what I know is good for me
Baking on your asphalt bed
Walking eggshells on your karma parole
Ain't just your face that's turning red
Now you know you have no soul
Why is it so
Hard to understand what I said?
I feel the time has
Come to scrape yourself out of bed
In a million years
I swear I'll be right here
Tied to this tree
Still waiting for your disease
Now I'm not the only one
You're spinning in your candy web
Yeah, I think I touched the sun
Or maybe I just touched your head
Addicted to the pain that comes
From breaking myself over again
Take a breath and have some fun
One of these days you will be dead
Why is it so
Hard to understand what I said?
If you open
Your other eye you'll see he fled
In a million years
I swear I'll be right here
Tied to this tree
Still waiting for your disease
Stillborn, searching
Under cover of the dark
Wasted and cold
I think I'll need another shot
With you I knew
It was always meant to be
How else could you
Drive me so fucking crazy?
I couldn't clear my head for you
Now we're in that other zone
You're curling up and turning blue
Shut up bitch, now please don't cry
I was only trying to help you see
I hope you got another eye
To fill the socket left by me
Why is it so
Hard to understand why I fled?
I feel the time has
Come to forget what we have bred
Rattling my chains in despair
Knowing that you hold the key
Wish I could just grow a pair
Take what I know is good for me
Baking on your asphalt bed
Walking eggshells on your karma parole
Ain't just your face that's turning red
Now you know you have no soul
Why is it so
Hard to understand what I said?
I feel the time has
Come to scrape yourself out of bed
In a million years
I swear I'll be right here
Tied to this tree
Still waiting for your disease
Now I'm not the only one
You're spinning in your candy web
Yeah, I think I touched the sun
Or maybe I just touched your head
Addicted to the pain that comes
From breaking myself over again
Take a breath and have some fun
One of these days you will be dead
Why is it so
Hard to understand what I said?
If you open
Your other eye you'll see he fled
In a million years
I swear I'll be right here
Tied to this tree
Still waiting for your disease
Stillborn, searching
Under cover of the dark
Wasted and cold
I think I'll need another shot
With you I knew
It was always meant to be
How else could you
Drive me so fucking crazy?
Lyrics submitted by SludgeGarden13
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