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"
Let the lit cigarette to your lips when it fits
Like the wound to your heart that it loathes
'Cause it wasn't always broke
Holding on so long to something that it loves
Like the hole in the yard that we dug so far
Then we left for so long and forgot
'Cause the grass had grown so tall
Erasing all we thought
When I get close I fall
You say, life has got you down
Steady course, we're breaking out
This isn't what you thought it was
I should have known this from the start
Hiked 20 miles of catacombs
And now you're with me in my heart
Looking on so far
Saying, "There, I've got you now."
It's the goals in your mind that you left behind
From the glass, he's a crutch on the path to always losing touch
If you blur it just enough, you might see what you want
Now the dirt from the yard blew away so far,
Growing more each day 'til we saw
It became a mountain range and I just stared and blinked,
Wishing I could change
Say, life has got you down
Set a course, you're breaking out
Find the will to make it now
Before our time runs out
Oh, you didn't want to go.
Been holding on so long.
And now I know you'll make it.
This isn't what you thought it was.
I should have known this from the start.
Hiked twenty miles of catacombs.
And now you're with me in my heart.
Looking on so far
Saying, "There, I've got you now."
Ohhh...
Why'd you have to go?
And why'd I wait so long?
Like the wound to your heart that it loathes
'Cause it wasn't always broke
Holding on so long to something that it loves
Like the hole in the yard that we dug so far
Then we left for so long and forgot
'Cause the grass had grown so tall
Erasing all we thought
When I get close I fall
You say, life has got you down
Steady course, we're breaking out
This isn't what you thought it was
I should have known this from the start
Hiked 20 miles of catacombs
And now you're with me in my heart
Looking on so far
Saying, "There, I've got you now."
It's the goals in your mind that you left behind
From the glass, he's a crutch on the path to always losing touch
If you blur it just enough, you might see what you want
Now the dirt from the yard blew away so far,
Growing more each day 'til we saw
It became a mountain range and I just stared and blinked,
Wishing I could change
Say, life has got you down
Set a course, you're breaking out
Find the will to make it now
Before our time runs out
Oh, you didn't want to go.
Been holding on so long.
And now I know you'll make it.
This isn't what you thought it was.
I should have known this from the start.
Hiked twenty miles of catacombs.
And now you're with me in my heart.
Looking on so far
Saying, "There, I've got you now."
Ohhh...
Why'd you have to go?
And why'd I wait so long?
Lyrics submitted by ellie117
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