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"
What is it that you see in me?
Do you expect me to just agree?
Well I can't and I'm sorry,
But nothing means anything to me.
I can tell you who I am, but you just won't understand.
Never even had a chance to fall feet firist when I land.
You probably don't blame me at all,
But you will when you finally fall.
Everything I do is wrong, just listen to the fucking song.
You don't know how I am, you're blinded cause I'm your friend.
You'll see soon enough, your faith was just too much.
Think I'm giving up this time think I'm giving up this time.
Think I'm giving up this time this I'm giving up this time.
I lost my ambition when I swallowed my pride,
I have nothing to lose, losing my will to live.
Do you expect me to just agree?
Well I can't and I'm sorry,
But nothing means anything to me.
I can tell you who I am, but you just won't understand.
Never even had a chance to fall feet firist when I land.
You probably don't blame me at all,
But you will when you finally fall.
Everything I do is wrong, just listen to the fucking song.
You don't know how I am, you're blinded cause I'm your friend.
You'll see soon enough, your faith was just too much.
Think I'm giving up this time think I'm giving up this time.
Think I'm giving up this time this I'm giving up this time.
I lost my ambition when I swallowed my pride,
I have nothing to lose, losing my will to live.
Lyrics submitted by theminustimes
Who I Am Lyrics as written by Richard S Sambora Marti Frederiksen
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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