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"
I said, my friend, at the end of the day
I feel like the end of the road
He said hey, my friend, I feel your pain
Do you really think you're alone?
I said it feels like it, and I gotta say
I see myself not being around
But I see you every day, all discontent and dismay
And I'm thanking god for disillusioned frowns
If you want me to yell,
I'll yell for you
If you want me to cry,
Baby, I'll cry
Cause I never knew you felt this way
When you say you do, I don't wanna die
Neither of us is blind
I will stand for you if you'll stand for me
Free the hero inside and leave Nero behind
We need a call to arms
Every friday at ten
We can meet at the malls
Cause that's where we'll find them
Bring your scars
And your rebel yells
When they run for their cars
We can tell 'em all where to go
(To hell)
If you want me to yell,
I'll yell for you
If you want me to cry,
Baby, I'll cry
Cause I never knew you felt this way
When you say you do, I don't wanna die
Neither of us is blind
I will stand for you if you'll stand for me
Free the hero inside and leave Nero behind
So just speak your mind
And we can turn the tide
They say that freedom has died
But buddy, we're still alive
So just laugh at their lies
Don't let 'em act so snide
All that you need is inside
So leave Nero behind
Leave Nero behind
I feel like the end of the road
He said hey, my friend, I feel your pain
Do you really think you're alone?
I said it feels like it, and I gotta say
I see myself not being around
But I see you every day, all discontent and dismay
And I'm thanking god for disillusioned frowns
If you want me to yell,
I'll yell for you
If you want me to cry,
Baby, I'll cry
Cause I never knew you felt this way
When you say you do, I don't wanna die
Neither of us is blind
I will stand for you if you'll stand for me
Free the hero inside and leave Nero behind
We need a call to arms
Every friday at ten
We can meet at the malls
Cause that's where we'll find them
Bring your scars
And your rebel yells
When they run for their cars
We can tell 'em all where to go
(To hell)
If you want me to yell,
I'll yell for you
If you want me to cry,
Baby, I'll cry
Cause I never knew you felt this way
When you say you do, I don't wanna die
Neither of us is blind
I will stand for you if you'll stand for me
Free the hero inside and leave Nero behind
So just speak your mind
And we can turn the tide
They say that freedom has died
But buddy, we're still alive
So just laugh at their lies
Don't let 'em act so snide
All that you need is inside
So leave Nero behind
Leave Nero behind
Lyrics submitted by a_melancholy_soul
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