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"
Well they scratched at my shoulder and they ripped at my shirt
I went back inside and I got seen by some nurse
We keep getting troubled by these street level struggles
I just wanna be untouchable
U.S. ingenuity, Canadian security
British amplifiers, point to point technology
They showed up in the dressing room and pretty much surrounded me
I just wanna be untouchable
I saw you coming at me
I assumed you would attack me
Didn't seem like you were coming in peace
You came too close too quick
You put your nails in my neck
You cried when they asked you to leave
You shoulda gone touchless
Waking up at 2:00
Rolling through the night
Sound check ritual blocking out the light
Looking to the mezzanine to show some signs of life
I don't wanna seem unreachable
I saw you coming at me
I assumed you would attack me
Didn't know if you're a friend or a freak
You came too close too quick
You put your nails in my neck
You cried when they asked you to leave
You shoulda gone touchless
You gotta watch what you wish for
You gotta watch what you wish for
The bouncers are bracing for action up front
Everybody's wound pretty tight
It always seems to start when somebody takes a bottle outside
When I saw you coming at me
I assumed you would attack me
Didn't seem like you were coming in peace
You came too close too quick
You put your nails in my neck
You cried when they asked you to leave
You shoulda gone touchless
You gotta watch what you wish for
You shoulda gone touchless
You gotta watch what you wish for
I went back inside and I got seen by some nurse
We keep getting troubled by these street level struggles
I just wanna be untouchable
U.S. ingenuity, Canadian security
British amplifiers, point to point technology
They showed up in the dressing room and pretty much surrounded me
I just wanna be untouchable
I saw you coming at me
I assumed you would attack me
Didn't seem like you were coming in peace
You came too close too quick
You put your nails in my neck
You cried when they asked you to leave
You shoulda gone touchless
Waking up at 2:00
Rolling through the night
Sound check ritual blocking out the light
Looking to the mezzanine to show some signs of life
I don't wanna seem unreachable
I saw you coming at me
I assumed you would attack me
Didn't know if you're a friend or a freak
You came too close too quick
You put your nails in my neck
You cried when they asked you to leave
You shoulda gone touchless
You gotta watch what you wish for
You gotta watch what you wish for
The bouncers are bracing for action up front
Everybody's wound pretty tight
It always seems to start when somebody takes a bottle outside
When I saw you coming at me
I assumed you would attack me
Didn't seem like you were coming in peace
You came too close too quick
You put your nails in my neck
You cried when they asked you to leave
You shoulda gone touchless
You gotta watch what you wish for
You shoulda gone touchless
You gotta watch what you wish for
Lyrics submitted by sigmalives
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