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"
It's never easy to face yourself
Everyday, through the fog of shrouded memories
It's never easy to face your past
Everyday, through the haze of the aftermath
Yeah
It's never easy to admit
That you've faltered and fallen
You can't do this alone
That you can't do this all alone
I've felt the fear in your eyes
I've slipped into that void
And I've felt the cold of the morning
And I know
It's never easy to admit
That you've faltered and fallen
And you can't do this alone
Down in that void buried so deep
Searching for love but not for sleep
Just know that nothing's set in stone
And I know how some others won't
The cold steel and regret
The failure and remorse
Just trying to tell you
You're not here alone
OH
We're all in this together
Shining bright through the fog
Filling the skies with our light
With our light, with our light
It's never easy to admit
That you've faltered and fallen
And you can't do this alone
Down in that void buried so deep
Searching for love but not for sleep
Just know that nothing's set in stone
Don't be the one
To bear the weight of the world
While that world passes by
It's never easy to admit
That you've faltered
That you've fallen
I'm just trying to tell you
That you aren't here alone
It's never easy to admit
That you've faltered and fallen
And you can't do this alone
Down in that void buried so deep
Searching for love but not for sleep
Just know that nothing's set in stone
We're all in this together
Shining bright through the fog
We're all in this together
Everyday, through the fog of shrouded memories
It's never easy to face your past
Everyday, through the haze of the aftermath
Yeah
It's never easy to admit
That you've faltered and fallen
You can't do this alone
That you can't do this all alone
I've felt the fear in your eyes
I've slipped into that void
And I've felt the cold of the morning
And I know
It's never easy to admit
That you've faltered and fallen
And you can't do this alone
Down in that void buried so deep
Searching for love but not for sleep
Just know that nothing's set in stone
And I know how some others won't
The cold steel and regret
The failure and remorse
Just trying to tell you
You're not here alone
OH
We're all in this together
Shining bright through the fog
Filling the skies with our light
With our light, with our light
It's never easy to admit
That you've faltered and fallen
And you can't do this alone
Down in that void buried so deep
Searching for love but not for sleep
Just know that nothing's set in stone
Don't be the one
To bear the weight of the world
While that world passes by
It's never easy to admit
That you've faltered
That you've fallen
I'm just trying to tell you
That you aren't here alone
It's never easy to admit
That you've faltered and fallen
And you can't do this alone
Down in that void buried so deep
Searching for love but not for sleep
Just know that nothing's set in stone
We're all in this together
Shining bright through the fog
We're all in this together
Lyrics submitted by youngbloods
R.I.P Foghorn Lyrics as written by Trad Nathan Joel Fletcher Birch
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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