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"
So here I am in this world but why was I born?
So a person can profit as my structured frame is worn
The beginning was at school encouraged with your career
With no ambition in this life is what mother and father fear
They want you to be their admired child, progress, and be someone
And the expectations that they enforce carefully divert you from the scum
Don't let them use your chance as their second time round
They chose to waste their life away, not yours into the ground
From prime to pension it's the fighting struggle for success
From the backbone of the factory to the early retirement seems, nothing more nothing less
Living in the illusion of taking part and working well
Clouds the sweating stamp on you - youre an object to use and sell
Youre living in no more awareness then the product that you make
For people are moulding your thought and skills until youve nothing left to stake
Striving to survive grateful for the little that sees you through
The bosses laughing in their wealth, the wealth that is created by you
And the rewards for your service are never too high
Perhaps a gold watch will help me see those last few years go by...
Before I die.
So a person can profit as my structured frame is worn
The beginning was at school encouraged with your career
With no ambition in this life is what mother and father fear
They want you to be their admired child, progress, and be someone
And the expectations that they enforce carefully divert you from the scum
Don't let them use your chance as their second time round
They chose to waste their life away, not yours into the ground
From prime to pension it's the fighting struggle for success
From the backbone of the factory to the early retirement seems, nothing more nothing less
Living in the illusion of taking part and working well
Clouds the sweating stamp on you - youre an object to use and sell
Youre living in no more awareness then the product that you make
For people are moulding your thought and skills until youve nothing left to stake
Striving to survive grateful for the little that sees you through
The bosses laughing in their wealth, the wealth that is created by you
And the rewards for your service are never too high
Perhaps a gold watch will help me see those last few years go by...
Before I die.
Lyrics submitted by LittlePuppet
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