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"
OK and by the way
I want to say that I think you're great, and
I know what people say
I'm a heart breaker, it's just my way
But you know how those rumors last
Always judged by what's in your past
But they're not true, that wasn't you
I want you, could it be that simple
I've tried all this before
Always thinking this one
This place, this dream, so sure
And I've often wondered
About what's on your mind
Thought I read your answer
Inside your shining eyes
It's you and by the way
I've never been this happy before you
It's normally not my way
But I get out the words I adore you
I look at you, your eyes are wet
You tell me you're not ready yet
To give it all, feel my heart fall
I want you, to me it's that simple
But you want to hold back
And it makes my whole world
Crash down, just feel so black
I remember wondering
About what's on your mind
But it seems your answer's
To just leave me behind
'cause I want you, to me it's that simple
But you want to hold back
And it makes my whole world
Crash down, just feel so black
I remember wondering
About what's on your mind
It seems I was fooled by
What lies behind your eyes
I want to say that I think you're great, and
I know what people say
I'm a heart breaker, it's just my way
But you know how those rumors last
Always judged by what's in your past
But they're not true, that wasn't you
I want you, could it be that simple
I've tried all this before
Always thinking this one
This place, this dream, so sure
And I've often wondered
About what's on your mind
Thought I read your answer
Inside your shining eyes
It's you and by the way
I've never been this happy before you
It's normally not my way
But I get out the words I adore you
I look at you, your eyes are wet
You tell me you're not ready yet
To give it all, feel my heart fall
I want you, to me it's that simple
But you want to hold back
And it makes my whole world
Crash down, just feel so black
I remember wondering
About what's on your mind
But it seems your answer's
To just leave me behind
'cause I want you, to me it's that simple
But you want to hold back
And it makes my whole world
Crash down, just feel so black
I remember wondering
About what's on your mind
It seems I was fooled by
What lies behind your eyes
Lyrics submitted by wildgelatin
By the Way Lyrics as written by Stephony Smith Cathy Majeski
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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