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"
Jered Stuffco came to my show||
It was Sunday, that’s nice of him||
That boy lives in Toronto||
He now goes to Ryerson||
That’s his life, we’re proud of him||
Changes to administer||
Vulture Voltaire hates city cops||
I just think they’re sinister||
Reid moved west cause he lost his girl||
It seems a lot less like coincidence||
Jon goes to Van, his house destroyed||
He makes good on a friend’s influence||
They build a condo there as we speak||
Simple mathematics, simple mathematic||
We go up and we go out||
It’ll take a few hours on the mass transit||
Hilary picked up, Ben Good is my friend||
She’s been so close to many of them||
Don’t think big, I been disciplined||
It’s got more people but the city is thin||
A couple rock kids ask about the scene||
There won’t be one if you aren’t around||
Cam fell in love, then Eme shipped out||
Cause at the cool shows, they don’t wanna get down||
[Chorus x4]
I wonder why we move away
I wonder, I wonder
Friends talk shit, what’s keeping you here||
Got a brand new beat, I soaked it in beer||
The missing chromosome is the last record dropped||
You fucks shit talk without doing homework||
I’m getting kinda tired of defending myself||
So I’ll stop right now, see, look at me||
We got a forest in the middle of the town||
I’ve lived enough places to know what I see||
East Hastings will destroy you||
And Montreal scene is the cool thing up||
But if I hear the question in another interview||
You might be the very first one I fuck up||
U Haul trucks that you haul up||
Drive away the friends I knew||
Move away cause they expect it||
Move cause they’ll ask you to||
[Chorus x4]
It was Sunday, that’s nice of him||
That boy lives in Toronto||
He now goes to Ryerson||
That’s his life, we’re proud of him||
Changes to administer||
Vulture Voltaire hates city cops||
I just think they’re sinister||
Reid moved west cause he lost his girl||
It seems a lot less like coincidence||
Jon goes to Van, his house destroyed||
He makes good on a friend’s influence||
They build a condo there as we speak||
Simple mathematics, simple mathematic||
We go up and we go out||
It’ll take a few hours on the mass transit||
Hilary picked up, Ben Good is my friend||
She’s been so close to many of them||
Don’t think big, I been disciplined||
It’s got more people but the city is thin||
A couple rock kids ask about the scene||
There won’t be one if you aren’t around||
Cam fell in love, then Eme shipped out||
Cause at the cool shows, they don’t wanna get down||
[Chorus x4]
I wonder why we move away
I wonder, I wonder
Friends talk shit, what’s keeping you here||
Got a brand new beat, I soaked it in beer||
The missing chromosome is the last record dropped||
You fucks shit talk without doing homework||
I’m getting kinda tired of defending myself||
So I’ll stop right now, see, look at me||
We got a forest in the middle of the town||
I’ve lived enough places to know what I see||
East Hastings will destroy you||
And Montreal scene is the cool thing up||
But if I hear the question in another interview||
You might be the very first one I fuck up||
U Haul trucks that you haul up||
Drive away the friends I knew||
Move away cause they expect it||
Move cause they’ll ask you to||
[Chorus x4]
Lyrics submitted by fattonyrap
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