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"
I woke up beside you in the night afraid
When I was young I was always brave
I was going where the wind was born,
I don't know where that is anymore
Sometimes my heart feels so empty and mean,
No blanket could warm, no water could clean,
No direction on that same old wind
Could give me passage through
[Chorus]
Tell me something true
Tell me something true
I have lost my way but when I find it, I'll bring it to you
I've heard about sunshine and I know about May,
But it doesn't always work out that way
How do you give your heart back to the world
That's made a fool of you?
[Chorus]
Time's gonna come here so remiss,
He will forget my words, forget my kiss
If you want to love me, better take me like this,
I think the best that I can do is tell you something true
[Chorus]
When I was young I was always brave
I was going where the wind was born,
I don't know where that is anymore
Sometimes my heart feels so empty and mean,
No blanket could warm, no water could clean,
No direction on that same old wind
Could give me passage through
[Chorus]
Tell me something true
Tell me something true
I have lost my way but when I find it, I'll bring it to you
I've heard about sunshine and I know about May,
But it doesn't always work out that way
How do you give your heart back to the world
That's made a fool of you?
[Chorus]
Time's gonna come here so remiss,
He will forget my words, forget my kiss
If you want to love me, better take me like this,
I think the best that I can do is tell you something true
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by smallwonderrobot
Tell Me Something True Lyrics as written by Tift Merritt
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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