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"
We've been a burden though we were kept alive.
By the ones we've forsaken, by the ones at our side.
The truth we've found is out there lost in everything.
We can show the way for the wandering.
When we're young we're so naive.
It never ends unless you seek the beauty hidden underneath.
It never ends unless you seek (it never ends unless you seek).
It never ends unless you seek, you'll find out who you are.
It's easy to see we're running out of time.
The walls are collapsing.
They're coming down on me (coming down coming down).
And nothing's as it seems.
This world is in ruins you can't believe what you see.
Don't you see, don't you see?
Don't you desire to see the truth?
This is what you wanted.
This is what you needed.
This is what you wanted.
This is what you needed.
Truth is out there, just believe.
Truth is out there, just believe.
It's easy to see we're running out of time.
The walls are collapsing.
They're coming down on me (coming down, coming down).
And nothing's as it seems.
This world is in ruins you can't believe what you see.
Don't you see, don't you see?
This world is over!
This world is over!
This world is over!
This world is over!
By the ones we've forsaken, by the ones at our side.
The truth we've found is out there lost in everything.
We can show the way for the wandering.
When we're young we're so naive.
It never ends unless you seek the beauty hidden underneath.
It never ends unless you seek (it never ends unless you seek).
It never ends unless you seek, you'll find out who you are.
It's easy to see we're running out of time.
The walls are collapsing.
They're coming down on me (coming down coming down).
And nothing's as it seems.
This world is in ruins you can't believe what you see.
Don't you see, don't you see?
Don't you desire to see the truth?
This is what you wanted.
This is what you needed.
This is what you wanted.
This is what you needed.
Truth is out there, just believe.
Truth is out there, just believe.
It's easy to see we're running out of time.
The walls are collapsing.
They're coming down on me (coming down, coming down).
And nothing's as it seems.
This world is in ruins you can't believe what you see.
Don't you see, don't you see?
This world is over!
This world is over!
This world is over!
This world is over!
Lyrics submitted by DanielFknDisaster
Dream Catcher Lyrics as written by Anthony John Jr. Pizzuti Anthony Pizzuti
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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