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"
For a better tomorrow
Forget Remember When
Better not borrow
memories from them
There's a hole in tomorrow
So Forget Remember When
History Hollow
Carved out by them
Deep enough to fit
all of us in
How much time's wasted on
Words and thoughts I know are wrong
There isn't a choice except to stop
thinking there isn't a choice
How strange that there's rain,
but how could you have known?
x4
Forget Remember When
Better not borrow
memories from them
There's a hole in tomorrow
So Forget Remember When
History Hollow
Carved out by them
Deep enough to fit
all of us in
How much time's wasted on
Words and thoughts I know are wrong
There isn't a choice except to stop
thinking there isn't a choice
How strange that there's rain,
but how could you have known?
x4
Lyrics submitted by BobbyWest
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"There isn't a choice except to stop thinking there isn't a choice," (how amazing is this!?) We keep dwelling on the past and holding on to the hurt, and even the good stuff, but once again that doesn't allow for us to live today, does it? We assume we can't let go...and that thought process needs to be eliminated. We all have choice, he conveys.
I don't get the last bit really, perhaps he means unexpected things happen all the time? Like the rain--who could have seen it coming really? Therefore, how can we base anything (our lives?) of off the past's foundation? Or the rain could represent tears? I'd love to see any other thoughts on this, I'm probably way off.