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’m tossing and turning’
Can’t sleep for the life of me
I’m wondering and worrying
Will I get to sleep before to long
Come on tell me where it is and where I’ve got to find
Give me R.E.M. the doctor can’t relieve my mind
Get myself to sleep!
Shut eye, Shut eye, I need
I’m counting Sheep, I’m counting Sheep
Awake!
Because I can’t get to sleep
No, no I can’t get to sleep
I need my z’s, I need my z’s
I can’t Sleep No, No, No
Help my get my Z’s
The TV is talking
Keeping me from what I need
It’s taunting and teasing
Your out of shape in need of cash,
Only $19.95 you’ll get your life on track
Satisfactions guaranteed or get your money back
Bridge rhyme
Lets go snack ina Blackberry Patch
Make Earth shake
w/a side show laugh
Why I gotta wake
to a world so whack?
Gotta goto work rat race run laps
like ants on a hill
when my sands are spilled
when I catch every grain
but my hands are filled
schedule my day
but my plans are killed
by the pledges I made that I
that I can't fulfill
this sheep wants to be shampooed
that sheep wants his weekend food
this sheep's young and he can't run
that sheep's old and he can't move
all these sheep with their stress
and tenseness
hop & a leap & my best defenses
when I rest my lenses
but I can't sleep
till I get 'em all together
and collect my census
I’m tossing and turning’
Can’t sleep for the life of me
I’m wondering and worrying
Will I get to sleep before to long
Send some slumber
Put me under
So that I can Snooze
Enter Sandman,
R.E.M, man,
is what I could use.
Can’t sleep for the life of me
I’m wondering and worrying
Will I get to sleep before to long
Come on tell me where it is and where I’ve got to find
Give me R.E.M. the doctor can’t relieve my mind
Get myself to sleep!
Shut eye, Shut eye, I need
I’m counting Sheep, I’m counting Sheep
Awake!
Because I can’t get to sleep
No, no I can’t get to sleep
I need my z’s, I need my z’s
I can’t Sleep No, No, No
Help my get my Z’s
The TV is talking
Keeping me from what I need
It’s taunting and teasing
Your out of shape in need of cash,
Only $19.95 you’ll get your life on track
Satisfactions guaranteed or get your money back
Bridge rhyme
Lets go snack ina Blackberry Patch
Make Earth shake
w/a side show laugh
Why I gotta wake
to a world so whack?
Gotta goto work rat race run laps
like ants on a hill
when my sands are spilled
when I catch every grain
but my hands are filled
schedule my day
but my plans are killed
by the pledges I made that I
that I can't fulfill
this sheep wants to be shampooed
that sheep wants his weekend food
this sheep's young and he can't run
that sheep's old and he can't move
all these sheep with their stress
and tenseness
hop & a leap & my best defenses
when I rest my lenses
but I can't sleep
till I get 'em all together
and collect my census
I’m tossing and turning’
Can’t sleep for the life of me
I’m wondering and worrying
Will I get to sleep before to long
Send some slumber
Put me under
So that I can Snooze
Enter Sandman,
R.E.M, man,
is what I could use.
Lyrics submitted by emopop
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