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"
something is off do you feel it today
even the clocks strike a minute too late
but i try
to make it on time
i miss the bus so i’m walking to school
i miss the chance to catch up too
i missed you
i came to visit but you’d just gone away
i bought a rose but you had a bouquet
i still try
to make it on time
like the constellations up in the sky
they’ll never see the morning light
like you and i
i sit and wait here
playing house in my mind
you’re running late dear
or am i off on the time
chorus
what could have been
makes me stay
it’s so fucked up
i’m just a minute too late
but i’ll keep making the bed for two
i’ll keep making the bed for you
there is a local garden on crescent heights
you would have loved it if you’d been by my side
i still try
to make it on time
i heard a waltz it remind me of you
when we were dancing in that half lit room
i sit and wait here
playing house in my mind
you’re running late dear
or am i off on the time
what could have been
makes me stay
it’s so fucked up
i’m just a minute too late
but i’ll keep making the bed for two
i’ll keep making the bed for you
even the clocks strike a minute too late
but i try
to make it on time
i miss the bus so i’m walking to school
i miss the chance to catch up too
i missed you
i came to visit but you’d just gone away
i bought a rose but you had a bouquet
i still try
to make it on time
like the constellations up in the sky
they’ll never see the morning light
like you and i
i sit and wait here
playing house in my mind
you’re running late dear
or am i off on the time
chorus
what could have been
makes me stay
it’s so fucked up
i’m just a minute too late
but i’ll keep making the bed for two
i’ll keep making the bed for you
there is a local garden on crescent heights
you would have loved it if you’d been by my side
i still try
to make it on time
i heard a waltz it remind me of you
when we were dancing in that half lit room
i sit and wait here
playing house in my mind
you’re running late dear
or am i off on the time
what could have been
makes me stay
it’s so fucked up
i’m just a minute too late
but i’ll keep making the bed for two
i’ll keep making the bed for you
Lyrics submitted by cucci67
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