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 ain't gonna change you or ask you to explain
i ain't gonna chase you if you up and run away
i ain't gonna call you more than once a day
i ain't gonna question anything you have to say
maybe you're safe behind a little place inside your mind
so i won't try to take down that wall
i don't want to hold you up, i don't want to tie you down
i don't want to save you, dear, i don't need a queen right now
i don't want to to put your pretty finger in a ring
i don't want to promise you much of anything
i just want to hold your hand
i just want to kiss your face
now i won't ever stop you, or tell you what to do
i ain't gonna act like i've stood in both your shoes
i ain't gonna hurt you or say that i'm confused
i ain't gonna want you for anything but you
maybe you're safe behind a little place inside your mind
so i won't try to take down that wall
i don't want to hold you up, i don't want to tie you down
i don't want to save you, dear, i don't need a queen right now
i don't want to to put your pretty finger in a ring
i don't want to promise you much of anything
i just want to hold your hand
i just want to kiss your face
maybe you're safe behind a little place inside your mind
so i won't try to take down your wall
i don't want to hold you up, i don't want to tie you down
i don't want to save you, dear, you don't need a king right now
i don't want to to put your pretty finger in a ring
i don't want to promise you much of anything
i just want to hold your hand
i just want to kiss your face
i just want to lay you down
i just want to say your name
i just want to feel you there
i just want to play your game
i ain't gonna chase you if you up and run away
i ain't gonna call you more than once a day
i ain't gonna question anything you have to say
maybe you're safe behind a little place inside your mind
so i won't try to take down that wall
i don't want to hold you up, i don't want to tie you down
i don't want to save you, dear, i don't need a queen right now
i don't want to to put your pretty finger in a ring
i don't want to promise you much of anything
i just want to hold your hand
i just want to kiss your face
now i won't ever stop you, or tell you what to do
i ain't gonna act like i've stood in both your shoes
i ain't gonna hurt you or say that i'm confused
i ain't gonna want you for anything but you
maybe you're safe behind a little place inside your mind
so i won't try to take down that wall
i don't want to hold you up, i don't want to tie you down
i don't want to save you, dear, i don't need a queen right now
i don't want to to put your pretty finger in a ring
i don't want to promise you much of anything
i just want to hold your hand
i just want to kiss your face
maybe you're safe behind a little place inside your mind
so i won't try to take down your wall
i don't want to hold you up, i don't want to tie you down
i don't want to save you, dear, you don't need a king right now
i don't want to to put your pretty finger in a ring
i don't want to promise you much of anything
i just want to hold your hand
i just want to kiss your face
i just want to lay you down
i just want to say your name
i just want to feel you there
i just want to play your game
Lyrics submitted by kelliexo
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this song is beautiful, but not too hard to figure out what it's about
it is about a girl that he has strong feelings for, but doesnt want to move on, or furthermore they're relationship, but just wants to stay just where they are. he understands, and loves her to the point where he will wait until she is ready to move on.
there is something holding her back at this moment, but it also seems that there is also something holding him back, i believe part of the reason he is so willing to wait and stay just where he is, is because he likes where they are right now, and doesnt want to attempt or change anything that might mess it up.