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"
Let me tell you something;
We're all tired of running
And we limp along to this song
We walk with a crutch
To hold us up through all of these dust-ups
And our legs they falter
We pray at the altar
Of too little too late
Hope to gain a new fate
Will it save our souls?
Will it lift us up?
Will it drag us down to the ground?
We walk with a crutch
But it's bending, we've written our ending
You've got a choice to make
There's walking with a crutch, standing tall
Or not standing at all
So stand for goodness sake
You'll never learn to stand up at all, a crutch breaking your fall
And we bite our nails and
Twisting nerves they tingle
The past rides our tails and
Parting words they mingle
Do they drift away?
Do they hold us up?
Do they drag us down to the ground?
We walk with a crutch
And clutched bibles with strength to crush rivals
And we're riding reckless
Time to hit the airbrakes
As we check our checklist
Off for things gone pear-shaped
Will they be resolved?
Will they lift us up?
Will they drag us down to the ground?
We walk with a crutch
'Cause it's easy when all feeling leaves me
You've got a choice to make
There's walking with a crutch, standing tall
Or not standing at all
So stand for goodness sake
You'll never learn to stand up at all, a crutch breaking your fall
We're all tired of running
And we limp along to this song
We walk with a crutch
To hold us up through all of these dust-ups
And our legs they falter
We pray at the altar
Of too little too late
Hope to gain a new fate
Will it save our souls?
Will it lift us up?
Will it drag us down to the ground?
We walk with a crutch
But it's bending, we've written our ending
You've got a choice to make
There's walking with a crutch, standing tall
Or not standing at all
So stand for goodness sake
You'll never learn to stand up at all, a crutch breaking your fall
And we bite our nails and
Twisting nerves they tingle
The past rides our tails and
Parting words they mingle
Do they drift away?
Do they hold us up?
Do they drag us down to the ground?
We walk with a crutch
And clutched bibles with strength to crush rivals
And we're riding reckless
Time to hit the airbrakes
As we check our checklist
Off for things gone pear-shaped
Will they be resolved?
Will they lift us up?
Will they drag us down to the ground?
We walk with a crutch
'Cause it's easy when all feeling leaves me
You've got a choice to make
There's walking with a crutch, standing tall
Or not standing at all
So stand for goodness sake
You'll never learn to stand up at all, a crutch breaking your fall
Lyrics submitted by lexicon devil
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crux of the lyrics:
"You've got a choice to make There's walking with a crutch, standing tall Or not standing at all"
Basically he is saying that the person needs to give 'it' their all, and stop relying on whatever their crutch is.