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"
Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
Atomic bombs are going to explode
Warning to you, warning to you
Round up your cameras
Wind up your cameras, versus Evil, versus Evil
Round up your generals
Wind up your generals, versus Evil, versus Good
The barracks, Hollywood
Everyone, everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone, sing
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
Atomic bombs are going to explode
Warning to you, warning to you
Atomic bombs are going to explode
Warning to you, warning to you
Round up your cameras
Wind up your cameras, versus Evil, versus Evil
Round up your generals
Wind up your generals, versus Evil, versus Good
The barracks, Hollywood
Everyone, everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone, sing
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
Atomic bombs are going to explode
Warning to you, warning to you
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