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"
Just a list of things I'd do if I could fly
Oh I would fly straight to the moon
To bring the sands back here to you
And we'd make castles where we'd spend our days
And rooms that last eternities
And perfect cracks get fixed with ease
And if it falls apart faster than we had planned
We'll plan for something else
Doesn't matter if it's raining or it's dark
You'll be my something else
The only else cared for you are
And if I prayed for one more thing it would be time
Just a second I could pause
Just one more minute at exhaust
'Cause on the list of everything I need
There's air but first there's you and me
There's love and love your everything
'Cause I've had dreams where we collected
All the clocks and put them all to bed
Because here inside this moment there is us
There need be nothing else
This is something I've wished for
If I had to walk the earth a thousand times
I'd do it 'cause I love you
Because if you said I had to
I would know it to be true
And I would spend every night under the stars
To memorize the patterns
Both our heartbeats would make
It might stop me from shaking
And the truth is
I'd be shameless
And I'd be grateful
For this one chance
For our first dance
And you are, you are, you are, you are, you are the one
If I had to walk the earth a thousand times
I'd do it 'cause I love you
Because if you said I had to
I would know it to be true
And I would spend every night under the stars
To memorize the patterns
Both our heartbeats would make
It might stop me from shaking
And the truth is
I'd be shameless
And I'd be grateful
For this one chance
For our first dance
And you are, you are, you are, you are, you are the one
Oh I would fly straight to the moon
To bring the sands back here to you
And we'd make castles where we'd spend our days
And rooms that last eternities
And perfect cracks get fixed with ease
And if it falls apart faster than we had planned
We'll plan for something else
Doesn't matter if it's raining or it's dark
You'll be my something else
The only else cared for you are
And if I prayed for one more thing it would be time
Just a second I could pause
Just one more minute at exhaust
'Cause on the list of everything I need
There's air but first there's you and me
There's love and love your everything
'Cause I've had dreams where we collected
All the clocks and put them all to bed
Because here inside this moment there is us
There need be nothing else
This is something I've wished for
If I had to walk the earth a thousand times
I'd do it 'cause I love you
Because if you said I had to
I would know it to be true
And I would spend every night under the stars
To memorize the patterns
Both our heartbeats would make
It might stop me from shaking
And the truth is
I'd be shameless
And I'd be grateful
For this one chance
For our first dance
And you are, you are, you are, you are, you are the one
If I had to walk the earth a thousand times
I'd do it 'cause I love you
Because if you said I had to
I would know it to be true
And I would spend every night under the stars
To memorize the patterns
Both our heartbeats would make
It might stop me from shaking
And the truth is
I'd be shameless
And I'd be grateful
For this one chance
For our first dance
And you are, you are, you are, you are, you are the one
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