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"
[kris]
wake up
we spend these days
restless and waiting
those nights i spent climbing through windows
they got me nowhere
and all of those things that i wanted
an insatiable lust for young flesh
i lost my youthful innocence so long ago
so how sincere are your advances?
and how sincere are my replies?
anybodys can fill this hole
my God, this winter is killing me!
this cold air stings my face
it chills me down to the bone
leaving my bed has become a chore
and i don't know how much longer
i'm gonna last
i long for the warmth of the spring
and its promises of better things
coming into my life
saying farewell to this cold
has never felt so good
but the days are getting longer
and i still think fondly of these days past
time spent thinking of you
and the scent that's stained my memories
a metallic kiss was all i could offer
but the weight is gone
"the season of singing has come"
all those words i wrote were for you
but you don't deserve them
and i'd take them back if i could
but i can't control this pen in my hand
and i can finally see that
i don't need you
[justin]
how can i smile
and dream awake?
this future of wonder, of you
from under a dream to ensue and remove
tip toe behind trees to a night i can't forget
i'll medicate my options
anything to kill regret
wake up
we spend these days
restless and waiting
those nights i spent climbing through windows
they got me nowhere
and all of those things that i wanted
an insatiable lust for young flesh
i lost my youthful innocence so long ago
so how sincere are your advances?
and how sincere are my replies?
anybodys can fill this hole
my God, this winter is killing me!
this cold air stings my face
it chills me down to the bone
leaving my bed has become a chore
and i don't know how much longer
i'm gonna last
i long for the warmth of the spring
and its promises of better things
coming into my life
saying farewell to this cold
has never felt so good
but the days are getting longer
and i still think fondly of these days past
time spent thinking of you
and the scent that's stained my memories
a metallic kiss was all i could offer
but the weight is gone
"the season of singing has come"
all those words i wrote were for you
but you don't deserve them
and i'd take them back if i could
but i can't control this pen in my hand
and i can finally see that
i don't need you
[justin]
how can i smile
and dream awake?
this future of wonder, of you
from under a dream to ensue and remove
tip toe behind trees to a night i can't forget
i'll medicate my options
anything to kill regret
Lyrics submitted by SyntaxFree
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