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"
Is there something that I should know
Some handshake or some secret code
To get me through your doorway one more time
Is there a button I can press
To block out noise from all the rest
You're the only sound I need to hear
See I'm burning up out here in this light
Looked so pretty from the inside,
but out here it's too damn bright
And your voice sounds so far away, so I respond to the delay
And I wait to hear you say to come home
Is there a place that I can go
To forget the things I've never known
Because I don't want to want anymore
Is there a dream that I can have
Where I don't wake up freezing and sad
Or could you show me how to sleep on my back
See I'm burning up out here in this light
Looked so pretty from the inside,
but out here it's too damn bright
And your voice sounds so far away, so I respond to the delay
And I wait to hear you say to come home
I can't always be right there,
but I can get there soon
I can't always hold your hand,
But I will always love you
See I'm freezing out here in this light
Looked so pretty from the inside,
but out here it's too damn bright
And your voice sounds so far away, so I respond to the delay
And I wait to hear you say to come home.
Some handshake or some secret code
To get me through your doorway one more time
Is there a button I can press
To block out noise from all the rest
You're the only sound I need to hear
See I'm burning up out here in this light
Looked so pretty from the inside,
but out here it's too damn bright
And your voice sounds so far away, so I respond to the delay
And I wait to hear you say to come home
Is there a place that I can go
To forget the things I've never known
Because I don't want to want anymore
Is there a dream that I can have
Where I don't wake up freezing and sad
Or could you show me how to sleep on my back
See I'm burning up out here in this light
Looked so pretty from the inside,
but out here it's too damn bright
And your voice sounds so far away, so I respond to the delay
And I wait to hear you say to come home
I can't always be right there,
but I can get there soon
I can't always hold your hand,
But I will always love you
See I'm freezing out here in this light
Looked so pretty from the inside,
but out here it's too damn bright
And your voice sounds so far away, so I respond to the delay
And I wait to hear you say to come home.
Lyrics submitted by HellionChild, edited by deathislogical
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