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"
The senses dulled and calmly sedated
My heart well, its barley beating
but my head, my head is just racing around
and at this time of night where anything could happen
and with your ear to ear grin I fall right to the floor
and it goes, and it goes, and it goes, and it goes
around and around (around and around) around and around
my heart and my head keep spinning around and around
Empty in this dirt and flat on my back
both hands gripped tightly and widely around my bare neck
the truth of it all is I am very capable of love
it's just that im not capable of letting you go
and it goes, and it goes, and it goes, and it goes
around and around (around and around) around and around
my heart and my head keep spinning around and around
The bright, blinding light, the yellow that took away this night
and in that time I've lost all count of sheep
and I've lost more than that, I've lost these pieces of me
and it goes, and it goes, and it goes, and it goes
around and around (around and around) around and around
my heart and my head keep spinning around and around
My heart well, its barley beating
but my head, my head is just racing around
and at this time of night where anything could happen
and with your ear to ear grin I fall right to the floor
and it goes, and it goes, and it goes, and it goes
around and around (around and around) around and around
my heart and my head keep spinning around and around
Empty in this dirt and flat on my back
both hands gripped tightly and widely around my bare neck
the truth of it all is I am very capable of love
it's just that im not capable of letting you go
and it goes, and it goes, and it goes, and it goes
around and around (around and around) around and around
my heart and my head keep spinning around and around
The bright, blinding light, the yellow that took away this night
and in that time I've lost all count of sheep
and I've lost more than that, I've lost these pieces of me
and it goes, and it goes, and it goes, and it goes
around and around (around and around) around and around
my heart and my head keep spinning around and around
Lyrics submitted by HelloMsApodaca
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