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"
This place we belong is the world of either choices
We have a little freedom in the rules that go more and more complicated
If someone makes a mistake and I could compensate the blan
I would be able to go to the alternate world behind the door without permission
I don't know who started this "game"
I was thinking no one would challenge it
But I find I was made to standa at the place to start
As a whispering voice told my heart, lead my heart
I was made to stand
I look around and nothing differs from the world where I was
In the world of this "game" really in the "SOU" of someone?
This world is so real and is it too actual to believe in
If I get out of here, I can chase a dream free
Even the rule of this "game" is not clear
I search the way to go on it,
I trace the memory appearing on my shadow clearly
And the much "SOU" I remember
So I find this "game" is the "game" I started...
It is only I that can compensate the blank
Off this dazzling "world of this game"
I will fill in it with more mightiness than ever
Believing I can do what I can't do
It is nobody but I
That can open the door free
I asserted "we" had nothing to do
With everything that restricted us...
The way to make it sure appears faintly
I will be able to get out if I find me,
Who is chasing a dream, in the "world in this game" in "SOU"
And talk with "him"
This dazzling "world in this game"
Is the world my "SOU" shows
This "game" repeats and continues
In this "SOU" of no rational reason
It is a dream in "SOU"...
We have a little freedom in the rules that go more and more complicated
If someone makes a mistake and I could compensate the blan
I would be able to go to the alternate world behind the door without permission
I don't know who started this "game"
I was thinking no one would challenge it
But I find I was made to standa at the place to start
As a whispering voice told my heart, lead my heart
I was made to stand
I look around and nothing differs from the world where I was
In the world of this "game" really in the "SOU" of someone?
This world is so real and is it too actual to believe in
If I get out of here, I can chase a dream free
Even the rule of this "game" is not clear
I search the way to go on it,
I trace the memory appearing on my shadow clearly
And the much "SOU" I remember
So I find this "game" is the "game" I started...
It is only I that can compensate the blank
Off this dazzling "world of this game"
I will fill in it with more mightiness than ever
Believing I can do what I can't do
It is nobody but I
That can open the door free
I asserted "we" had nothing to do
With everything that restricted us...
The way to make it sure appears faintly
I will be able to get out if I find me,
Who is chasing a dream, in the "world in this game" in "SOU"
And talk with "him"
This dazzling "world in this game"
Is the world my "SOU" shows
This "game" repeats and continues
In this "SOU" of no rational reason
It is a dream in "SOU"...
Lyrics submitted by Lichery
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