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"
Et eezte Mohl, dat ich em Kino woor
Weiss nit, en welchem Johr, weiss nur noch wo
Mann, woor ich do nervös! Mann woor dat Kino jross!
Ich gläuv, die Klappsitz woore ruud bespannt
ich benn nit sicher, doch ich jläuv met Samt
Vüürhang met Stääne drop, 't düster'n hä jing op
Et wood janz leis em Saal, ne Kulturfilm leef ahn, dann Wocheschau
'T flooch en Kamra durch't All, un en Stemm hätt verzällt, wat wo loss wohr
Un en Cinemaskop kohm donoh Deck un Doof
Indianer un Cowsboys, kohm Hollywood
'T wood jelaach, mitjeföhlt un dozweschejegröhlt
Stars un Stääncher bestaunt, uns jing et joot
Zelluloid-Paradies, en der Paus joov et Ihss
Un wenn't tragisch wood Träne wood metjeflennt
Doch ein Saach, die woor kloor
'T kohm nix andres en Frooch
Janz ahm Schluß wat och sons? E Happy End
Ahm Chlodwigplatz, wo unser Kino woor
Ess längs ne Supermaat un ich un do
Jonn ahn Rejale lang, stonn en dä Kasseschlang
Da, wo die Sonderahnjebote stonn
Do hinge Fotos Robin Hood, King-Kong
Ich wei0 noch janz jenau, eimohl'n Bikinifrau
Kohm en dä Film nit rinn, moht mer sechzehn für sinn
Dä leef och spät
Doch dat Bild hätt jereisch, ich schleef wochelang schlääch
Do woor doch jet!?
Un en Cinemaskop joov et hück Deck un Doof
Indianer un Cowboys un Hollywood
'T wood jelaach, mitjeföhlt un dozweschejegröhlt
Stars un Stääncher bestaunt, uns jing et joot
Zelluloid-Paradies, en der Paus joov et Ihss
Un wenn't tragisch wood Träne wood metjeflennt
Doch ein Saach, die woor kloor
'T kohm nix andres en Frooch
Janz ahm Schluß – wat och sons? E Happy End
Weiss nit, en welchem Johr, weiss nur noch wo
Mann, woor ich do nervös! Mann woor dat Kino jross!
Ich gläuv, die Klappsitz woore ruud bespannt
ich benn nit sicher, doch ich jläuv met Samt
Vüürhang met Stääne drop, 't düster'n hä jing op
Et wood janz leis em Saal, ne Kulturfilm leef ahn, dann Wocheschau
'T flooch en Kamra durch't All, un en Stemm hätt verzällt, wat wo loss wohr
Un en Cinemaskop kohm donoh Deck un Doof
Indianer un Cowsboys, kohm Hollywood
'T wood jelaach, mitjeföhlt un dozweschejegröhlt
Stars un Stääncher bestaunt, uns jing et joot
Zelluloid-Paradies, en der Paus joov et Ihss
Un wenn't tragisch wood Träne wood metjeflennt
Doch ein Saach, die woor kloor
'T kohm nix andres en Frooch
Janz ahm Schluß wat och sons? E Happy End
Ahm Chlodwigplatz, wo unser Kino woor
Ess längs ne Supermaat un ich un do
Jonn ahn Rejale lang, stonn en dä Kasseschlang
Da, wo die Sonderahnjebote stonn
Do hinge Fotos Robin Hood, King-Kong
Ich wei0 noch janz jenau, eimohl'n Bikinifrau
Kohm en dä Film nit rinn, moht mer sechzehn für sinn
Dä leef och spät
Doch dat Bild hätt jereisch, ich schleef wochelang schlääch
Do woor doch jet!?
Un en Cinemaskop joov et hück Deck un Doof
Indianer un Cowboys un Hollywood
'T wood jelaach, mitjeföhlt un dozweschejegröhlt
Stars un Stääncher bestaunt, uns jing et joot
Zelluloid-Paradies, en der Paus joov et Ihss
Un wenn't tragisch wood Träne wood metjeflennt
Doch ein Saach, die woor kloor
'T kohm nix andres en Frooch
Janz ahm Schluß – wat och sons? E Happy End
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