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"
Come and see the blinding
It's so blinding
It's the last thing that you'll ever see
But you might be happy oh, happier
Than you've ever been
So let me show the blindin'
Last thing that you'll ever see
But you might be free oh, freer
Freer than you've ever been
What will you do?
If she runs out of time for you
When will you go?
Things to be getting on with
On with, on with, on with the show! (oh)
Last thing you'll ever see
Come and see the blinding
It's so blinding
It's so blinding
It's the last thing that you'll ever see
Let me show the blinding
It's so blinding
It's so blinding
It's the last thing that you'll ever see
It's so blinding
It's so blinding
Oh what will you do
If they run out of time for you?
Crossing the roads without you
Out you, out you go.
Out you go, out you go
And the blinding means the blinding
It's the last thing that you'll ever see
Oh, oh, oh, last thing you'll ever see
It's so blinding
It's the last thing that you'll ever see
But you might be happy oh, happier
Than you've ever been
So let me show the blindin'
Last thing that you'll ever see
But you might be free oh, freer
Freer than you've ever been
What will you do?
If she runs out of time for you
When will you go?
Things to be getting on with
On with, on with, on with the show! (oh)
Last thing you'll ever see
Come and see the blinding
It's so blinding
It's so blinding
It's the last thing that you'll ever see
Let me show the blinding
It's so blinding
It's so blinding
It's the last thing that you'll ever see
It's so blinding
It's so blinding
Oh what will you do
If they run out of time for you?
Crossing the roads without you
Out you, out you go.
Out you go, out you go
And the blinding means the blinding
It's the last thing that you'll ever see
Oh, oh, oh, last thing you'll ever see
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