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"
(Now, now I know I'm not crazy. the fucking mouse, the mouse is back again.
And I got him here, mother fff - he's in the fucking radiator.
This prick, and he's lay - he's eating a fucking Dorito.
And I can't get him.
And he's looking at me, and he'll still eat the Dorito.
He's behind the fucking - I'm gonna fucking kill him.
This is war.
Now this is war. now watch what happens.)
Took the flower back
His wayward love had been mislead
The sun is dying
Apologies she can't accept
Check the window quick
The sun is dying
Blue and red of day to purple night
And absent light to disarray
Took the flower back
His wayward love had been mislead
The sun is dying
Apologies she won't accept
Check the window quick
The sun is dying
A candle marks her tears
The flame will fade
She'll greet the dawn in disarray
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
Took the flower back
His wayward love had been misled
The level's rising
Steps into the stream
We're so misled
She'll watch the pain the level's rising
Blue and reds of day to purple night
And absent light to disarray
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
And I got him here, mother fff - he's in the fucking radiator.
This prick, and he's lay - he's eating a fucking Dorito.
And I can't get him.
And he's looking at me, and he'll still eat the Dorito.
He's behind the fucking - I'm gonna fucking kill him.
This is war.
Now this is war. now watch what happens.)
Took the flower back
His wayward love had been mislead
The sun is dying
Apologies she can't accept
Check the window quick
The sun is dying
Blue and red of day to purple night
And absent light to disarray
Took the flower back
His wayward love had been mislead
The sun is dying
Apologies she won't accept
Check the window quick
The sun is dying
A candle marks her tears
The flame will fade
She'll greet the dawn in disarray
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
Took the flower back
His wayward love had been misled
The level's rising
Steps into the stream
We're so misled
She'll watch the pain the level's rising
Blue and reds of day to purple night
And absent light to disarray
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
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Mouse Lyrics as written by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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