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"
Sometimes I feel so meaningless
Tangled up in the widow's web
The more I struggle the tighter the noose will get
I'm screaming for help outside of the school for the deaf
I'll spill my guts to anyone who will listen
I'm headed west to try to test my bravery
Face to face with my thoughts is what I need
The rear view reminds me the future's passing presently
If I could just hit rewind, eject and erase it
I've gotta replace this tape 'cause it can't sing along
Because you, you ruin so many songs
Even though it's been so long
All that I ever do is drink enough to try to forget
Let's sober up and wait for the sun
Before we take back everything that we've done
I'm headed west to try to test my bravery
Face to face with my thoughts is what I need
The rear view reminds me the future's passing presently
I've spent so much of my time tryin' to see
Someone else, someone I could never be
You can't change yourself through changin' scenery
The rear view reminds of where we've been
Wasting all my time
I'm looking for something that I'll never find
I'm wasting all my time
I'm looking for something that I might never find
Let's sober up and wait for the sun
Before we take back everything that we've done
I'm headed west to try to test my bravery
Face to face with my thoughts is what I need
The rear view reminds me the future's passing presently
I spent so much of my time tryin' to see
Someone else, someone I could never be
You can't change yourself through changin' scenery
I tried but it doesn't mean I can forget the person that I am
Tangled up in the widow's web
The more I struggle the tighter the noose will get
I'm screaming for help outside of the school for the deaf
I'll spill my guts to anyone who will listen
I'm headed west to try to test my bravery
Face to face with my thoughts is what I need
The rear view reminds me the future's passing presently
If I could just hit rewind, eject and erase it
I've gotta replace this tape 'cause it can't sing along
Because you, you ruin so many songs
Even though it's been so long
All that I ever do is drink enough to try to forget
Let's sober up and wait for the sun
Before we take back everything that we've done
I'm headed west to try to test my bravery
Face to face with my thoughts is what I need
The rear view reminds me the future's passing presently
I've spent so much of my time tryin' to see
Someone else, someone I could never be
You can't change yourself through changin' scenery
The rear view reminds of where we've been
Wasting all my time
I'm looking for something that I'll never find
I'm wasting all my time
I'm looking for something that I might never find
Let's sober up and wait for the sun
Before we take back everything that we've done
I'm headed west to try to test my bravery
Face to face with my thoughts is what I need
The rear view reminds me the future's passing presently
I spent so much of my time tryin' to see
Someone else, someone I could never be
You can't change yourself through changin' scenery
I tried but it doesn't mean I can forget the person that I am
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Headed West Lyrics as written by Buddy James Nielsen Garrett Zablocki
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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