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"
Don't wanna go through the motions
Just because its easy
Won't you give me that 'ol look
Like you used to when you'd see me
Let's get back to livin' life
A little less comfortable
When we didn't have a nickel
Not a nickel to our names
Yea we were rollin' pennies
We were happy or insane
Our love would burn burn burn
A little less comfortable
Back when you would wake me up
In the middle of the night
Kiss me like your lover
Instead of just your wife
Unpredictable, oh and wonderful
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
Didn't think about tomorrow
Cause we didn't have a plan
But boy you took my breath
Every time you took my hand
We were young and scared and happy
A little less comfortable
Back when you would wake me up
In the middle of the night
Kiss me like your lover
Instead of just your wife
Unpredictable, it was wonderful
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
Don't wanna go through the motions
Just because it's easy
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
Just because its easy
Won't you give me that 'ol look
Like you used to when you'd see me
Let's get back to livin' life
A little less comfortable
When we didn't have a nickel
Not a nickel to our names
Yea we were rollin' pennies
We were happy or insane
Our love would burn burn burn
A little less comfortable
Back when you would wake me up
In the middle of the night
Kiss me like your lover
Instead of just your wife
Unpredictable, oh and wonderful
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
Didn't think about tomorrow
Cause we didn't have a plan
But boy you took my breath
Every time you took my hand
We were young and scared and happy
A little less comfortable
Back when you would wake me up
In the middle of the night
Kiss me like your lover
Instead of just your wife
Unpredictable, it was wonderful
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
Don't wanna go through the motions
Just because it's easy
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
A little less comfortable
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A Little Less Comfortable Lyrics as written by Joanna Robertson Emily Patrice Robertson
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