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"
Is this really what we want
Is this really want we need
Six billion people staring at their feet
You could drop them to the floor
And they would hope for more
And it's hard I know
We're all scared but what for?
When maybe we would all survive
Like service with a smile
So you can tell me what you think you'd do
If you ruled the world for second or two
Maybe you could change things and
Tell me would it be worth the fight
When you can see that they're
All givin' up in their eyes
Tell me would you change them
Just give me a name, give me a right
Take all I know from out of sight
For now I am all that I need
Can you complete me?
And give me a war
Give me some peace
Give me some one I'd rather be
But all the same you can take it away
Cause there's no one else to blame
The smallest things are
Our biggest cracks
And is it a wonder we all collapse
And we strive for more in life
So tell me what you think you'd do
If the world really needed you
Maybe you would help it
But tell me what you think you'd do
If I rule the world for a second or two
Would you and could you help me?
(When When) When you can give me a name
Give me a right
Take all I know from out of sight
For now I am all that I need
So just complete me
Give me a war and give me some peace
Give me some one I'd rather be
But all the same you can take it away
Cause there's no one else to blame
So give me a name
And give me a right
Take all I know from out of sight
For now I am that I need
Can you complete me?
Is this really want we need
Six billion people staring at their feet
You could drop them to the floor
And they would hope for more
And it's hard I know
We're all scared but what for?
When maybe we would all survive
Like service with a smile
So you can tell me what you think you'd do
If you ruled the world for second or two
Maybe you could change things and
Tell me would it be worth the fight
When you can see that they're
All givin' up in their eyes
Tell me would you change them
Just give me a name, give me a right
Take all I know from out of sight
For now I am all that I need
Can you complete me?
And give me a war
Give me some peace
Give me some one I'd rather be
But all the same you can take it away
Cause there's no one else to blame
The smallest things are
Our biggest cracks
And is it a wonder we all collapse
And we strive for more in life
So tell me what you think you'd do
If the world really needed you
Maybe you would help it
But tell me what you think you'd do
If I rule the world for a second or two
Would you and could you help me?
(When When) When you can give me a name
Give me a right
Take all I know from out of sight
For now I am all that I need
So just complete me
Give me a war and give me some peace
Give me some one I'd rather be
But all the same you can take it away
Cause there's no one else to blame
So give me a name
And give me a right
Take all I know from out of sight
For now I am that I need
Can you complete me?
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Complete Me Lyrics as written by Vincent Turner
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