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"
4 in the morning and I'm sober walking through the rain
It doesn't matter where I'm going everywhere's the same
Cold dark room I've put myself in to
You were a window to a world that I could never know
And ask for every piece of me and so I let you go
Way too soon now I'm back to my cold dark room
If I could take it all back I could make it all right
You could be the best part of my life
I could tell you all night that I want to be the man I'm suppose to be
that...
I won't lie
I waited a million hours just to say that
I will die if you leave me
And you are the way my heart beats
And you are the words my tongue speaks
And I will die if you leave me
I know you heard a thousand words that took your breath away
A million melodies that never got the notes to say what they mean
I promised you everything
If I could take it all back I could make it all right
You could be the best part of my life
I could tell you all night that I want to be the man I'm suppose to be
that...
I won't lie
I waited a million hours just to say that
I will die if you leave me
And you are the way my heart beats
And you are the words my tongue speaks
And I will die if you leave me
This is me when my wold stops turning
Heart stops while I notice everything is falling apart
This is me when my lungs start burning
Say what I mean when I know that I could but I won't
Tell me things that will break the silence
Swear I can hear every heartbeat in this place
Want to see the hope
I want to feel the love
I want to hear what you say when I say that...
I won't lie
I waited a million hours just to say that
I will die if you leave me
And you are the way my heart beats
And you are the words my tongue speaks
And I will die if you leave me
So please don't ever leave
It doesn't matter where I'm going everywhere's the same
Cold dark room I've put myself in to
You were a window to a world that I could never know
And ask for every piece of me and so I let you go
Way too soon now I'm back to my cold dark room
If I could take it all back I could make it all right
You could be the best part of my life
I could tell you all night that I want to be the man I'm suppose to be
that...
I won't lie
I waited a million hours just to say that
I will die if you leave me
And you are the way my heart beats
And you are the words my tongue speaks
And I will die if you leave me
I know you heard a thousand words that took your breath away
A million melodies that never got the notes to say what they mean
I promised you everything
If I could take it all back I could make it all right
You could be the best part of my life
I could tell you all night that I want to be the man I'm suppose to be
that...
I won't lie
I waited a million hours just to say that
I will die if you leave me
And you are the way my heart beats
And you are the words my tongue speaks
And I will die if you leave me
This is me when my wold stops turning
Heart stops while I notice everything is falling apart
This is me when my lungs start burning
Say what I mean when I know that I could but I won't
Tell me things that will break the silence
Swear I can hear every heartbeat in this place
Want to see the hope
I want to feel the love
I want to hear what you say when I say that...
I won't lie
I waited a million hours just to say that
I will die if you leave me
And you are the way my heart beats
And you are the words my tongue speaks
And I will die if you leave me
So please don't ever leave
Lyrics submitted by Skoobasteve24
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