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"
Reality no longer battles perception
This letter's written to no one
Sincere,
I sought your truth and divine purpose through myths of revelation
Guidance all wrapped up in a paper box,
Supported only so long as my mind was the enemy
I could not in conscience hold on
As we face distress we must not lose heart
Stand fast and press on,
Triumph awaits
As we face distress we must not lose heart
Stand fast and press on,
Triumph awaits us
The powerful constant that I had once leaned on is no longer there
(No longer)
You call this shameful disbelief,
A process like losing my closest friend
As we face distress we must not lose heart
Stand fast and press on,
Triumph awaits
As we face distress we must not lose heart
Stand fast and press on,
Triumph awaits us
Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart,
Before we can rebuild them again,
A greater foundation
We watch our whole lives
(Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives)
Fall apart
(Before we can rebuild them again) rebuild them again (a greater foundation)
I wish there was another way,
But no amount of devotion can fix this
Triumph awaits
Triumph awaits
Triumph awaits
Triumph awaits
Triumph awaits
Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart,
Before we can rebuild them again,
A greater foundation
We watch our whole lives
Fall apart (Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives)
Rebuild them again
(Before we can rebuild them again,
A greater foundation)a
This letter's written to no one
Sincere,
I sought your truth and divine purpose through myths of revelation
Guidance all wrapped up in a paper box,
Supported only so long as my mind was the enemy
I could not in conscience hold on
As we face distress we must not lose heart
Stand fast and press on,
Triumph awaits
As we face distress we must not lose heart
Stand fast and press on,
Triumph awaits us
The powerful constant that I had once leaned on is no longer there
(No longer)
You call this shameful disbelief,
A process like losing my closest friend
As we face distress we must not lose heart
Stand fast and press on,
Triumph awaits
As we face distress we must not lose heart
Stand fast and press on,
Triumph awaits us
Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart,
Before we can rebuild them again,
A greater foundation
We watch our whole lives
(Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives)
Fall apart
(Before we can rebuild them again) rebuild them again (a greater foundation)
I wish there was another way,
But no amount of devotion can fix this
Triumph awaits
Triumph awaits
Triumph awaits
Triumph awaits
Triumph awaits
Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives fall apart,
Before we can rebuild them again,
A greater foundation
We watch our whole lives
Fall apart (Sometimes we have to watch our whole lives)
Rebuild them again
(Before we can rebuild them again,
A greater foundation)a
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