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"
Attention we have got a medical emergency
The patient's condition is critical and fading
Oh, I've got this under control
But these is no guarantee
Now should you question this professional opinion
It's time we'll spend wasting
And oh, if you want to see
Go on and tear it out of me
This case is possibly the worst that I have ever seen
I see how vulnerable we as a people can truly be
And oh, if you want to see
Go on and tear it out of me
And oh, if you want to see
Go on and tear it out of me
Honey, release my heart, if you
Honey, release my heart, you let me go
Release my heart if you, honey
Do not let me, do not let me go
A radio transmission
Sent to get the heart to listen
(Defibrillate)
A radio transmission
Sent to get the heart to listen
Oh, oh, this is love from a gurney
Oh, this is love from a gurney
Oh, this is love from a gurney
(Believe in Number City)
Honey, release my heart, if you
Honey, release my heart, you let me go
Release my heart if you, honey
Do not let me, do not let me go
Honey, release my heart, if you
Honey, release my heart, you let me go
Release my heart if you, honey
Do not let me, do not let me go
(One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five)
(One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five)
The patient's condition is critical and fading
Oh, I've got this under control
But these is no guarantee
Now should you question this professional opinion
It's time we'll spend wasting
And oh, if you want to see
Go on and tear it out of me
This case is possibly the worst that I have ever seen
I see how vulnerable we as a people can truly be
And oh, if you want to see
Go on and tear it out of me
And oh, if you want to see
Go on and tear it out of me
Honey, release my heart, if you
Honey, release my heart, you let me go
Release my heart if you, honey
Do not let me, do not let me go
A radio transmission
Sent to get the heart to listen
(Defibrillate)
A radio transmission
Sent to get the heart to listen
Oh, oh, this is love from a gurney
Oh, this is love from a gurney
Oh, this is love from a gurney
(Believe in Number City)
Honey, release my heart, if you
Honey, release my heart, you let me go
Release my heart if you, honey
Do not let me, do not let me go
Honey, release my heart, if you
Honey, release my heart, you let me go
Release my heart if you, honey
Do not let me, do not let me go
(One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five)
(One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine)
(Two, three, four, five)
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