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"
(In the middle)
Can't get above or below
(In the middle)
Everything that's left ain't right
(In the middle)
Hafta get up to get down
(In the middle)
Can't spend another minute outside
(In the middle)
360 degrees
(In the middle)
C-cooking with our hardest teeth
(In the middle)
The heart of the matter lies right
(In the middle)
And everything that matters resides
(In the middle)
I ain't ever gonna get the call
(In the middle)
I remember everything I forgot, it's
(In the middle)
I guess I'm gonna hafta decide
(In the middle)
And nothing happens when you just stand right
(In the middle)
Balancing two extremes
(In the middle)
Swingin' in the in between
(In the middle)
Going where there isn't a guide
(In the middle)
Knowing where the love is hiding
(In the middle)
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
(In the middle)
(In the middle)
Can't get above or below
(In the middle)
Everything that's left ain't right
(In the middle)
You hafta get up to get down
(In the middle)
Can't spend another minute outside
(In the middle)
360 degrees
(In the middle)
C-cooking with our hardest teeth
(In the middle)
The heart of the matter lies right
(In the middle)
And everything that matters resides
(In the middle)
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
Building up ahead of steam
Current in a running stream
Center of a laser beam
Compliments to the kind and queen
Perfectly operated machine
(?)
Middle if you know what I mean
Only momentarily seen
Everything and everything
(In the middle)
Can't get above or below
(In the middle)
Everything that's left ain't right
(In the middle)
Hafta get up to get down
(In the middle)
Can't spend another minute outside
Can't get above or below
(In the middle)
Everything that's left ain't right
(In the middle)
Hafta get up to get down
(In the middle)
Can't spend another minute outside
(In the middle)
360 degrees
(In the middle)
C-cooking with our hardest teeth
(In the middle)
The heart of the matter lies right
(In the middle)
And everything that matters resides
(In the middle)
I ain't ever gonna get the call
(In the middle)
I remember everything I forgot, it's
(In the middle)
I guess I'm gonna hafta decide
(In the middle)
And nothing happens when you just stand right
(In the middle)
Balancing two extremes
(In the middle)
Swingin' in the in between
(In the middle)
Going where there isn't a guide
(In the middle)
Knowing where the love is hiding
(In the middle)
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
(In the middle)
(In the middle)
Can't get above or below
(In the middle)
Everything that's left ain't right
(In the middle)
You hafta get up to get down
(In the middle)
Can't spend another minute outside
(In the middle)
360 degrees
(In the middle)
C-cooking with our hardest teeth
(In the middle)
The heart of the matter lies right
(In the middle)
And everything that matters resides
(In the middle)
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
And I can't get enough of your love
Building up ahead of steam
Current in a running stream
Center of a laser beam
Compliments to the kind and queen
Perfectly operated machine
(?)
Middle if you know what I mean
Only momentarily seen
Everything and everything
(In the middle)
Can't get above or below
(In the middle)
Everything that's left ain't right
(In the middle)
Hafta get up to get down
(In the middle)
Can't spend another minute outside
Lyrics submitted by donyon
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