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"
The ocean's deep
She knew that much before she had you
She's gonna leave and never come back to you
She'll watch you sleep and know she never satisfied you
You're gonna weep before you grow
You got to know she had to go and leave you alone
And in her heart, she's gone
And on and on and on and on
A deep, dark, homeless ocean sink her to the bottom
When she goes, she hopes you meet a woman
Who will fill those holes that she shot straight through you
But until then you'll go it alone
You may say you can take it when they break your sufferin' heart
And they seem to believe it when you say you're holding strong
I guess that's what they call moving on
And while he sleeps he knows he's gonna have to wake up
she will have left him and day after day oh he will pray
He'll plead
He'll dream
He'll clench his little fingers around his blanket made of fleece
Because he knows that he'll wake up alone
And in his heart is misery
And on and on so endlessly
When he grows, he hopes and hopes
To meet a woman to fill those holes that she shot straight through him
and left him alone
You may say you can take it when they break your sufferin' heart
And they seem to believe it when you say you're holding strong
I guess that's what they call moving on
And on an on sinking to the bottom
You may say you can take it when they break your sufferin' heart
And they seem to believe it when you say you're holding strong
I guess that's what they call moving on
She knew that much before she had you
She's gonna leave and never come back to you
She'll watch you sleep and know she never satisfied you
You're gonna weep before you grow
You got to know she had to go and leave you alone
And in her heart, she's gone
And on and on and on and on
A deep, dark, homeless ocean sink her to the bottom
When she goes, she hopes you meet a woman
Who will fill those holes that she shot straight through you
But until then you'll go it alone
You may say you can take it when they break your sufferin' heart
And they seem to believe it when you say you're holding strong
I guess that's what they call moving on
And while he sleeps he knows he's gonna have to wake up
she will have left him and day after day oh he will pray
He'll plead
He'll dream
He'll clench his little fingers around his blanket made of fleece
Because he knows that he'll wake up alone
And in his heart is misery
And on and on so endlessly
When he grows, he hopes and hopes
To meet a woman to fill those holes that she shot straight through him
and left him alone
You may say you can take it when they break your sufferin' heart
And they seem to believe it when you say you're holding strong
I guess that's what they call moving on
And on an on sinking to the bottom
You may say you can take it when they break your sufferin' heart
And they seem to believe it when you say you're holding strong
I guess that's what they call moving on
Lyrics submitted by ruffianangelina
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