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"
I'm in a clique but I want out
It's not the same as when I was punched
In the old days there was enough
The card games and ease with the bitter salt of blood
I was in but I want out
My mother's love is choking me
I'm sick of words that hang above my head
What about the kid? It's time the kid got free
Be a part of the love club
Everything will glow for you
You'll get punched for the love club
For the love club
I joined the club and it's all on
There are fights for being my best friend
And the girls get their claws out
There's something about hanging out with the wicked kids
Take the pill make it too ill
The other day I forgot my old address
I'm sitting pretty on the throne
There's nothing more I want
Except to be alone
Be a part of the love club
Everything will glow for you
You'll get punched for the love club
For the love club
Your clothes are soaked and you don't know where to go
So drop your chin and take yourself back home
And roll out your maps and papers
Find out your hiding places again
The only problem that I got with the club
Is how you're severed from the people who watched you grow up
When you're a member go on your great adventure again
They will be waiting at the end
Be a part of the love club
Everything will glow for you
You'll get punched for the love club
For the love club
It's not the same as when I was punched
In the old days there was enough
The card games and ease with the bitter salt of blood
I was in but I want out
My mother's love is choking me
I'm sick of words that hang above my head
What about the kid? It's time the kid got free
Be a part of the love club
Everything will glow for you
You'll get punched for the love club
For the love club
I joined the club and it's all on
There are fights for being my best friend
And the girls get their claws out
There's something about hanging out with the wicked kids
Take the pill make it too ill
The other day I forgot my old address
I'm sitting pretty on the throne
There's nothing more I want
Except to be alone
Be a part of the love club
Everything will glow for you
You'll get punched for the love club
For the love club
Your clothes are soaked and you don't know where to go
So drop your chin and take yourself back home
And roll out your maps and papers
Find out your hiding places again
The only problem that I got with the club
Is how you're severed from the people who watched you grow up
When you're a member go on your great adventure again
They will be waiting at the end
Be a part of the love club
Everything will glow for you
You'll get punched for the love club
For the love club
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I believe the song is about a girl, Lorde maybe, but at the start it's like she's a complete outcast, a loser. "The card games and ease with the bitter salt of blood" this line is kind of hinting to she gets bullied "I'm sick of words that hang above my head What about the kid? It's time the kid got free" she's most likely labeled a loser and she's growing up and she doesn't want to be the "kid".
"Be a part of the love club Everything will glow for you" I imagine someone or something telling her be popular everything will be so much more easier for you.
"I joined the club and it's all on There are fights for being my best friend" She joined the popular clique and she's like the Regina George of the school, everyone loves her.
"The other day I forgot my old address I'm sitting pretty on the throne" She values appearance more than intelligence because everyone loves an air head.
"There's nothing more I want Except to be alone" She has everything she ever wanted but now she wants privacy and she's growing tired of "The Love Club".
"Your clothes are soaked and you don't know where to go So drop your chin and take yourself back home And roll out your maps and papers Find out your hiding places again" This is the in a way a self realization, she's standing alone in the rain figuring what she wants to do. She's finding herself and forgetting the caricature she had created finding her way to her old friends.
"The only problem that I got with the club Is how you're severed from the people who watched you grow up When you're a member go on your great adventure again They will be waiting at the end" The problem she had with popularity was leaving her old friends. She decides to go with her old friends "people who watched you grow up" and leave the popular clique behind. Her friends are waiting for her "they will be waiting at the end".
"Be a part of the love club Everything will glow for you You'll get punched for the love club For the love club" I see this last line as irony because her group of losers ended up being the true "Love Club".