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"
We've been deserted that doesn't mean that we deserve it
Is it worth keeping ourselves at bay
Set sail you've spent way too much time living your life in exile
So say goodbye to the shoreline
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry that I have forgotten to read
I don't need another day floating away
Lost in the sea of regret I've made
I want to wash up new for once
For once I don't want to float face down
We've been deserted that doesn't mean that we deserve it
Is it worth keeping ourselves at bay
You can try and fail but don't fail to try
Do I deserve this
If you're deserted you can desert it
You can never leave an island in your mind until you lose sight of the shoreline
You can try and fail but don't fail to try
Some people spend their whole lives in exile
You can never leave an island until you lose sight of the shoreline
Times like these they come in wave
Make your footprint and send it right back away
All you're saying to me tonight here in the open skyline
Without darkness no star can learn to guide the way
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry that I have forgotten to read
You are not as lost as me
If you were I wouldn't be here writing
Some day you will find me
Is it worth keeping ourselves at bay
Set sail you've spent way too much time living your life in exile
So say goodbye to the shoreline
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry that I have forgotten to read
I don't need another day floating away
Lost in the sea of regret I've made
I want to wash up new for once
For once I don't want to float face down
We've been deserted that doesn't mean that we deserve it
Is it worth keeping ourselves at bay
You can try and fail but don't fail to try
Do I deserve this
If you're deserted you can desert it
You can never leave an island in your mind until you lose sight of the shoreline
You can try and fail but don't fail to try
Some people spend their whole lives in exile
You can never leave an island until you lose sight of the shoreline
Times like these they come in wave
Make your footprint and send it right back away
All you're saying to me tonight here in the open skyline
Without darkness no star can learn to guide the way
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry that I have forgotten to read
You are not as lost as me
If you were I wouldn't be here writing
Some day you will find me
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