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"
My folks they left the TV on
I was falling in love years before I ever met someone
Like a prayer you donu0027t expect an answer
Though you ask for one
Assured my love would come along
Like some rare bird and only I would recognize its song
Like the actress Iu0027d seen on the television
With the stage lights on
What I found was a gamble
You threw yourself in with me
Made a cross and you lit a candle
But we were only
Strangers cornered in a dark room
Projecting slides of cozy lives on the wall
And in the light I thought I saw you
Or was it nothing at all
Of everyone I ever knew
Iu0027m giving it all to you
And asking everything in return
I have nothing left to lose
Iu0027ll get it back through you
Iu0027ll take your offer
Each time I wake Iu0027m still alive
Outlived my expiration date imagine my surprise
A backwards take on the book of Job
His life was wager and mineu0027s a joke
Give him what he wants he will never know
Heu0027s tied up trying to let himself go
Of everyone I ever knew
Iu0027ve gotten used to you
Iu0027ve grown attached to you being here
Of everyone I ever knew
I learned to count on you
As my own fingers
I was falling in love years before I ever met someone
Like a prayer you donu0027t expect an answer
Though you ask for one
Assured my love would come along
Like some rare bird and only I would recognize its song
Like the actress Iu0027d seen on the television
With the stage lights on
What I found was a gamble
You threw yourself in with me
Made a cross and you lit a candle
But we were only
Strangers cornered in a dark room
Projecting slides of cozy lives on the wall
And in the light I thought I saw you
Or was it nothing at all
Of everyone I ever knew
Iu0027m giving it all to you
And asking everything in return
I have nothing left to lose
Iu0027ll get it back through you
Iu0027ll take your offer
Each time I wake Iu0027m still alive
Outlived my expiration date imagine my surprise
A backwards take on the book of Job
His life was wager and mineu0027s a joke
Give him what he wants he will never know
Heu0027s tied up trying to let himself go
Of everyone I ever knew
Iu0027ve gotten used to you
Iu0027ve grown attached to you being here
Of everyone I ever knew
I learned to count on you
As my own fingers
Lyrics submitted by SimonZaius, edited by broman2, ryderbudde, rabbitheartedkid, theactualme
Prosthetic Love Lyrics as written by Kyle Ray Morton
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave
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