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"
It happens every time
If it counts I’ll lose my courage when I need it the most
Then it comes crawling up after
Begs me to ask her what I already know
Singing “Oh, love get me out of the cold”
If I promise that I take you there with me
Would you go, I found
In one step I’ll get closer to heaven than you’ll ever know
You may never know
Feeling out again
Go and try to be your man when there’s a gun to your head
After you’ve found out your good enough wasn’t good enough for everyone else
Singing “Oh, love get me out of the cold”
Hold me right by the fire and I’ll show you what home means now
The words came with a new kind of sadness
They meant everything, you mean everything to me
I’ll take the first train out of this town
With a glare in my eye and my pockets full, ready to die
And when I get hazy I will think just maybe you’re out there somewhere
Singing “Oh, love get me out of the cold”
If I promise that I take you there with me
Would you go, I found
In one step I’ll get closer to heaven than you’ll ever know
You may never know
Singing “Oh, love get me out of the cold”
Hold me right by the fire and I’ll show you what home means now
The words came with a new kind of sadness
They meant everything, you mean everything to me
If it counts I’ll lose my courage when I need it the most
Then it comes crawling up after
Begs me to ask her what I already know
Singing “Oh, love get me out of the cold”
If I promise that I take you there with me
Would you go, I found
In one step I’ll get closer to heaven than you’ll ever know
You may never know
Feeling out again
Go and try to be your man when there’s a gun to your head
After you’ve found out your good enough wasn’t good enough for everyone else
Singing “Oh, love get me out of the cold”
Hold me right by the fire and I’ll show you what home means now
The words came with a new kind of sadness
They meant everything, you mean everything to me
I’ll take the first train out of this town
With a glare in my eye and my pockets full, ready to die
And when I get hazy I will think just maybe you’re out there somewhere
Singing “Oh, love get me out of the cold”
If I promise that I take you there with me
Would you go, I found
In one step I’ll get closer to heaven than you’ll ever know
You may never know
Singing “Oh, love get me out of the cold”
Hold me right by the fire and I’ll show you what home means now
The words came with a new kind of sadness
They meant everything, you mean everything to me
Lyrics submitted by juand182
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