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"
When the family woke up next morning, they packed and left our sad house
We laughed for hours until we went silent and we knew what we did
We were happy just for an instant, we felt like we were kids
And in the moment, just for an instant, we fell in love once again
Do you remember the billboards in cities where we used to live?
The empty promise that God wants to save us as long as God can forgive
I wonder if God wrote a book about us, could he actually forgive?
I wonder if we wrote a book about us what we'd actually forget
But really, how I wonder...
How it used to feel in our younger bodies, in our fancy cars, marbles hotel lobbies
On a foreign beach on our wedding day, in satin sheets in our king sized bed
How Imiss your skin, I miss your lips, your pretty hair and your curvy hips
The saddest songs, the burning sun, forget one day and then it's gone
Do you remember the cars in our neighbourhood? And the sidewalks in chalk?
All the children and all of their families when they closed down the block?
They'd shoot fireworks into the night sky, we'd toast with champagne
We were real once without any vanities, I want to be there again
But really, I want to be there...
In the Whistler mountains in the powdered snow, in a club in Paris...
Drinking wine with our best friends on the Big Sur cliffs laughing in the wind
Swimming pools in the Hollywood Hills painting moments from your favorite films
Every night and every breath, the beads of sweat above your breasts
How it used to feel in our younger bodies in our fancy clothes in the Plaza lobby
St, Maarten Beach on our wedding day, in the Vatican in our king sized bed
I want to be there
We laughed for hours until we went silent and we knew what we did
We were happy just for an instant, we felt like we were kids
And in the moment, just for an instant, we fell in love once again
Do you remember the billboards in cities where we used to live?
The empty promise that God wants to save us as long as God can forgive
I wonder if God wrote a book about us, could he actually forgive?
I wonder if we wrote a book about us what we'd actually forget
But really, how I wonder...
How it used to feel in our younger bodies, in our fancy cars, marbles hotel lobbies
On a foreign beach on our wedding day, in satin sheets in our king sized bed
How Imiss your skin, I miss your lips, your pretty hair and your curvy hips
The saddest songs, the burning sun, forget one day and then it's gone
Do you remember the cars in our neighbourhood? And the sidewalks in chalk?
All the children and all of their families when they closed down the block?
They'd shoot fireworks into the night sky, we'd toast with champagne
We were real once without any vanities, I want to be there again
But really, I want to be there...
In the Whistler mountains in the powdered snow, in a club in Paris...
Drinking wine with our best friends on the Big Sur cliffs laughing in the wind
Swimming pools in the Hollywood Hills painting moments from your favorite films
Every night and every breath, the beads of sweat above your breasts
How it used to feel in our younger bodies in our fancy clothes in the Plaza lobby
St, Maarten Beach on our wedding day, in the Vatican in our king sized bed
I want to be there
Lyrics submitted by BurningMirror, edited by esiedlecki
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