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 thought I knew
Everything about you, down to your last move
I thought you knew
Everything about me, like you were my diary
Time, time, ticking by, looking for the reasons why
You left, the day you
Come back, around
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
When you say, you're wrong
The sky will fall down, the sky will fall down, now
That day won't come
We're over and done
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
Your twisted ways
When nothing knew
And I thought I knew
How to handle it this time
Thought I'd be doing fine
Time, time's, ticking by, still looking for the reasons why
You left, the day you
Come back, around
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
When you say, you're wrong
The sky will fall down, the sky will fall down, now
That day won't come
We're over and done
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
Now, whoa, whoa!
Is the sun, really going now?
Am I sure I don't want you around (Don't want you around)
If the moon fades to black
Oh, are you really gonna come?
The day you
Come back, around
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now
The world is gonna end, now!
Come back, around
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
When you say, you're wrong (You're wrong!)
The sky will fall down, the sky will fall down, now
That day won't come
We're over and done (Yeah we're done, yeah we're done)
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now (It's finally gonna end, it's gonna gonna end now)
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now (My world, my world.)
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now (Our world, our world.)
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now (Our world, our world.)
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now (Our world, our world.)
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now.
Everything about you, down to your last move
I thought you knew
Everything about me, like you were my diary
Time, time, ticking by, looking for the reasons why
You left, the day you
Come back, around
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
When you say, you're wrong
The sky will fall down, the sky will fall down, now
That day won't come
We're over and done
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
Your twisted ways
When nothing knew
And I thought I knew
How to handle it this time
Thought I'd be doing fine
Time, time's, ticking by, still looking for the reasons why
You left, the day you
Come back, around
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
When you say, you're wrong
The sky will fall down, the sky will fall down, now
That day won't come
We're over and done
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
Now, whoa, whoa!
Is the sun, really going now?
Am I sure I don't want you around (Don't want you around)
If the moon fades to black
Oh, are you really gonna come?
The day you
Come back, around
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now
The world is gonna end, now!
Come back, around
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
When you say, you're wrong (You're wrong!)
The sky will fall down, the sky will fall down, now
That day won't come
We're over and done (Yeah we're done, yeah we're done)
The world's gonna end, the world's gonna end, now
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now (It's finally gonna end, it's gonna gonna end now)
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now (My world, my world.)
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now (Our world, our world.)
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now (Our world, our world.)
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now (Our world, our world.)
The world's gonna end
The world's gonna end, now.
Lyrics submitted by atitkosblogos
World’s Gunna End Lyrics as written by Elizabeth Mace Chris Sernel
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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