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"
How many times do I have to try to tell you
That I'm sorry for the things I've done
But when I start to try to tell you
That's when you have to tell me
"Hey… this trouble's only just begun"
I tell myself too many times
Why don't you learn to keep your mouth shut
That's why it hurts so bad to hear the words
That keep on falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Tell me why?
I may be mad i may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking
What you are thinking, what are you thinking
I've heard it said too many times
You'd be better off besides
Why can't you see this boat is sinking
(This boat is sinking)
Let's go down to water's edge
We can cast away these doubts
Some things are better left unsaid
They still turn me inside out
Turning inside out, turning inside out
Tell me why?
Tell me why?
You tell me
This is the book I never read
The words I never said
The path I'll never tread
And the dreams I'll dream instead
The joy that's seldom spread
The tears that we shed the fear
And the dread
And the contents inside my head
These are the years they spent
This is what they represent
This is how I feel
Do you even know how I feel?
‘Cause if you know
I don't think you know how I feel
How can you know? You never asked me
Why? Why?
That I'm sorry for the things I've done
But when I start to try to tell you
That's when you have to tell me
"Hey… this trouble's only just begun"
I tell myself too many times
Why don't you learn to keep your mouth shut
That's why it hurts so bad to hear the words
That keep on falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Tell me why?
I may be mad i may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking
What you are thinking, what are you thinking
I've heard it said too many times
You'd be better off besides
Why can't you see this boat is sinking
(This boat is sinking)
Let's go down to water's edge
We can cast away these doubts
Some things are better left unsaid
They still turn me inside out
Turning inside out, turning inside out
Tell me why?
Tell me why?
You tell me
This is the book I never read
The words I never said
The path I'll never tread
And the dreams I'll dream instead
The joy that's seldom spread
The tears that we shed the fear
And the dread
And the contents inside my head
These are the years they spent
This is what they represent
This is how I feel
Do you even know how I feel?
‘Cause if you know
I don't think you know how I feel
How can you know? You never asked me
Why? Why?
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