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"
The greatest love that you’ll ever read,
is in a book of fairytales and mystery.
Where all the troubles are black and white
and all you see is heaven from the open sight,
when you are crying, crying too slow.
They say that everyone’s happy there,
by the untamed rivers, floating with the breeze.
The sweet affection of thousand tears,
a better wish for silence, the flowers and the trees.
What’s the greatest love that you’ll ever be,
a face in the mirror?
What’s the greatest love that you’ll ever be,
if I could never read?
When your heart is a lonely place,
and your mind is plain at the back of the race,
and when your money becomes a bribe,
and all the people you hate seems like the friends of your life,
and you’re dying,
dying too slow.
Don’t take the irony seriously,
cause all the faces you know they are all versions of you,
so don’t be selfish and cynical,
cause all the problems you have are all created by you,
so don’t you hate me-
Cause I’m the greatest love that you’ll ever be,
a face in the mirror.
Yes, I’m the greatest love that you’ll ever be,
but when you turn off the lights.
Stuck in the back,
I’m your reason to be sorry,
I’m the devil, I’m your crack,
I’m the maker of your worries.
‘Till the break of your neck
I’m your pain until you die,
in bitterness, in better days, the cheater of a lie.
I’m your president, hypocrisy for beggars and the blind,
I’m the sick manipulator of the beauties that you find.
On the biggest contradiction for the pain you love the most,
I am your life, I am your hope,
yes I am Jesus, I’m your satisfaction.
I’m the greatest love that you’ll ever be, a face in the mirror.
I’m the greatest love that you’ll ever be, but life is just misery.
Cause when the greatest love is a cup of tea and a road to suicide,
then the greatest love is just what you need.
So come on!
is in a book of fairytales and mystery.
Where all the troubles are black and white
and all you see is heaven from the open sight,
when you are crying, crying too slow.
They say that everyone’s happy there,
by the untamed rivers, floating with the breeze.
The sweet affection of thousand tears,
a better wish for silence, the flowers and the trees.
What’s the greatest love that you’ll ever be,
a face in the mirror?
What’s the greatest love that you’ll ever be,
if I could never read?
When your heart is a lonely place,
and your mind is plain at the back of the race,
and when your money becomes a bribe,
and all the people you hate seems like the friends of your life,
and you’re dying,
dying too slow.
Don’t take the irony seriously,
cause all the faces you know they are all versions of you,
so don’t be selfish and cynical,
cause all the problems you have are all created by you,
so don’t you hate me-
Cause I’m the greatest love that you’ll ever be,
a face in the mirror.
Yes, I’m the greatest love that you’ll ever be,
but when you turn off the lights.
Stuck in the back,
I’m your reason to be sorry,
I’m the devil, I’m your crack,
I’m the maker of your worries.
‘Till the break of your neck
I’m your pain until you die,
in bitterness, in better days, the cheater of a lie.
I’m your president, hypocrisy for beggars and the blind,
I’m the sick manipulator of the beauties that you find.
On the biggest contradiction for the pain you love the most,
I am your life, I am your hope,
yes I am Jesus, I’m your satisfaction.
I’m the greatest love that you’ll ever be, a face in the mirror.
I’m the greatest love that you’ll ever be, but life is just misery.
Cause when the greatest love is a cup of tea and a road to suicide,
then the greatest love is just what you need.
So come on!
Lyrics submitted by Schnoffgozzler
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