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"
Well I'm slowly waking up
To the screaming southern sun
Marching straight at me
Like soldiers through my eyes
And is this all I'll ever be?
Just so hungover in your sheets
And I'll be wondering about that all my life
But it's alright
It's getting better all the time
It's alright
Yeah, it's alright
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
You know we're falling together
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
And it just keeps getting better
Well I sit up on your bed
And you just biting at my neck
You're begging, "Baby, please don't
Baby, don't you leave"
But I gotta go and write these songs
So you don't have to get a job
And you just smile at me and drift back into sleep
But it's alright
It's getting better all the time
It's alright
Yeah, it's alright
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
You know we're falling together
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
And it just keeps getting better
Whoa, oh, oh, it keeps getting better
Whoa, oh, oh, (I said) it keeps getting better
Whoa, oh, oh, it keeps getting better
Whoa, oh, oh, it's whatever forever
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
You know we're falling together
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
And it just keeps getting better
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
You know we're falling together
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
And it just keeps getting better
I went and wrote this song
So you don't have to get a job
So just keep laying there and smiling in your sleep
To the screaming southern sun
Marching straight at me
Like soldiers through my eyes
And is this all I'll ever be?
Just so hungover in your sheets
And I'll be wondering about that all my life
But it's alright
It's getting better all the time
It's alright
Yeah, it's alright
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
You know we're falling together
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
And it just keeps getting better
Well I sit up on your bed
And you just biting at my neck
You're begging, "Baby, please don't
Baby, don't you leave"
But I gotta go and write these songs
So you don't have to get a job
And you just smile at me and drift back into sleep
But it's alright
It's getting better all the time
It's alright
Yeah, it's alright
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
You know we're falling together
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
And it just keeps getting better
Whoa, oh, oh, it keeps getting better
Whoa, oh, oh, (I said) it keeps getting better
Whoa, oh, oh, it keeps getting better
Whoa, oh, oh, it's whatever forever
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
You know we're falling together
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
And it just keeps getting better
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
You know we're falling together
And when the sun comes up
Like it always does
It's whatever forever
And it just keeps getting better
I went and wrote this song
So you don't have to get a job
So just keep laying there and smiling in your sleep
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