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"
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
I had a dream
I had a dream when I was only five
To work at a bar, I wanted to see over the other side
And I had a friend, her name was Fern and she had a blue bike
So we'd ride through the streets
And I would sleep over on Saturday nights
Then I went to school
My family moved to a village nearby
At thirteen years old I started drawing black under my eyes
'Cause I met a boy, first time I kissed him, well it the last
'Cause I got afraid when everyone there started moving too fast
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I never took in when
I was just standing there wishing
I could grow up and my life would be different
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments
'Cause I've been so caught in the motion
Forgetting right where my home is
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
These are the moments I'm missing
In the back of her mum's car on the way to the old bars, yeah
Raising my anxiety using her sister's ID, yeah
In a skintight short skirt, sixteen and we danced 'til our feet hurt
But I had a dream, I had a goal
Got a guitar and a camera phone
Then over the time, I started racking up numbers online
At the end of July, I met somebody who changed my life
Then I was signed and falling in love for the very first time
But that fucked me up, so then I had issues with falling in love
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I never took in when
I was just standing there wishing
I could grow up and my life would be different
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments
'Cause I've been so caught in the motion
Forgetting right where my home is
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
These are the moments I'm missing
Born in the snow
Nothing there for me, I had to let go
Found the world on my own
Wondering, looking for where to call home
With a beat up guitar and a bunch of highways to endlessly roam
Never did have a car, but I got a few friends to help me along
Then I met a few girls in the City of Angels
Thought they all were the one, but they all ran away, so
I've been writing these songs
All about loving, about finding home
I'm alone, I don't know where to go, all I know is
These are the moments I'm missing (yeah)
'Cause I've been so caught in the motions
Forgotten right where my home is
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
These are the moments I'm missing
'Cause I've been so caught in the motions
Forgotten where my home is
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
I had a dream
I had a dream when I was only five
To work at a bar, I wanted to see over the other side
And I had a friend, her name was Fern and she had a blue bike
So we'd ride through the streets
And I would sleep over on Saturday nights
Then I went to school
My family moved to a village nearby
At thirteen years old I started drawing black under my eyes
'Cause I met a boy, first time I kissed him, well it the last
'Cause I got afraid when everyone there started moving too fast
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I never took in when
I was just standing there wishing
I could grow up and my life would be different
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments
'Cause I've been so caught in the motion
Forgetting right where my home is
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
These are the moments I'm missing
In the back of her mum's car on the way to the old bars, yeah
Raising my anxiety using her sister's ID, yeah
In a skintight short skirt, sixteen and we danced 'til our feet hurt
But I had a dream, I had a goal
Got a guitar and a camera phone
Then over the time, I started racking up numbers online
At the end of July, I met somebody who changed my life
Then I was signed and falling in love for the very first time
But that fucked me up, so then I had issues with falling in love
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I never took in when
I was just standing there wishing
I could grow up and my life would be different
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments
'Cause I've been so caught in the motion
Forgetting right where my home is
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
These are the moments I'm missing
Born in the snow
Nothing there for me, I had to let go
Found the world on my own
Wondering, looking for where to call home
With a beat up guitar and a bunch of highways to endlessly roam
Never did have a car, but I got a few friends to help me along
Then I met a few girls in the City of Angels
Thought they all were the one, but they all ran away, so
I've been writing these songs
All about loving, about finding home
I'm alone, I don't know where to go, all I know is
These are the moments I'm missing (yeah)
'Cause I've been so caught in the motions
Forgotten right where my home is
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
These are the moments I'm missing
'Cause I've been so caught in the motions
Forgotten where my home is
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
These are the moments I'm missing
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