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"
Took a train to the city
Thought something might be going down
But we found the dead heart
Of a dead town
In the streets that were usually living
It seemed everyone had given up
Torn it down
Worn it out
But we love it just the same
It’s in our blood it’s in our veins
We cut a hole through the pavement
Just trying to get to the core
We were reaching out
To the underground
We fucked with the fascists and racists
In the hope of hitting our own oil
To tap the ground
Of this tired town
But we love it just the same
It’s in our blood it’s in our veins
I love where I’m living
In this dead town
In the space between lost and found
I love where I’m living
On this backdrop
And I’m never gonna give it up
There you go
You throw it to the wind
You talk about the future
Stacking statements once again
We’re all the same
It’s in our blood it’s in our veins
It’s black & white
We’re the same inside
Thought something might be going down
But we found the dead heart
Of a dead town
In the streets that were usually living
It seemed everyone had given up
Torn it down
Worn it out
But we love it just the same
It’s in our blood it’s in our veins
We cut a hole through the pavement
Just trying to get to the core
We were reaching out
To the underground
We fucked with the fascists and racists
In the hope of hitting our own oil
To tap the ground
Of this tired town
But we love it just the same
It’s in our blood it’s in our veins
I love where I’m living
In this dead town
In the space between lost and found
I love where I’m living
On this backdrop
And I’m never gonna give it up
There you go
You throw it to the wind
You talk about the future
Stacking statements once again
We’re all the same
It’s in our blood it’s in our veins
It’s black & white
We’re the same inside
Lyrics submitted by Azazel23
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