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"
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taking my breath away
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taking my breath away
There's a whole wide world at 4 o'clock in the morning
Didn't have no place to go
With my luck run out, standing there on the pouring
My heart was feeling like a stone
Sick and tired and all alone
When I called out loud, something stirred in the darkness
Fingers running down my spine
Not a shape nor sound but coldness touching my face
I wasn't gonna hang around
My feet could hardly touch the ground
Oh so scared
I could feel those eyes follow me everywhere
I do yell help
God I hope somebody's listening I need a friend
Oh I know I have to say
It's taking my breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taking my breath away
Well I must admit finally in the daylight
Never seems to be the same
And you tell your friends, really was such a bad fright
They'll say it's drink that's gotten your brain
You'll think you'll maybe grow insane
Oh it's there
But to prove it you would have to go back again
And you'll yell help
Better pray somebody's listening you'll need a friend
Oh I know you have to say
It's taken your breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taken your breath away, your breath away
Crawling through the senses are the voices from the darkness
Calling all the forces from beyond the other side
What I know of all this I could say in just one sentence
Nothing
He was there the maniac before a madman and eccentric
Crazy people running scared from voices in the night
Believing what they say is right, that thief is in the bottle
Oh oh oh
Well it all comes back to what you thought in the first place
Can't be wrong it must be right
When you know you're caught you got to put on a brave face
Trace your steps into the night
Searching for another fright
Oh you'll be scared
You will feel those eyes follow you everywhere
You will yell help
Better hope somebody's listening you'll need a friend
Oh I know you'll have to say
It's taking your breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taking your breath away
Oh you'll have to say
It's taken your breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taken your breath away
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taken your breath away
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taken your breath away
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taken your breath away
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taken your breath away
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taking my breath away
There's a whole wide world at 4 o'clock in the morning
Didn't have no place to go
With my luck run out, standing there on the pouring
My heart was feeling like a stone
Sick and tired and all alone
When I called out loud, something stirred in the darkness
Fingers running down my spine
Not a shape nor sound but coldness touching my face
I wasn't gonna hang around
My feet could hardly touch the ground
Oh so scared
I could feel those eyes follow me everywhere
I do yell help
God I hope somebody's listening I need a friend
Oh I know I have to say
It's taking my breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taking my breath away
Well I must admit finally in the daylight
Never seems to be the same
And you tell your friends, really was such a bad fright
They'll say it's drink that's gotten your brain
You'll think you'll maybe grow insane
Oh it's there
But to prove it you would have to go back again
And you'll yell help
Better pray somebody's listening you'll need a friend
Oh I know you have to say
It's taken your breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taken your breath away, your breath away
Crawling through the senses are the voices from the darkness
Calling all the forces from beyond the other side
What I know of all this I could say in just one sentence
Nothing
He was there the maniac before a madman and eccentric
Crazy people running scared from voices in the night
Believing what they say is right, that thief is in the bottle
Oh oh oh
Well it all comes back to what you thought in the first place
Can't be wrong it must be right
When you know you're caught you got to put on a brave face
Trace your steps into the night
Searching for another fright
Oh you'll be scared
You will feel those eyes follow you everywhere
You will yell help
Better hope somebody's listening you'll need a friend
Oh I know you'll have to say
It's taking your breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taking your breath away
Oh you'll have to say
It's taken your breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taken your breath away
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taken your breath away
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taken your breath away
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taken your breath away
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taken your breath away
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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