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"
All climb on
Whatever you've seen
Whatever it's done
All climb on
Whatever it takes
Whatever you're on
And the truth is we don't know
About how or why or where or when we go
Oh we must be very brave
I came here for eternity
It took my breath away
Then I was told I couldn't stay
All climb on
The bodies you've left
The battles you've won
Oh we're up all naked
It's not that complicated
I climb on
By chance of grand design
We were built to climb
It's a sign
Climb on
And the truth is we don't know
About how or why or where or when we go
In the end no matter what
I'm gonna make the most of what precious time I've got
From the cradle to the grave
To take those opportunities I must be very brave
Could it all be a mistake
Too scared to care
Too hurt to love
Enough
Climb on
Too scared to breathe
In here with me
My love
Climb on
It's my soul transmission
A higher calling, call it love
Climb on
All my life these visions
Telling me to keep on fighting
Climb on
Too scared to care
Too hurt to love
Enough
Climb on
Too scared to breathe
In here with me
My love
Climb on
Whatever you've seen
Whatever it's done
All climb on
Whatever it takes
Whatever you're on
And the truth is we don't know
About how or why or where or when we go
Oh we must be very brave
I came here for eternity
It took my breath away
Then I was told I couldn't stay
All climb on
The bodies you've left
The battles you've won
Oh we're up all naked
It's not that complicated
I climb on
By chance of grand design
We were built to climb
It's a sign
Climb on
And the truth is we don't know
About how or why or where or when we go
In the end no matter what
I'm gonna make the most of what precious time I've got
From the cradle to the grave
To take those opportunities I must be very brave
Could it all be a mistake
Too scared to care
Too hurt to love
Enough
Climb on
Too scared to breathe
In here with me
My love
Climb on
It's my soul transmission
A higher calling, call it love
Climb on
All my life these visions
Telling me to keep on fighting
Climb on
Too scared to care
Too hurt to love
Enough
Climb on
Too scared to breathe
In here with me
My love
Climb on
Lyrics submitted by Gabigs
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