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"
[Verse 1]
We were thinking we were wise
There was a moment you and I
We saw a stranger cross our lives
That we could make it if we tried
And now this car won't drive this road
There are some thing I should've known
There are some things on my mind
But I won't pick up the line
[Chorus]
'Cause I don't have the heart to mend
I don't wanna finish what we started
I think it could be an honest man
But I’m the woman who is just too guarded
We know it's a big mistake
Nothing at all the ones we'll make
Nothing left to do, but let it lie
But let's not wait till water's running dry
[Verse 2]
Now, I don't wanna compromise
'Cause, baby, both of us have tried
You know it hurts me letting go
It hurts me more than I could show
I close my eyes, see an open road
There are some things I wanna know
There are some things on my mind
But I don't know how to see it right
[Chorus]
'Cause I don't have the heart to mend
I don't wanna finish what we started
I think it could be an honest man
But I’m the woman who is just too guarded
We know it's a big mistake
Nothing at all the ones we'll make
Nothing left to do, but let it lie
But let's not wait till water's running dry
[Brige]
Don't wait up for me
I'm not coming home
I'm not tired
Gonna drive all night
Don't wait up for me
I'm not answering my phone
I'n headed north on the [?] til it's light
Don't wait for me (don't wait for me)
Might not hear from me for a while
[Chorus]
'Cause I don't have the heart to mend
We can never finish what we started
You could't be an honest man
So how could I be the woman you wanted?
It took us so long to find
Water’s almost there in my eyes
Nothing left to do but cut the line
Let's not wait till water's running dry
We were thinking we were wise
There was a moment you and I
We saw a stranger cross our lives
That we could make it if we tried
And now this car won't drive this road
There are some thing I should've known
There are some things on my mind
But I won't pick up the line
[Chorus]
'Cause I don't have the heart to mend
I don't wanna finish what we started
I think it could be an honest man
But I’m the woman who is just too guarded
We know it's a big mistake
Nothing at all the ones we'll make
Nothing left to do, but let it lie
But let's not wait till water's running dry
[Verse 2]
Now, I don't wanna compromise
'Cause, baby, both of us have tried
You know it hurts me letting go
It hurts me more than I could show
I close my eyes, see an open road
There are some things I wanna know
There are some things on my mind
But I don't know how to see it right
[Chorus]
'Cause I don't have the heart to mend
I don't wanna finish what we started
I think it could be an honest man
But I’m the woman who is just too guarded
We know it's a big mistake
Nothing at all the ones we'll make
Nothing left to do, but let it lie
But let's not wait till water's running dry
[Brige]
Don't wait up for me
I'm not coming home
I'm not tired
Gonna drive all night
Don't wait up for me
I'm not answering my phone
I'n headed north on the [?] til it's light
Don't wait for me (don't wait for me)
Might not hear from me for a while
[Chorus]
'Cause I don't have the heart to mend
We can never finish what we started
You could't be an honest man
So how could I be the woman you wanted?
It took us so long to find
Water’s almost there in my eyes
Nothing left to do but cut the line
Let's not wait till water's running dry
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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