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"
I'm losing grip, I'm out of touch
Too late to say I've had enough (ah)
It's like every breath could be my last
My demons won't stay in the past (ah)
All alone
On my own
Pull me close, I feel the water reach around my neck
Don't let go, just show me that there's better days ahead
Make me see I'm only half the person I should be
Pull me close, set me free from this gravity
I can't move forward and keep looking back
Hindsight has left me where I'm at (ah)
Oh, I tried to run but I couldn't see
That you were right beside me (ah)
All alone
On my own
Pull me close, I feel the water reach around my neck
Don't let go, just show me that there's better days ahead
Make me see I'm only half the person I should be
Pull me close, set me free from this gravity
There is a light in the tunnel but it's distant
On my own I don't think that I can fix this
Set me free from this gravity
Pull me close, I feel the water reach around my neck
Don't let go, just show me that there's better days ahead
Make me see I'm only half the person I should be
Pull me close, set me free from this gravity
Pull me close, set me free from this gravity
Too late to say I've had enough (ah)
It's like every breath could be my last
My demons won't stay in the past (ah)
All alone
On my own
Pull me close, I feel the water reach around my neck
Don't let go, just show me that there's better days ahead
Make me see I'm only half the person I should be
Pull me close, set me free from this gravity
I can't move forward and keep looking back
Hindsight has left me where I'm at (ah)
Oh, I tried to run but I couldn't see
That you were right beside me (ah)
All alone
On my own
Pull me close, I feel the water reach around my neck
Don't let go, just show me that there's better days ahead
Make me see I'm only half the person I should be
Pull me close, set me free from this gravity
There is a light in the tunnel but it's distant
On my own I don't think that I can fix this
Set me free from this gravity
Pull me close, I feel the water reach around my neck
Don't let go, just show me that there's better days ahead
Make me see I'm only half the person I should be
Pull me close, set me free from this gravity
Pull me close, set me free from this gravity
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