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"
No one to guide
You were the one who told me not to
Look back in regret
Taught me to hold on brave the sorrow
At least that's what you said
You abandoned it all and left like that
Disappeared and dropped the pen
I can't finish a book I never wrote
A single letter in
My trust in you was gone
The moment you refused to carry on
With no one to guide
I didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
Now I'm here with no one to guide
(No one to guide)
I didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
It's coming clear
I take the pen and
Continue where you left off
I'm in charge of filling the pages
So they'll turn out for the best
And the reason for all reveals itself
In a moment I'm alone
'Cause your story that I'm supposed to close
Has always been my own
My trust in you was gone
But I can choose to carry on
With no one to guide
Didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
And I can never stop walking it down
To the end of the road
The final chapters still unknown
Maybe your journey ends today
But this is not the end for me
Still there's no time to stop and hide my face
I can't win this race with my eyes shut
Can't go back to the start
Let it all fall apart
It's too late, the final chapter awaits me
With no one to guide
Didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
You paved my way
With no one to guide
Didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
And I can never stop walking it down
Heading straight to the unknown
A story ends today
But not for me
With no one guide (no one to guide)
Didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight (yeah)
When you paved my way
Now I'm here with no one to guide
(No one to guide)
I didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
You were the one who told me not to
Look back in regret
Taught me to hold on brave the sorrow
At least that's what you said
You abandoned it all and left like that
Disappeared and dropped the pen
I can't finish a book I never wrote
A single letter in
My trust in you was gone
The moment you refused to carry on
With no one to guide
I didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
Now I'm here with no one to guide
(No one to guide)
I didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
It's coming clear
I take the pen and
Continue where you left off
I'm in charge of filling the pages
So they'll turn out for the best
And the reason for all reveals itself
In a moment I'm alone
'Cause your story that I'm supposed to close
Has always been my own
My trust in you was gone
But I can choose to carry on
With no one to guide
Didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
And I can never stop walking it down
To the end of the road
The final chapters still unknown
Maybe your journey ends today
But this is not the end for me
Still there's no time to stop and hide my face
I can't win this race with my eyes shut
Can't go back to the start
Let it all fall apart
It's too late, the final chapter awaits me
With no one to guide
Didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
You paved my way
With no one to guide
Didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
And I can never stop walking it down
Heading straight to the unknown
A story ends today
But not for me
With no one guide (no one to guide)
Didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight (yeah)
When you paved my way
Now I'm here with no one to guide
(No one to guide)
I didn't think that you would
Leave me here all alone tonight
When you paved my way
Lyrics submitted by AdamArtz
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