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 an open book
Just look inside
I've just been taken for a ride
I could break so easily
You could take advantage of me
Can't resist, I'm too far gone
This rebound love is much too strong
I see it all, the rise and fall
But I can't break free
Down at the carnival
There's always one guy
Sketching the faces of the passersby
In caricature
You're every girl that ever got away
Your hair in a twist
The line of your lips could lead this heart astray
I've been told be careful what you wish for
You might have hell to pay
You're more than you seem
Tonight I will dream
In caricature
I saw you on
The street today
A work of art in anime
A crushing glance
In crimson suede
That I can't unsee
Down at the carnival
There's always one guy
Sketching the fortunes of the passersby
In caricature
You're every girl that ever got away
The sound of your voice
The scent of your skin is more than words can say
I've been told be careful what you wish for
You might have hell to pay
It's larger than life
I'll dream you tonight
In caricature
And if we never recapture this night again
It will stay with me always
Remember again
Yeah
In caricature
You're every girl that ever got away
Your hair in a twist
The line of your lips could lead this heart astray
I've been told be careful what you wish for
You might have hell to pay
You're more than you seem
Tonight I will dream
In caricature
Whoa
Whoa
In caricature
In caricature
You're every girl that ever got away
Just look inside
I've just been taken for a ride
I could break so easily
You could take advantage of me
Can't resist, I'm too far gone
This rebound love is much too strong
I see it all, the rise and fall
But I can't break free
Down at the carnival
There's always one guy
Sketching the faces of the passersby
In caricature
You're every girl that ever got away
Your hair in a twist
The line of your lips could lead this heart astray
I've been told be careful what you wish for
You might have hell to pay
You're more than you seem
Tonight I will dream
In caricature
I saw you on
The street today
A work of art in anime
A crushing glance
In crimson suede
That I can't unsee
Down at the carnival
There's always one guy
Sketching the fortunes of the passersby
In caricature
You're every girl that ever got away
The sound of your voice
The scent of your skin is more than words can say
I've been told be careful what you wish for
You might have hell to pay
It's larger than life
I'll dream you tonight
In caricature
And if we never recapture this night again
It will stay with me always
Remember again
Yeah
In caricature
You're every girl that ever got away
Your hair in a twist
The line of your lips could lead this heart astray
I've been told be careful what you wish for
You might have hell to pay
You're more than you seem
Tonight I will dream
In caricature
Whoa
Whoa
In caricature
In caricature
You're every girl that ever got away
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
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