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"
With black flags at half-mast
You're outclassed by your past
The last of the innocent men
The age group champion
With lungs that feel like leather
You're a lonely shade of gray
You tighten up the tether
You wind us up for days
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
The age group champion
Saved by the sound of the bell
The age group champion
Wouldn't know it if he fell
You're knees are locked
You wobble off
The catastrophic shock
With tongues that feel like leather
We're shouting out your name
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
The age group champion
Travel half-way round the moon
The age group champion
With the air sucked out of the room
With black flags at half-mast
The reach beyond your grasp
The last of the favorite sons
The age group champion
Your lungs are made of leather
There's acid in your veins
The age group champion
Long may you reign
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
The age group champion
The age group champion
You dance to a tune in a skeleton key
And you blaze right over the moon
I'm the age group champion [x10]
You're outclassed by your past
The last of the innocent men
The age group champion
With lungs that feel like leather
You're a lonely shade of gray
You tighten up the tether
You wind us up for days
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
The age group champion
Saved by the sound of the bell
The age group champion
Wouldn't know it if he fell
You're knees are locked
You wobble off
The catastrophic shock
With tongues that feel like leather
We're shouting out your name
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
The age group champion
Travel half-way round the moon
The age group champion
With the air sucked out of the room
With black flags at half-mast
The reach beyond your grasp
The last of the favorite sons
The age group champion
Your lungs are made of leather
There's acid in your veins
The age group champion
Long may you reign
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
I believe you'll recover
I believe you'll recover soon
The age group champion
The age group champion
You dance to a tune in a skeleton key
And you blaze right over the moon
I'm the age group champion [x10]
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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