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 the lucky one
Always having fun
I tie back my hair
I sit and watch T.V.
I see only me
Though I look for you there
Oh, where have you gone?
Were you canceled?
I change to channel 2
You were the one
Who gave me all my answers
I changed
So did you
Try another show
with the volume low
I make up what they say
Where it used to be your face
Is an empty face
Your co-stars look away
Oh, where have you gone
And do you miss me
And what we used to do?
You were the one
Who'd talk and smile for half an hour
Always new
I'm the lucky one
I watch a re-run
It looks a lot like you
One star lost a family
One family lost a star
That's why I wait and watch
To find out where you are
One family lost a star
One star, they lost their family
That's why I sit at home alone
And watch T.V.
I can watch forever
I can watch for hours
It just gets better
It gives me power
I can watch for hours
I can watch forever
It gives me pleasure
It makes me better
I'm the lucky one
Always having fun
Always having fun
I tie back my hair
I sit and watch T.V.
I see only me
Though I look for you there
Oh, where have you gone?
Were you canceled?
I change to channel 2
You were the one
Who gave me all my answers
I changed
So did you
Try another show
with the volume low
I make up what they say
Where it used to be your face
Is an empty face
Your co-stars look away
Oh, where have you gone
And do you miss me
And what we used to do?
You were the one
Who'd talk and smile for half an hour
Always new
I'm the lucky one
I watch a re-run
It looks a lot like you
One star lost a family
One family lost a star
That's why I wait and watch
To find out where you are
One family lost a star
One star, they lost their family
That's why I sit at home alone
And watch T.V.
I can watch forever
I can watch for hours
It just gets better
It gives me power
I can watch for hours
I can watch forever
It gives me pleasure
It makes me better
I'm the lucky one
Always having fun
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brady bunch! "Where it used to be your face Is an empty space Your co-stars look away. " im sorry, im not feeling very insightful today..