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"
A downtown cafe Saturday evenin' and the
Place is about to be closed I'm meeting my baby
Yeah and order my hundredth cup of coffee today
My hands are shakin'
At half past seven I'm sittin here waitin' for
My boy all alone for too long it's after eleven
Yeah I'm tired of waitin' and I'm gonna go home
Cause I don't need this
You never think twice before you break all the rules
You gotta be crazy if you think I'm a fool
I'll walk away and say good bye
If you don't want me anymore
I've got my pride
I'll walk away and say good bye
If I don't get the love we had before
Not satisfied
He finally gets here I'm waitin' for him to ask me
Why there's a frown on my face he orders a
Cold beer he has an excuse about his car
Breakin' down but I don't buy it
You're givin' me somethin' I don't need anymore
Just gimme the word and I'll be slammin' the door
I'll walk away and say good bye
If you don't want me anymore
I've got my pride
I'll walk away and say good bye
If I don't get the love we had before
Not satisfied
His best intentions are never the same as what
He does of the end of the day I'm feelin' the
Tension yeah don't gimme no reasons cause you
Don't comprehend what am I feelin'
You never think twice before you break all the rules
You gotta be crazy if you think I'm a fool
You're givin' me somethin' I don't need anymore
Just gimme the word and I'll be slammin' the door
I'll walk away and say good bye
If you don't want me anymore
I've got my pride
I'll walk away and say good bye
If I don't get the love we had before
Not satisfied
I'll walk away and say good bye
If you don't want me anymore
I've got my pride
I'll walk away and say good bye
If I don't get the love we had before
Not satisfied
So tell me now
Just say the word
It won't be long
I'll be long long gone...
Place is about to be closed I'm meeting my baby
Yeah and order my hundredth cup of coffee today
My hands are shakin'
At half past seven I'm sittin here waitin' for
My boy all alone for too long it's after eleven
Yeah I'm tired of waitin' and I'm gonna go home
Cause I don't need this
You never think twice before you break all the rules
You gotta be crazy if you think I'm a fool
I'll walk away and say good bye
If you don't want me anymore
I've got my pride
I'll walk away and say good bye
If I don't get the love we had before
Not satisfied
He finally gets here I'm waitin' for him to ask me
Why there's a frown on my face he orders a
Cold beer he has an excuse about his car
Breakin' down but I don't buy it
You're givin' me somethin' I don't need anymore
Just gimme the word and I'll be slammin' the door
I'll walk away and say good bye
If you don't want me anymore
I've got my pride
I'll walk away and say good bye
If I don't get the love we had before
Not satisfied
His best intentions are never the same as what
He does of the end of the day I'm feelin' the
Tension yeah don't gimme no reasons cause you
Don't comprehend what am I feelin'
You never think twice before you break all the rules
You gotta be crazy if you think I'm a fool
You're givin' me somethin' I don't need anymore
Just gimme the word and I'll be slammin' the door
I'll walk away and say good bye
If you don't want me anymore
I've got my pride
I'll walk away and say good bye
If I don't get the love we had before
Not satisfied
I'll walk away and say good bye
If you don't want me anymore
I've got my pride
I'll walk away and say good bye
If I don't get the love we had before
Not satisfied
So tell me now
Just say the word
It won't be long
I'll be long long gone...
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