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"
On a shameless night
In a nameless place
I thought that love was a hopeless case 'til I found you, 'til I found you
Lived a wasteful life in a hateful city
The world's no love just pain and pity 'til I found you, 'til I found you
And you don't know how you saved me
And you don't know what you gave me
And you don't know how you saved my life
I can see the light
I have flown away
I have come alive
I am blown away
I have felt the love
I can see the truth
Now that I found you, now that I found you
I can live my life
I believe in faith
I have found myself
I have lost the hate
I have felt the love
I can see the truth
Now that I found you, now that I found you (Yeah)
(Yeah)
On a shameless night
In a nameless place
I thought that love was a hopeless case 'til I found you, 'til I found you
Lived a wasteful life in a hateful city
The world's no love just pain and pity 'til I found you, 'til I found you
And you don't know how you saved my life
I can see the light
I have flown away
I have come alive
I am blown away
I have felt the love
I can see the truth
Now that I found you, now that I found you
Yeah
All my life
I've waited for this day
I've waited for you (For you)
Now I adore you
All my life
I've waited for this day (Now that I found you)
I've waited for you (Now that I found you)
Now I adore you (Now that I found you)
I can see the light
I have flown away
I have come alive
I am blown away
I have felt the love
I can see the truth
Now that I found you, now that I found you
Yeah
In a nameless place
I thought that love was a hopeless case 'til I found you, 'til I found you
Lived a wasteful life in a hateful city
The world's no love just pain and pity 'til I found you, 'til I found you
And you don't know how you saved me
And you don't know what you gave me
And you don't know how you saved my life
I can see the light
I have flown away
I have come alive
I am blown away
I have felt the love
I can see the truth
Now that I found you, now that I found you
I can live my life
I believe in faith
I have found myself
I have lost the hate
I have felt the love
I can see the truth
Now that I found you, now that I found you (Yeah)
(Yeah)
On a shameless night
In a nameless place
I thought that love was a hopeless case 'til I found you, 'til I found you
Lived a wasteful life in a hateful city
The world's no love just pain and pity 'til I found you, 'til I found you
And you don't know how you saved my life
I can see the light
I have flown away
I have come alive
I am blown away
I have felt the love
I can see the truth
Now that I found you, now that I found you
Yeah
All my life
I've waited for this day
I've waited for you (For you)
Now I adore you
All my life
I've waited for this day (Now that I found you)
I've waited for you (Now that I found you)
Now I adore you (Now that I found you)
I can see the light
I have flown away
I have come alive
I am blown away
I have felt the love
I can see the truth
Now that I found you, now that I found you
Yeah
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