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 on a private helicopter with my favorite ex girlfriend
Tiny little cabin in the sky
Now we're alone and we can remember how we felt before we were angry:
We were guilty and we were bitter
(I must admit I said a few things but...)
I'm still attracted to you
Sorry we've been so cold so
Eight miles high and three hours to landing
God your hair smells really great
I'm on a hovercraft to Paris with my former best friend
We have to get to the cinematheque
We're not alone but no one speaks english, so we're free
To look into each other's minds
And see what we're thinking like we always used to
I miss talking to you
But you never draw me out so
Cast off the ego scars and let's go hit the bars
I reserve the right to hold my grudges
Friends like you, you know the rest
But all told, I hold on to my anger far too long
Until it's a joke
The night is cold
The joke is old
(And poorly told, I told you once)
I'm on a private helicopter with my favorite ex-girlfriend,
No one to keep up appearances for
Now we're alone and we can remember how we felt at first;
The desperate need to be together
Must've been good for something, sugar
I'm still attracted to you
No one's making us do what we're supposed to
So lie here in my arms
Lie here in my arms
Tiny little cabin in the sky
Now we're alone and we can remember how we felt before we were angry:
We were guilty and we were bitter
(I must admit I said a few things but...)
I'm still attracted to you
Sorry we've been so cold so
Eight miles high and three hours to landing
God your hair smells really great
I'm on a hovercraft to Paris with my former best friend
We have to get to the cinematheque
We're not alone but no one speaks english, so we're free
To look into each other's minds
And see what we're thinking like we always used to
I miss talking to you
But you never draw me out so
Cast off the ego scars and let's go hit the bars
I reserve the right to hold my grudges
Friends like you, you know the rest
But all told, I hold on to my anger far too long
Until it's a joke
The night is cold
The joke is old
(And poorly told, I told you once)
I'm on a private helicopter with my favorite ex-girlfriend,
No one to keep up appearances for
Now we're alone and we can remember how we felt at first;
The desperate need to be together
Must've been good for something, sugar
I'm still attracted to you
No one's making us do what we're supposed to
So lie here in my arms
Lie here in my arms
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