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 want to scream, I want to shout
I want to know what it's all about
I've seen it before, but not like this
I saw your name, it was on the list
By 4 o'clock (It's gonna change)
You were pretty high (It's gonna change)
Lying on the floor (It's gonna change)
Looking at the sky (It's gonna change)
I remember you (It's gonna change)
When you were a kid (It's gonna change)
It was pretty strange (It's gonna change)
The things you did
You've got to pull yourself together man
You've got to get back on your feet again
How can I ever make you understand ?
You've got the world right in your hand
No cold heart could turn away
And not be moved by what I saw today:
There on the floor, thirty years or more
He doesn't care, he just wants to score
By 4 o'clock (It's gonna change)
You were pretty high (It's gonna change)
Lying on the floor (It's gonna change)
Looking at the sky (It's gonna change)
I remember you (It's gonna change)
When you were a kid (It's gonna change)
It was pretty strange (It's gonna change)
The things you did
You've got to pull yourself together man
You've got to get back on your feet again
How can I ever make you understand ?
You've got the world right in your hand
You've got to pull yourself together man
You've got to get back on your feet again
How can I ever make you understand ?
You've got the world right in your hand
Yet it only seems just like yesterday
We used to run and hide
Remember in the park where we used to play
The grass looked ten foot high
You've got to pull yourself together man
You've got to get back on your feet again
How can I ever make you understand ?
You've got the world right in your hand
You've got to pull yourself together man
You've got to get back on your feet again
How can I ever make you understand ?
You've got the world right in your hand
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