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"
You´re a dish, a honey, baby
But I guess you must´ve known, for sure
We were trying to save the world
We were about to light upon the final cure
Build like in a schoolboy´s dream
You got the power to make dreams come true
With your symmetry and size
You burst all seams
Breaking the hearts behind the screens
That bleed for you
I´m sorry - I did upset
You didn´t get the story
I wrote you love-letters instead
I didn´t mean to hurt you
Maybe we are too emotional
Too much heart too hard to handle
Cant´ya hear the choir´s chant
They´ll make you sing when they catch you
Take a hike and take a dive
Stay below, hold your breath
Til your lips turn blue
I´m sorry - I did upset
You didn´t get the story
I wrote you love-letters instead
I didn´t mean to hurt you
Maybe we are too emotional
Too much heart too hard to handle
Can´t hide my tears from you
Maybe we are too emotional
Too much hard too hard to handle
Late - whenever I awake
Whenever I try to escape
I want to run, but I am getting nowhere
Back - began to realize
Shook off the ghosts and all the sorrows
Bothering my mind
I left them all behind
But I guess you must´ve known, for sure
We were trying to save the world
We were about to light upon the final cure
Build like in a schoolboy´s dream
You got the power to make dreams come true
With your symmetry and size
You burst all seams
Breaking the hearts behind the screens
That bleed for you
I´m sorry - I did upset
You didn´t get the story
I wrote you love-letters instead
I didn´t mean to hurt you
Maybe we are too emotional
Too much heart too hard to handle
Cant´ya hear the choir´s chant
They´ll make you sing when they catch you
Take a hike and take a dive
Stay below, hold your breath
Til your lips turn blue
I´m sorry - I did upset
You didn´t get the story
I wrote you love-letters instead
I didn´t mean to hurt you
Maybe we are too emotional
Too much heart too hard to handle
Can´t hide my tears from you
Maybe we are too emotional
Too much hard too hard to handle
Late - whenever I awake
Whenever I try to escape
I want to run, but I am getting nowhere
Back - began to realize
Shook off the ghosts and all the sorrows
Bothering my mind
I left them all behind
Lyrics submitted by liquidmercurial
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