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"
She makes all the guys at school
Turn their heads and start to drool
And I would marry her if I could
The star of every young boys dream
Well I surely would not have guessed
she starved herself to fit that dress
Well now the truth is out at last
That she's been on a two year fast
Oh Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Oh my Annie
Her mom went nuts when she heard the news
The girl's got way too much to lose
She never skipped class in her life
But she skipped dinner every time
I surely would not have guessed
She starved herself to fit that dress
She looked so fine how could I tell
That deep inside she wasn't well?
Oh Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Oh my Annie
Hangin' with her friends you know she looked so melancholy
She laughed at all my jokes but said she didn't find me funny
When it comes down to place the blame we'll pass by everybody
But me
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Oh my Annie
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Oh my Annie
Turn their heads and start to drool
And I would marry her if I could
The star of every young boys dream
Well I surely would not have guessed
she starved herself to fit that dress
Well now the truth is out at last
That she's been on a two year fast
Oh Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Oh my Annie
Her mom went nuts when she heard the news
The girl's got way too much to lose
She never skipped class in her life
But she skipped dinner every time
I surely would not have guessed
She starved herself to fit that dress
She looked so fine how could I tell
That deep inside she wasn't well?
Oh Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Oh my Annie
Hangin' with her friends you know she looked so melancholy
She laughed at all my jokes but said she didn't find me funny
When it comes down to place the blame we'll pass by everybody
But me
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Oh my Annie
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie,
Oh Annie's anorexic, Annie's Anorexic,
Oh my Annie
Lyrics submitted by iampunk
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It's basically just saying how this girl named Annie has been suffering from Anorexia for 2 years of her life. The lyrics basically speak for themselves.