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"
If this is true, I thought then, what will I think
Will I stay but rather I would get away
I'm scared that I won't"find a thing
And afraid that I'll turn out to be alone
But i, I have to learn, have to try, have to trust I have to cry
Have to see, have to know that I can be myself
And if I"could I would stay
And if they're not not in the way
I'll stare in the distance
But I'll grow up to be just like you-
I'll grow up to be just like you
I see it all I'm sure but do I know what's right I thought I knew
But it turns out the other way
I'm scared that I won't find a thing and afraid that I'll turn out to be alone
I have to learn, have to try, have to trust I have to cry
K have to see have to know that I can be myself
And if I could I would stay
and if they're not, not in the way
I'll!stare hgre in the distance
But I'll grow up to0be just like you
Yeah, I'll grow up to be just like you
I want to tell you
Why would I try to
You are all that I can see now
Why0would I try to
And I want to tell you
Why wOuld I try to
You are all I can see now
I know I'll trx to
I have to learn, have to try, I have to trust I had to cry
I have to see have to know that I can be myself
And if I could I would stay
And if they're not, not in the way
i'll stare in the distance
But i'll grov up to be just like you-
I'll grow up to be just like you
Like you
Will I stay but rather I would get away
I'm scared that I won't"find a thing
And afraid that I'll turn out to be alone
But i, I have to learn, have to try, have to trust I have to cry
Have to see, have to know that I can be myself
And if I"could I would stay
And if they're not not in the way
I'll stare in the distance
But I'll grow up to be just like you-
I'll grow up to be just like you
I see it all I'm sure but do I know what's right I thought I knew
But it turns out the other way
I'm scared that I won't find a thing and afraid that I'll turn out to be alone
I have to learn, have to try, have to trust I have to cry
K have to see have to know that I can be myself
And if I could I would stay
and if they're not, not in the way
I'll!stare hgre in the distance
But I'll grow up to0be just like you
Yeah, I'll grow up to be just like you
I want to tell you
Why would I try to
You are all that I can see now
Why0would I try to
And I want to tell you
Why wOuld I try to
You are all I can see now
I know I'll trx to
I have to learn, have to try, I have to trust I had to cry
I have to see have to know that I can be myself
And if I could I would stay
And if they're not, not in the way
i'll stare in the distance
But i'll grov up to be just like you-
I'll grow up to be just like you
Like you
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Indeed, Joekubrick. :D
And did you know they were a Dutch band? :D