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"
Unwritten, her name takes shape, as into circles she never even drew
Unwritten, her diary read that no one’s ever said that they came to see you
Your life, would beat it up to have just one reflection in this puddle that she has
And your out, you’ve been disconnected, there’s only room for one silhouette in this shadow that she casts
One down, and 38 more weeks ‘till she’ll have everything she wrote down on her list
And your life, has had it up to here with disoriented smiles of sorrow and grace
What a situation, what a situation you’ve put me into…
What a situation, what a situation you made me into…
Unwritten, her life is not what she hoped but July has come and everything has turned warm
Your life, you’re beating me with ease and I can sure ride on this cloud of every things
And I’m weary of the last time I lost my mind
Weary of the last time, but every time it eats me up inside
And I won’t let you out of sight cuz you’re so out of sight
And I can forget, for now I hold my head down alright
Clouds form and cast a shadow over your rainy day
Then I come, with a ray of sunlight to make you bright and open up to shine
What a situation, what a situation you’ve put me into…
What a situation, what a situation you made me into…
What a situation, what a situation you’ve put me into…
What a situation you’ve made me into…
Unwritten, her diary read that no one’s ever said that they came to see you
Your life, would beat it up to have just one reflection in this puddle that she has
And your out, you’ve been disconnected, there’s only room for one silhouette in this shadow that she casts
One down, and 38 more weeks ‘till she’ll have everything she wrote down on her list
And your life, has had it up to here with disoriented smiles of sorrow and grace
What a situation, what a situation you’ve put me into…
What a situation, what a situation you made me into…
Unwritten, her life is not what she hoped but July has come and everything has turned warm
Your life, you’re beating me with ease and I can sure ride on this cloud of every things
And I’m weary of the last time I lost my mind
Weary of the last time, but every time it eats me up inside
And I won’t let you out of sight cuz you’re so out of sight
And I can forget, for now I hold my head down alright
Clouds form and cast a shadow over your rainy day
Then I come, with a ray of sunlight to make you bright and open up to shine
What a situation, what a situation you’ve put me into…
What a situation, what a situation you made me into…
What a situation, what a situation you’ve put me into…
What a situation you’ve made me into…
Lyrics submitted by KevinOConnell
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