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"
There are few things pure in this world anymore,
And home is one of the few.
We'd have a drink outside,
Maybe run and hide if we saw a couple men in blue.
To me it's so damn easy to see
That true people are the people at home.
Well, I've been away but now I'm back today,
And there ain't a place I'd rather go.
I feel home,
When I see the faces that remember my own.
I feel home,
When I'm chillin outside with the people I know.
I feel home,
And that's just what I feel.
Home is reality,
And all I need is something real.
Feelin alright, headin out tonight,
Maybe out to a dark driveway.
I say now some feel bored,
And some are lookin for more.
Well, we all just decide to stay.
We got nothin to do,
And I look at you
I see something that I know and love.
And with the crack of a smile we all stay a while
We know from home there ain't nothing above.
Well in the end we can all call a friend
Well that's something I know as true.
And then a thousand years and a thousand tears
I come to findingin(something's wrong here) my original crew
'Cause to me throughout eternity
There's somewhere where you're welcome to go
I said it's something free that means a lot to me
When I'm with my friends I feel home.
I feel home,
When I see the faces I remember my own
I feel home,
When I'm chillin outside with the people I know.
I feel home,
And that's just what I feel.
Home is reality,
And all I need something real
Home is reality,
And all I need something real
I feel home.
And home is one of the few.
We'd have a drink outside,
Maybe run and hide if we saw a couple men in blue.
To me it's so damn easy to see
That true people are the people at home.
Well, I've been away but now I'm back today,
And there ain't a place I'd rather go.
I feel home,
When I see the faces that remember my own.
I feel home,
When I'm chillin outside with the people I know.
I feel home,
And that's just what I feel.
Home is reality,
And all I need is something real.
Feelin alright, headin out tonight,
Maybe out to a dark driveway.
I say now some feel bored,
And some are lookin for more.
Well, we all just decide to stay.
We got nothin to do,
And I look at you
I see something that I know and love.
And with the crack of a smile we all stay a while
We know from home there ain't nothing above.
Well in the end we can all call a friend
Well that's something I know as true.
And then a thousand years and a thousand tears
I come to findingin(something's wrong here) my original crew
'Cause to me throughout eternity
There's somewhere where you're welcome to go
I said it's something free that means a lot to me
When I'm with my friends I feel home.
I feel home,
When I see the faces I remember my own
I feel home,
When I'm chillin outside with the people I know.
I feel home,
And that's just what I feel.
Home is reality,
And all I need something real
Home is reality,
And all I need something real
I feel home.
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