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"
Speak, see, remember
The crimes it took to get you through
Deadbeat december
There's blood in the butter
The kitchens are closed for the holidays
You know that I've got to say
There's been a lot of talk
Since you're on to me
On daddy on
To find in the fishes
The creatures, the air
Been hangin' around
God loves ya, but what could he do?
Yeah, wha wha wha wha wha what could he do?
Passion and a lovin' suggestion
Gonna send ya into somebody's icy arms and now
Graphics will do the deal justice
It's a can't lose
Only two times or three or four or more
To find in the love in the creatures the air
You're hangin' around
God loves ya, but what could he do?
Quit hangin' around
God loves ya, but what could he do?
What could he do? Yeah
What could he do?
The terror twilight
It all to get down for it
The terror twilight
It all to get down for it
The terror twilight
It all to get down for it
The terror twilight
It all to get down
To love in the find in the creatures, the air
You're hangin' around
God loves ya, but what could he do?
My friend, you're hangin' around
God loves ya, but what could he do?
What could he do?
What?
Buy now
Develop the coast and raise the
Sight lines, the oceans are moving out and
Someday develop the coast and sell the air
You know if we could we'd sell the air
Stand back
Expansion is what we do the best
I don't see the grass and the fields
I see an epicenter with agendas and you are aware they must be next
I hope you're aware they must be next
Do it, do it, do it
The crimes it took to get you through
Deadbeat december
There's blood in the butter
The kitchens are closed for the holidays
You know that I've got to say
There's been a lot of talk
Since you're on to me
On daddy on
To find in the fishes
The creatures, the air
Been hangin' around
God loves ya, but what could he do?
Yeah, wha wha wha wha wha what could he do?
Passion and a lovin' suggestion
Gonna send ya into somebody's icy arms and now
Graphics will do the deal justice
It's a can't lose
Only two times or three or four or more
To find in the love in the creatures the air
You're hangin' around
God loves ya, but what could he do?
Quit hangin' around
God loves ya, but what could he do?
What could he do? Yeah
What could he do?
The terror twilight
It all to get down for it
The terror twilight
It all to get down for it
The terror twilight
It all to get down for it
The terror twilight
It all to get down
To love in the find in the creatures, the air
You're hangin' around
God loves ya, but what could he do?
My friend, you're hangin' around
God loves ya, but what could he do?
What could he do?
What?
Buy now
Develop the coast and raise the
Sight lines, the oceans are moving out and
Someday develop the coast and sell the air
You know if we could we'd sell the air
Stand back
Expansion is what we do the best
I don't see the grass and the fields
I see an epicenter with agendas and you are aware they must be next
I hope you're aware they must be next
Do it, do it, do it
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