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"
I went to sleep last night wondering how I'd feel
if I woke up tomorrow and you were almost healed
If you could use your hands what would you use them for?
Would it be to strangle me?
Or just try to ignore,
The fact that they don't care.
Why they stop and stare why they put you in that
dusty metal chair Everyday is hard,
Hard for you to survive,
While we maintain this materialistic paradise.
Hold down, why don't you just lay awake and wash all over me.
I can hear you synchronize
I went to sleep last night wondering how I'd feel
If I woke up tomorrow and you were almost healed
If you could use your hands
What would you use them for?
Would it be to strangle me?
Or just try to ignore
The fact that they dont' care why they stop and stare,
Why they put you in that dusty dirty chair,
And everyday is hard
Hard for you to survive,
While we maintain this materialistic paradox.
I get high off you
I see the wave I'm calling
I hear the way you're falling
And I can see the things that you cannot do for
It just carries me away
and I see the wave I'm falling,
I hear the way you're calling,
and I can see the weight that's carried all on you
I see the wave I'm calling
I hear the wday you're falling
and I can carry all but just enough for you
I went to sleep last night wondering how I'd feel
If the world came crawling down on me
if I woke up tomorrow and you were almost healed
If you could use your hands what would you use them for?
Would it be to strangle me?
Or just try to ignore,
The fact that they don't care.
Why they stop and stare why they put you in that
dusty metal chair Everyday is hard,
Hard for you to survive,
While we maintain this materialistic paradise.
Hold down, why don't you just lay awake and wash all over me.
I can hear you synchronize
I went to sleep last night wondering how I'd feel
If I woke up tomorrow and you were almost healed
If you could use your hands
What would you use them for?
Would it be to strangle me?
Or just try to ignore
The fact that they dont' care why they stop and stare,
Why they put you in that dusty dirty chair,
And everyday is hard
Hard for you to survive,
While we maintain this materialistic paradox.
I get high off you
I see the wave I'm calling
I hear the way you're falling
And I can see the things that you cannot do for
It just carries me away
and I see the wave I'm falling,
I hear the way you're calling,
and I can see the weight that's carried all on you
I see the wave I'm calling
I hear the wday you're falling
and I can carry all but just enough for you
I went to sleep last night wondering how I'd feel
If the world came crawling down on me
Lyrics submitted by deviantd
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