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 got a patch. I got a pin. Obtained political beliefs from the same songs as my friends. I got a five finger discount to the little record store, its easier that to get the stiff I want out. And if you want fair compensation for the work that you do, well then your greedy, get out, we have amazing names to call you. Ever think that there's a difference who you're stealing from? So, fine, I'm not punk and you are (a moron). We're gonna tear this stupid city down. Throw our trash on the ground. (Whine Whine Whine when no bands come to town). Liberate that bottle of malt liquor! Oh, I get it. Anarchy means that you litter (nice!). So, if you're flying the flag, and you're naming the name, then you're setting back the ones who know how to behave. It's a good thing this repleneshes itself, or who would be left to take advantage of your "help"? Gonna drop our trash on you.
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...anarchy stems from the idea that... there has never been a government that ever existed (or will ever exist) that did not use force, fear and violence to sustain itself.
thus, if you are an idealist (or just believe that we can work for progression and change our own fate), then anarchy is the ideal we work toward because violence and fear will never bring happiness to all. OH, and anarchism started waaaaaaaaayy before punk rock...so check out stuff like "emma goldman's mother earth" and legit stuff before wearing your fucking anarchy patch little ignorant american kid.
check out (or spare yourself) some rolling stones magazine a little while back with that band Good Charlotte(tm) sporting a huge painted anarchy sign. i just threw up thinking about it.
vote jerry springer!