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"
Leave a message or leave me alone
What if the sky falls and shoves me into the ground?
Would you pray for me or would you pull me out?
Yeah, I know you're no angel, but I'm stuck right now
Don't walk away, pretending you don't know how
Like a fat kid suicide, believing they're wrong
And you were giving up early and going alone
Yeah, I know you're no angel, but I'm stuck for friends
And once I'm out, I won't be back there again
And if you're lonely
(You're lonely)
And you're cryin' all the time
(You're cryin')
Heaven help me
(Heaven help me)
'Cause your heart's as dead as mine
We all go slowly
(Go slowly)
And time is catching up
(Time is catching up)
If you would only
(Only)
Give me two more minutes of your twisted love
Every day it gets much better
Everyone's on your side
Skies colliding in your name
Strike it up and lights and step outside
'Cause you know what's going on
But if you're lonely
(You're lonely)
And you're cryin' all the time
(You're cryin')
Heaven help me
(Heaven help me)
'Cause your heart's as dead as mine
We all go slowly
(Go slowly)
And time is catching up
(Time is catching up)
If you would only
(Only)
Give me two more minutes of your twisted love
(Your twisted)
Your twisted love
(Your twisted)
Your twisted love
(Your twisted)
Your twisted love
What if the sky falls and shoves me into the ground?
Would you pray for me or would you pull me out?
Yeah, I know you're no angel, but I'm stuck right now
Don't walk away, pretending you don't know how
Like a fat kid suicide, believing they're wrong
And you were giving up early and going alone
Yeah, I know you're no angel, but I'm stuck for friends
And once I'm out, I won't be back there again
And if you're lonely
(You're lonely)
And you're cryin' all the time
(You're cryin')
Heaven help me
(Heaven help me)
'Cause your heart's as dead as mine
We all go slowly
(Go slowly)
And time is catching up
(Time is catching up)
If you would only
(Only)
Give me two more minutes of your twisted love
Every day it gets much better
Everyone's on your side
Skies colliding in your name
Strike it up and lights and step outside
'Cause you know what's going on
But if you're lonely
(You're lonely)
And you're cryin' all the time
(You're cryin')
Heaven help me
(Heaven help me)
'Cause your heart's as dead as mine
We all go slowly
(Go slowly)
And time is catching up
(Time is catching up)
If you would only
(Only)
Give me two more minutes of your twisted love
(Your twisted)
Your twisted love
(Your twisted)
Your twisted love
(Your twisted)
Your twisted love
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