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"
Now it's time to break it
Come on Come On
Come on Come on
Break it down
I wanted to break your chain, Yeah
Make the right choice in life
You gotta do it now
You gotta to do it now
You gotta to Ah Yeah
You gotta Oh
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Break it
Break it
Break the chain, break it for me
Free your spirit, set your soul free
Break the chain, feel it in your hands
Break the chain so nothing can hold us back
If you gonna break the chain, think of the main source (source)
Do your job and take the right course (course)
Don't let your mind don't play no tricks in the world; a lot of things to face
Your life in this world goes up and down
You gotta pay attention to stick around
Get this one thing straight in your brain
Set yourself free and break that chain
Break the chain, break it for me
Free your spirit, set your soul free
Break the chain, feel it in your hands
Break the chain so nothing can hold us back
Break the chain, break it for me
Free your spirit, set your soul free
Break the chain, feel it in your hands
Break the chain so nothing can hold us back
Your future is in your hands
Bass Bass
Break or fake or make your chain
And break that chain
Come on Come On
Break it Break it
Come on Come On
Break it Break it
Let nothing stand in your way
So get yourself together 'cause the music makes you better
You gotta rearrange, stand up and make that change
'Cause if you don't, then you won't and you never gonna see the perfect life in reality
Can you see what I mean, can you hear I what I say
Can I break it Ah Yeah (Ah Yeah), Yes I may
On a mission we go, sunshine or rain
Set yourself free but you gonna break that chain
Break the chain, break it for me
Free your sprit, set your soul free
Break the chain, feel it in your hands
Break the chain so nothing can hold us back
Break the chain, break it for me
Free your sprit, set your soul free
Break the chain, feel it in your hands
Break the chain so nothing can hold us back
Come on Come On
Come on Come on
Break it down
I wanted to break your chain, Yeah
Make the right choice in life
You gotta do it now
You gotta to do it now
You gotta to Ah Yeah
You gotta Oh
2 Unlimited
Break it
Break it
Break the chain, break it for me
Free your spirit, set your soul free
Break the chain, feel it in your hands
Break the chain so nothing can hold us back
If you gonna break the chain, think of the main source (source)
Do your job and take the right course (course)
Don't let your mind don't play no tricks in the world; a lot of things to face
Your life in this world goes up and down
You gotta pay attention to stick around
Get this one thing straight in your brain
Set yourself free and break that chain
Break the chain, break it for me
Free your spirit, set your soul free
Break the chain, feel it in your hands
Break the chain so nothing can hold us back
Break the chain, break it for me
Free your spirit, set your soul free
Break the chain, feel it in your hands
Break the chain so nothing can hold us back
Your future is in your hands
Bass Bass
Break or fake or make your chain
And break that chain
Come on Come On
Break it Break it
Come on Come On
Break it Break it
Let nothing stand in your way
So get yourself together 'cause the music makes you better
You gotta rearrange, stand up and make that change
'Cause if you don't, then you won't and you never gonna see the perfect life in reality
Can you see what I mean, can you hear I what I say
Can I break it Ah Yeah (Ah Yeah), Yes I may
On a mission we go, sunshine or rain
Set yourself free but you gonna break that chain
Break the chain, break it for me
Free your sprit, set your soul free
Break the chain, feel it in your hands
Break the chain so nothing can hold us back
Break the chain, break it for me
Free your sprit, set your soul free
Break the chain, feel it in your hands
Break the chain so nothing can hold us back
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