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 sat down to think aloud my
mind and what it's thinking
about a thousand things went
running through my mind and I
still tried chricks with whips and
anarchists some plitical
activists apocalyptic paranoids
say we've run out of time the
options were abundant and I
was overwhelmed should I write
about the time I thought I died
and went to hell but it's useless
to write about yours truly ig I
opened up to you would you
take the time to get to know me
I can't believe I mentioned it
I refuse to be affectionate
I'm sick fo wasting all these
thoughts about you but every
time I sit to write a song the
whole thing seems to come
out wrong I can't help but stop
to think the world about you
wondering why I'm thinking about
my life it seems it's inside out
a cross of thoughts and friends
and rhymes were laughing in my
head cynically find sympathy
while speaking altruistically it's
possible that growing old is
worth it weight in lead as time
keeps passing by can't help but
wonder why the future holds my
destiny but is it all a lie and
once again I start to think about
yours truly you don't agree to
conceieve what's important to me
I'll disregard your lack of showing
who am I? another guy wating
all my stupid thoughts wondeing
why still I shut the door but I
want more can't help but stop
to think the world about you
I don't care what you're saying
to me my life has changed so
drastically when the theist
begins to philosophize it'd be
just a waste of time
don't want to don't have to burn
a bridge and hear I hate you it's
just a waste of time
mind and what it's thinking
about a thousand things went
running through my mind and I
still tried chricks with whips and
anarchists some plitical
activists apocalyptic paranoids
say we've run out of time the
options were abundant and I
was overwhelmed should I write
about the time I thought I died
and went to hell but it's useless
to write about yours truly ig I
opened up to you would you
take the time to get to know me
I can't believe I mentioned it
I refuse to be affectionate
I'm sick fo wasting all these
thoughts about you but every
time I sit to write a song the
whole thing seems to come
out wrong I can't help but stop
to think the world about you
wondering why I'm thinking about
my life it seems it's inside out
a cross of thoughts and friends
and rhymes were laughing in my
head cynically find sympathy
while speaking altruistically it's
possible that growing old is
worth it weight in lead as time
keeps passing by can't help but
wonder why the future holds my
destiny but is it all a lie and
once again I start to think about
yours truly you don't agree to
conceieve what's important to me
I'll disregard your lack of showing
who am I? another guy wating
all my stupid thoughts wondeing
why still I shut the door but I
want more can't help but stop
to think the world about you
I don't care what you're saying
to me my life has changed so
drastically when the theist
begins to philosophize it'd be
just a waste of time
don't want to don't have to burn
a bridge and hear I hate you it's
just a waste of time
Lyrics submitted by d0rk0saurus
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NHOI IS DEFINETLY IN MY TOP FIVE LIST!!! i met them at the warped tour and bought their cd and they gave me a free sticker and pin...YOU GUYS ROCK! this song is good