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 was so close to it
your words had a sting
for the first time I noticed
a tick in your cheek
one hand on the jar
one hand on my heart
thinking about it, I'm thinking about it
I was so close to it, I was so close to it
your words had a bite,
your words had a right
sometimes I forget
sometimes I forget
and your problems seem unreal to me
sometimes I forget
sometimes I forget
and your problems seem so unreal
I get a taste of it
where there is pain
in a town like this
in a town that's like death
I could taste the soot
in the rain and the words
stuck in my mouth to the roof of my mouth
I am searching
I am able to walk right by without missing
I'm ashamed that I waited
to cross the street to avoid your look
sometimes I forget
sometimes I forget
and your problems seem unreal to me
sometimes I forget
sometimes I forget
and your problems seem so unreal
sometimes I forget.. (x4)
your words had a sting
for the first time I noticed
a tick in your cheek
one hand on the jar
one hand on my heart
thinking about it, I'm thinking about it
I was so close to it, I was so close to it
your words had a bite,
your words had a right
sometimes I forget
sometimes I forget
and your problems seem unreal to me
sometimes I forget
sometimes I forget
and your problems seem so unreal
I get a taste of it
where there is pain
in a town like this
in a town that's like death
I could taste the soot
in the rain and the words
stuck in my mouth to the roof of my mouth
I am searching
I am able to walk right by without missing
I'm ashamed that I waited
to cross the street to avoid your look
sometimes I forget
sometimes I forget
and your problems seem unreal to me
sometimes I forget
sometimes I forget
and your problems seem so unreal
sometimes I forget.. (x4)
Lyrics submitted by crabsmack
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