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"
[chorus]
I can see the tears in your eyes
I can see that your words are dressed in lies
I can see that your heart hurts by the truth
But I can see the real you, no need for proof
People telling what's wrong and what's right
But they can't see, they don't know what happened last night
They only go by what society's drummed into their heads
That it's okay to be messy, but you have to lie in that bed
What about the bed you made when you told me that lie
You have to deal with it and society won't let you cry
You were decieving and deserve no second chance
But society wasn't there the night before last
[chorus]
"Innocent 'til proven guilty", that's how the court rule goes
But we're not in court, this is life and I don't care what sucker knows
Because there is no jury, I give the verdict; I'm giving the sentence out
It's up to me, not a load of strangers; they weren't the ones you fucked about
Whispers in my ear what I should think by insignificant souls
But it's up to me, why can't they stop intering, why when they've all been told?
So this is your chance to fight for your innocence although I know what's inside your heart
I told you that I'll always believe you, I've said that right from the start
[chorus]
I don't need the proof, I can see the real you
It's society that needs the proof, because they don't understand you
And society doesn't see the real you
I can see the tears in your eyes
I can see that your words are dressed in lies
I can see that your heart hurts by the truth
But I can see the real you, no need for proof
People telling what's wrong and what's right
But they can't see, they don't know what happened last night
They only go by what society's drummed into their heads
That it's okay to be messy, but you have to lie in that bed
What about the bed you made when you told me that lie
You have to deal with it and society won't let you cry
You were decieving and deserve no second chance
But society wasn't there the night before last
[chorus]
"Innocent 'til proven guilty", that's how the court rule goes
But we're not in court, this is life and I don't care what sucker knows
Because there is no jury, I give the verdict; I'm giving the sentence out
It's up to me, not a load of strangers; they weren't the ones you fucked about
Whispers in my ear what I should think by insignificant souls
But it's up to me, why can't they stop intering, why when they've all been told?
So this is your chance to fight for your innocence although I know what's inside your heart
I told you that I'll always believe you, I've said that right from the start
[chorus]
I don't need the proof, I can see the real you
It's society that needs the proof, because they don't understand you
And society doesn't see the real you
Lyrics submitted by pretty-in-punk
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