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"
Oh, oh, oh
I saw you with him today
The boy who took my place
You seemed so much happier with me
Maybe that's just the way I want it to be
I heard that you've been asking 'bout me
'Least that's what tears were telling me
I gave you up such a long time ago
But everyday I wonder why I ever let you go
Now it's just another one of those days
Where you may not feel so right
The way you fit into my arms at night
I'll remember that feeling for the rest of my life
But it's just another one of those days
I can't help but feel a little obsessed
About the things you and I never had
I had the world but instead I threw it all away
And now it's just another one of those days
Oh, oh, oh
Does he really give you all that you need?
Does he feel better than me?
I find it hard to believe
Why don't you tell me to believe?
Why did you let me feel?
Is that the way it's got to be?
What's wrong with me?
Why don't you tell me to believe?
Why don't you make him leave?
It's not the way this has to be
But it's just another one of those days
Where you may not feel so right
The way you fit into my arms at night
I'll remember that feeling for the rest of my life
But it's just another one of those days
I can't help but feel a little obsessed
About the things you and I never had
I had the world but instead I threw it all away
And now it's just another one of those days
Oh, oh, oh
I saw you with him today
The boy who took my place
You seemed so much happier with me
Maybe that's just the way I want it to be
I heard that you've been asking 'bout me
'Least that's what tears were telling me
I gave you up such a long time ago
But everyday I wonder why I ever let you go
Now it's just another one of those days
Where you may not feel so right
The way you fit into my arms at night
I'll remember that feeling for the rest of my life
But it's just another one of those days
I can't help but feel a little obsessed
About the things you and I never had
I had the world but instead I threw it all away
And now it's just another one of those days
Oh, oh, oh
Does he really give you all that you need?
Does he feel better than me?
I find it hard to believe
Why don't you tell me to believe?
Why did you let me feel?
Is that the way it's got to be?
What's wrong with me?
Why don't you tell me to believe?
Why don't you make him leave?
It's not the way this has to be
But it's just another one of those days
Where you may not feel so right
The way you fit into my arms at night
I'll remember that feeling for the rest of my life
But it's just another one of those days
I can't help but feel a little obsessed
About the things you and I never had
I had the world but instead I threw it all away
And now it's just another one of those days
Oh, oh, oh
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