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"
Tell me what you thought about when you were gone and so alone
The worst is over
You can have the best of me
We got older but we're still young
We never grew out of this feeling that we won't give up
Here we lay again
On two separate bedes
Sporting four posts
We here a familiar voice
From pictures drawn from
Memory
We reflect on
Miscommunications and misunderstandings
And missing each other too
Must do without to let go
Turn our music down
And we whisper
Say what you're thinking right now
Tell me what you thought about when you were gone and so alone
The worst is over
You can have the best of me
We got older but we're still young
We never grew out of this feeling that we won't give up
Jumping to conclusions
Made me fall away from you
I'm so glad that the truth
Has brought that together
Me and you
We're sitting on the ground (sitting on the ground)
And we whisper (and we whisper)
Say what you're thinking out loud
Tell me what you thought when you were gone and so alone
The worst is over
You can have the best of me
We got older but we're still young
We never grew out of the feeling that we won't give up
Turn our music down
And we whisper
We're sitting on the ground
And we whisper
We turn our music down
We're sitting on the ground
The next time I'm in town
We will kiss girl
We will kiss girl
Tell me what you thought about when you were gone and so alone
The worst is over
You can have the best of me
We got older but we're still young
We never grew out of this feeling that we won't
Feeling that we can't
We're not ready to give up
We got older but we're still young
We never grew out of this feeling that we won't give up
The worst is over
You can have the best of me
We got older but we're still young
We never grew out of this feeling that we won't give up
Here we lay again
On two separate bedes
Sporting four posts
We here a familiar voice
From pictures drawn from
Memory
We reflect on
Miscommunications and misunderstandings
And missing each other too
Must do without to let go
Turn our music down
And we whisper
Say what you're thinking right now
Tell me what you thought about when you were gone and so alone
The worst is over
You can have the best of me
We got older but we're still young
We never grew out of this feeling that we won't give up
Jumping to conclusions
Made me fall away from you
I'm so glad that the truth
Has brought that together
Me and you
We're sitting on the ground (sitting on the ground)
And we whisper (and we whisper)
Say what you're thinking out loud
Tell me what you thought when you were gone and so alone
The worst is over
You can have the best of me
We got older but we're still young
We never grew out of the feeling that we won't give up
Turn our music down
And we whisper
We're sitting on the ground
And we whisper
We turn our music down
We're sitting on the ground
The next time I'm in town
We will kiss girl
We will kiss girl
Tell me what you thought about when you were gone and so alone
The worst is over
You can have the best of me
We got older but we're still young
We never grew out of this feeling that we won't
Feeling that we can't
We're not ready to give up
We got older but we're still young
We never grew out of this feeling that we won't give up
Lyrics submitted by Lemieux66, edited by The Withered Grave
The Best of Me Lyrics as written by Thomas Gryskiewicz Michael Golla
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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