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 remember way back when,
way back when, times weren't this hard,
no they weren't this hard and every one had what you call a sane mind.
Roses are red, well, blood is too.
I found that out, when I needed you.
Cause remember that one time you promised me, yeah?! No wait, it was more than once, now wasn't it, ha! No just wait.
How many little promises, Precious little promises, those precious little promises that you have broken to me...
Where's your morals, lost with your mind, your head must be, where the sun don't shine, where's your morals, lost with your mind.
Hangin' on a rope as thin as you.
I want you, as you want me right now, that luxury life ain't for you any how.
I want you, as you want me, in black & white, oh can't ya' see.
Those blackened clouds that linger over you and me, are gonna kill us, can't you see.
Your love has infected me, like that big, bad disease, your love has affected me.
How many times ya' gonna nail me,
To the cross, with all those promises that you have broken to me
way back when, times weren't this hard,
no they weren't this hard and every one had what you call a sane mind.
Roses are red, well, blood is too.
I found that out, when I needed you.
Cause remember that one time you promised me, yeah?! No wait, it was more than once, now wasn't it, ha! No just wait.
How many little promises, Precious little promises, those precious little promises that you have broken to me...
Where's your morals, lost with your mind, your head must be, where the sun don't shine, where's your morals, lost with your mind.
Hangin' on a rope as thin as you.
I want you, as you want me right now, that luxury life ain't for you any how.
I want you, as you want me, in black & white, oh can't ya' see.
Those blackened clouds that linger over you and me, are gonna kill us, can't you see.
Your love has infected me, like that big, bad disease, your love has affected me.
How many times ya' gonna nail me,
To the cross, with all those promises that you have broken to me
Lyrics submitted by SMUSER35620
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