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"
It says hold on and take this ride
And set aside
Memories of all the times
When you collide
Then you'll leave me here to die
Here's the things I meant
But never said
It says sit back and take the time
To lose your mind
And find out what its like to die
So where's my spine
When its time to give an obvious and simple reason why
I won't write again
What do you see
When you look at me
Do you take me for a fool
So what makes you play this game
With results always the same
And nothing but bad reputations to gain
It speaks to me like all is fine
And I could cry
From all the bends and breaks that I
Took this time
When happiness is based on lies
Its so hard its too hard to tell the truth
What do you see
When you look at me
Do you take me for a fool
This fool is through
This fool is through
This fool is through
What do you see
When you look at me
Do you take me for a fool
What do you see
When you look at me
Do you take me for a fool
It says hold on and take this ride
And set aside
Memories of all the times
When you collide
Then you'll leave me here to die
Here's the things I meant
But never said
And set aside
Memories of all the times
When you collide
Then you'll leave me here to die
Here's the things I meant
But never said
It says sit back and take the time
To lose your mind
And find out what its like to die
So where's my spine
When its time to give an obvious and simple reason why
I won't write again
What do you see
When you look at me
Do you take me for a fool
So what makes you play this game
With results always the same
And nothing but bad reputations to gain
It speaks to me like all is fine
And I could cry
From all the bends and breaks that I
Took this time
When happiness is based on lies
Its so hard its too hard to tell the truth
What do you see
When you look at me
Do you take me for a fool
This fool is through
This fool is through
This fool is through
What do you see
When you look at me
Do you take me for a fool
What do you see
When you look at me
Do you take me for a fool
It says hold on and take this ride
And set aside
Memories of all the times
When you collide
Then you'll leave me here to die
Here's the things I meant
But never said
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