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"
Flooded by an ocean
Of some mixed emotions
They got you down again
Pride and passion Physical attraction
Whatever thing you're in
These temptations Causing you frustrations
What you need is a friend
Someone who loves you Who is above you
Take away all your sin
CHORUS
Help is on the way
Help is on the way
A mighty good leader is on the way
He's the only one gonna come to save the day
It's all right, yeah, uh-huh, it's OK
'Cause a mighty good leader is on the way
Now this someone
Knows where you come from
Doesn't care where you've been
He can put back, pieces that you lack
Make you whole again
Of some mixed emotions
They got you down again
Pride and passion Physical attraction
Whatever thing you're in
These temptations Causing you frustrations
What you need is a friend
Someone who loves you Who is above you
Take away all your sin
CHORUS
Help is on the way
Help is on the way
A mighty good leader is on the way
He's the only one gonna come to save the day
It's all right, yeah, uh-huh, it's OK
'Cause a mighty good leader is on the way
Now this someone
Knows where you come from
Doesn't care where you've been
He can put back, pieces that you lack
Make you whole again
Lyrics submitted by Cecil4029
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when i listen to this song i always picture like a battle and the soldiers are all tierd and beat up and about to give up but then a messenger comes and is like "dont worry! a mighty good leader is on the way!! he can give you direction." its like sometimes i feel really tierd of living for God and like its hopeless. but there IS a mighty good leader on the way. i love when they count to four in here : )
yeah gods the mighty good leader, doesnt care where youve been, a friend who can take away your sin.