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 all started with a dream
Two months like eternity
And in spite of all the problems
It was the best time of my life
We had promised ourselves
That trust and friendship last forever
But these two tiny things
Have already been too much
The second dream came way too soon
Promising an early end
But there was a second part
Maybe a chance for a new start
The first part is now fulfilled
There wasn't anything I could do
Now I just do what I can
To fulfill the second one
No more trust, I was betrayed
By a friend I thought I knew
I have lost so much more
Don't know what to do
And that single thought evoked
A pained look behind closed eyes
And I'll always wonder why
My best friend would tell me lies
Two months like eternity
And in spite of all the problems
It was the best time of my life
We had promised ourselves
That trust and friendship last forever
But these two tiny things
Have already been too much
The second dream came way too soon
Promising an early end
But there was a second part
Maybe a chance for a new start
The first part is now fulfilled
There wasn't anything I could do
Now I just do what I can
To fulfill the second one
No more trust, I was betrayed
By a friend I thought I knew
I have lost so much more
Don't know what to do
And that single thought evoked
A pained look behind closed eyes
And I'll always wonder why
My best friend would tell me lies
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