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"
Ladies and gentlemen, Presenting the outrageous
I'm music without limelight, A guitarist without stages
I'm a Hells Angel without the Harley Davidson
You're a golden state warrior without Antawn Jamison
I'm your last laugh without a punchline
I'm a fistfight in your high school halls at lunchtime
I'm dangerous like car wrecks without that drunk driver
I'm that island that traps you and votes you off like survivor
I'm MacGyver without a red switchblade, I'm man-made
Graffiti on the walls without the aerosol spray
I'm a 30-second delay without the time limit
I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it
I'm that gold chain ready to be snatched from your neck
I'm that AIDS virus when you don't practice safe sex
I'm that hole in your latex that made your whole world crash
The most dangerous three letter word is Yas
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, nobody can do it like this
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, let's get it on like this
I'm your last bit of oxygen, I'm Waco Texas
I'm a 13-year-old kid stealing your Lexus
I'm a trilogy without the second and third sequels
I'm a crash test dummy without the smashed up vehicle
I'm everything you dream of, I'm life without death
I'm a respirator holding on to your last breath
I'm Bill Gates' Microsoft without Silicon Valley
I'm a natural born killer without Mickey or Mallory
You're a chair being thrown around at a Bobby Knight practice
I'm a cross between rival gangs and celebrity death matches
I attack this like pythons, I'm a living icon
You wanna see the apocalypse? Then turn my mic on
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, nobody can do it like this
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, let's get it on like this
One, two, one, two
I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it
One, two, one, two
I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it
One, two, one, two
I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it
One, two, one, two
I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, nobody can do it like this
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, let's get it on like this
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up (I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it)
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up (I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it)
I'm music without limelight, A guitarist without stages
I'm a Hells Angel without the Harley Davidson
You're a golden state warrior without Antawn Jamison
I'm your last laugh without a punchline
I'm a fistfight in your high school halls at lunchtime
I'm dangerous like car wrecks without that drunk driver
I'm that island that traps you and votes you off like survivor
I'm MacGyver without a red switchblade, I'm man-made
Graffiti on the walls without the aerosol spray
I'm a 30-second delay without the time limit
I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it
I'm that gold chain ready to be snatched from your neck
I'm that AIDS virus when you don't practice safe sex
I'm that hole in your latex that made your whole world crash
The most dangerous three letter word is Yas
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, nobody can do it like this
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, let's get it on like this
I'm your last bit of oxygen, I'm Waco Texas
I'm a 13-year-old kid stealing your Lexus
I'm a trilogy without the second and third sequels
I'm a crash test dummy without the smashed up vehicle
I'm everything you dream of, I'm life without death
I'm a respirator holding on to your last breath
I'm Bill Gates' Microsoft without Silicon Valley
I'm a natural born killer without Mickey or Mallory
You're a chair being thrown around at a Bobby Knight practice
I'm a cross between rival gangs and celebrity death matches
I attack this like pythons, I'm a living icon
You wanna see the apocalypse? Then turn my mic on
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, nobody can do it like this
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, let's get it on like this
One, two, one, two
I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it
One, two, one, two
I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it
One, two, one, two
I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it
One, two, one, two
I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, nobody can do it like this
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up, let's get it on like this
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up (I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it)
Somebody back-up (there's no room to stand up)
Stop and throw your hands up (I'm a shark-infested ocean, I dare you to dive in it)
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