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"
The morning image from the satellite is all blue and green
And we've all got wounds to clean
Here's a rag, here's some gasoline
She wakes up fine and rested well
Released at last from in the sleeping cell
Breathing comes with ease
It's a sweet revenge
Built on a chemical ride
My medicine man is the best
Wires to the temples, place them on
Lace them on, let's see how we sound
It's all green to me
What a sweet revenge
It's all green to me
See them lift off one by one
I see a cool spot here let's bring her down
Pedal to the ground
A lovely mess
That I am blessed to see
Of me
She lifts her wings up high
Send her shrill of a lifetime until we die
All the dreams, details
Affected in the colored sky
The morning image from the satellite is all blue and green
And we've all got wounds to clean
Here's a rag, here's some gasoline
It's all green to me
{it lifts up your days in a single phase, I felt your hand}
{lift up your skies and all the other times, you realize}
And we've all got wounds to clean
Here's a rag, here's some gasoline
She wakes up fine and rested well
Released at last from in the sleeping cell
Breathing comes with ease
It's a sweet revenge
Built on a chemical ride
My medicine man is the best
Wires to the temples, place them on
Lace them on, let's see how we sound
It's all green to me
What a sweet revenge
It's all green to me
See them lift off one by one
I see a cool spot here let's bring her down
Pedal to the ground
A lovely mess
That I am blessed to see
Of me
She lifts her wings up high
Send her shrill of a lifetime until we die
All the dreams, details
Affected in the colored sky
The morning image from the satellite is all blue and green
And we've all got wounds to clean
Here's a rag, here's some gasoline
It's all green to me
{it lifts up your days in a single phase, I felt your hand}
{lift up your skies and all the other times, you realize}
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HERE ARE THE REAL LYRICS
The morning image from the satellites is all blue and green. And we've all got wounds to clean, here's a rag, here's some gasoline.
She wakes up fine and rested well, released at last from in the sleeping cell, breathing comes with ease. It's a sweet revenge, built on a chemical ride, my medicine man is the best wires to the temples, place them on let's see how we sound.
It's all green to me. What a sweet revenge. It's all green to me.
See them lift off one by one, I see a cool spot here let's bring her down. Level to the ground, a lovely mess that I am blessed to see, of me, of me
She lifts her wings up high, sensors show a lifetime until we die. And all the dreams' details perfected in the colored sky.
The morning image from the satellites is all blue and green. And we've all got wounds to clean, here's a rag, here's some gasoline. It's all green to me. (Lift up your skies and all the other times, you realize.) It's all green to me. (It lifts up your days in a single phase, I felt your hand.) It's all green to me. (Lift up your skies and all the other times, you realize.) It's all green to me. (It lifts up your days in a single phase.)