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"
I ask myself, "should I put my finger to the left?"
No
I ask myself, "should I put my finger to the right?"
No
Does it really matter where I put my finger?
Someone else will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
A little girl asked me should she part her hair upon the left, uh-uh-uh-oh
A little girl asked me should she part her hair upon the right, no
I said it really doesn't matter where you part your hair
For someone else will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
A little boy asked me should he put his vote upon the left?
A little boy asked me should he put his vote upon the right?
I say it really doesn't matter where you put your vote
'Cause someone else will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
Oh, it's just a complicated game
They wanted Tom
They wanted Joe
To dress 'em up and stick 'em out on show
They were only arrows in a very bad aim
It's just a complicated game
God asked me should he ought to put his world on the left, no
God asked me should he oughta put his world on the right, no
I said it doesn't really matter where you put your world
Someone will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
Just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
No
I ask myself, "should I put my finger to the right?"
No
Does it really matter where I put my finger?
Someone else will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
A little girl asked me should she part her hair upon the left, uh-uh-uh-oh
A little girl asked me should she part her hair upon the right, no
I said it really doesn't matter where you part your hair
For someone else will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
A little boy asked me should he put his vote upon the left?
A little boy asked me should he put his vote upon the right?
I say it really doesn't matter where you put your vote
'Cause someone else will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
Oh, it's just a complicated game
They wanted Tom
They wanted Joe
To dress 'em up and stick 'em out on show
They were only arrows in a very bad aim
It's just a complicated game
God asked me should he ought to put his world on the left, no
God asked me should he oughta put his world on the right, no
I said it doesn't really matter where you put your world
Someone will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
Just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
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