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"
when i sat
felt i had no where else to go
went in before the sun and god only knows
when i see your face it makes me think of that special place
stood out on the rocks and watched the stars all fall from grace
but i knew that it had to end some day
you just didnt know what words to say
constant fights getting stuck in my mind
i thought we knew enough to go and put them all behind
if i had the chance to make it all mend
i'd hold you in my arms and never let you go again
never let you go, never thought i'd know
never let you go, never thought i'd know
felt we needed to spend some time
you didnt want to i knew because i read your mind
when i think back to that day you went away
i wanted to follow you, you knew i didn't want to stay
felt i had no where else to go
went in before the sun and god only knows
when i see your face it makes me think of that special place
stood out on the rocks and watched the stars all fall from grace
but i knew that it had to end some day
you just didnt know what words to say
constant fights getting stuck in my mind
i thought we knew enough to go and put them all behind
if i had the chance to make it all mend
i'd hold you in my arms and never let you go again
never let you go, never thought i'd know
never let you go, never thought i'd know
felt we needed to spend some time
you didnt want to i knew because i read your mind
when i think back to that day you went away
i wanted to follow you, you knew i didn't want to stay
Lyrics submitted by madison1
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