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"
So you look at me and tell me you're ready
Well I don't know because your hands aren't steady
You'll never be important to me
When I was a young boy, my father said to me
Don't you wear yourself out on alcohol
Give in to its slavery
But who am I to listen, call it an omission
Of a clear cut path to victory
But is there any point of being on top
when there's no memory
But I broke down just yesterday
I couldn't sleep, I couldn't say your name
And I want you
And I want you
So you look at me and tell me you're ready
Well I don't know because your hands aren't steady
I'll never get a chance to break out
All I wanted was a chance to make out
You'll never be important to me
Why don't you build me up
Instead you hollow out my bones
When will I get enough
So I can grow out on my own
I'll brace myself for never knowing why
So I'll take a whiskey neat
A Willet Family Rye
And I want you
And I want you
So you look at me and tell me you're ready
Well I don't know because your hands aren't steady
I'll never get a chance to break out
All I wanted was a chance to make out
You'll never be
You're not important to me
You're not important to me
Nothing's important to me
So you look at me and tell me you're ready
I don't know because your hands aren't steady
I'll never get a chance to break out
All I wanted was a chance
You'll never be important to me
You'll never be important to me
You'll never be
Why can't I see
What the fuck have you done to be important to me
Well I don't know because your hands aren't steady
You'll never be important to me
When I was a young boy, my father said to me
Don't you wear yourself out on alcohol
Give in to its slavery
But who am I to listen, call it an omission
Of a clear cut path to victory
But is there any point of being on top
when there's no memory
But I broke down just yesterday
I couldn't sleep, I couldn't say your name
And I want you
And I want you
So you look at me and tell me you're ready
Well I don't know because your hands aren't steady
I'll never get a chance to break out
All I wanted was a chance to make out
You'll never be important to me
Why don't you build me up
Instead you hollow out my bones
When will I get enough
So I can grow out on my own
I'll brace myself for never knowing why
So I'll take a whiskey neat
A Willet Family Rye
And I want you
And I want you
So you look at me and tell me you're ready
Well I don't know because your hands aren't steady
I'll never get a chance to break out
All I wanted was a chance to make out
You'll never be
You're not important to me
You're not important to me
Nothing's important to me
So you look at me and tell me you're ready
I don't know because your hands aren't steady
I'll never get a chance to break out
All I wanted was a chance
You'll never be important to me
You'll never be important to me
You'll never be
Why can't I see
What the fuck have you done to be important to me
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