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"
Just talked to this girl, used to live, yeah on my street
After all these years you're here and you remember me
She said her old boyfriend
Packed up and headed back east
But she always knew someday he would go
She just got a new job and she doubts it will last
So let's take a drink and never think and here's to the past
She says it's so funny how life burns out so fast
It's just another wasted day
A boring life in a boring town
In the same old crowd
And I used to say that I'd never stay
But I'm rotting here today
With that same old crowd that's always been around
And I always thought I'd be the first to go
That same old crowd that drags me down
Another day in a boring town
That same old crowd that brings me down
A boring life in a boring town
Just talked to this girl, used to live, yeah on my street
After all these years you're here
And it's still just you and me
Sometimes I can't believe after all these years
I just think that I'll never leave here
She said it's so funny how life burns out so fast
So let's take another drink and here's to the past
That same old crowd that drags me down
Another day in a boring town
That same old crowd that brings me down
A boring life in a boring town
And remember when they'd look through you
And they'd look past me
We were the ones they said would always leave
So when you go just think of me
Think of me
A boring life in a boring town
In the same old crowd
And I used to say that I'd never stay
But I'm rotting here today
With that same old crowd that's always been around
And I always thought that
Yeah and I always thought that
Yeah I'd always thought that I'd be
The first to go
A boring life
A boring town
A boring life
A boring town
A boring life
And a boring town
After all these years you're here and you remember me
She said her old boyfriend
Packed up and headed back east
But she always knew someday he would go
She just got a new job and she doubts it will last
So let's take a drink and never think and here's to the past
She says it's so funny how life burns out so fast
It's just another wasted day
A boring life in a boring town
In the same old crowd
And I used to say that I'd never stay
But I'm rotting here today
With that same old crowd that's always been around
And I always thought I'd be the first to go
That same old crowd that drags me down
Another day in a boring town
That same old crowd that brings me down
A boring life in a boring town
Just talked to this girl, used to live, yeah on my street
After all these years you're here
And it's still just you and me
Sometimes I can't believe after all these years
I just think that I'll never leave here
She said it's so funny how life burns out so fast
So let's take another drink and here's to the past
That same old crowd that drags me down
Another day in a boring town
That same old crowd that brings me down
A boring life in a boring town
And remember when they'd look through you
And they'd look past me
We were the ones they said would always leave
So when you go just think of me
Think of me
A boring life in a boring town
In the same old crowd
And I used to say that I'd never stay
But I'm rotting here today
With that same old crowd that's always been around
And I always thought that
Yeah and I always thought that
Yeah I'd always thought that I'd be
The first to go
A boring life
A boring town
A boring life
A boring town
A boring life
And a boring town
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this song scares the crap out of me because i know this is what is gonna happen to me. i lived in jersey all my life as much as i say "im leaving as soon as im 18" im just gonna be stuck here forever.