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"
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
Gotta believe in what's real
You gotta go with what you know
You can leave here with a good feeling
'You never know' you told me so
Jesus Christ and Heaven's always been there
Gotta believe in what's real
You gotta go with what you know
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
Gotta tell you what I feel
Although your tank is running low
Over the split line for real
Pat the hood you're good to go
Hear you now
You're cut from the cords of the wicked
Gotta believe in what's real
You gotta move on down the road
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
[music]
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
[vocal & guitar]
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
Gotta believe in what's real
You gotta go with what you know
You can leave here with a good feeling
'You never know' you told me so
Jesus Christ and Heaven's always been there
Gotta believe in what's real
You gotta go with what you know
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
Gotta tell you what I feel
Although your tank is running low
Over the split line for real
Pat the hood you're good to go
Hear you now
You're cut from the cords of the wicked
Gotta believe in what's real
You gotta move on down the road
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
[music]
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
[vocal & guitar]
One step - I make an imprint
Two steps - is commitment
Three steps - I'm not done yet
Draw my other leg up
And the pace is set
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