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"
1, 2, 3, 4! Kelly’s got a problem, yeah, she’s dying every day. She sits all by herself, with hopes that it will go away. HEY, HEY! She’s got everything a girl could want, Got money and a car. When your mind is sickly spinning, It won’t get you very far. Sleeping pills, and alcohol, One more time you’ll take a fall. Sleeping pills, and alcohol, Gonna have a ball! Yeah! EVERYBODY, Cries! CRIES! EVERYBODY, Cries! CRIES! EVERYBODY CRIES FOR THE HOMECOMING QUEEN. EVERYBODY, Cries! CRIES! EVERYBODY, Cries! CRIES! EVERYBODY CRIES FOR THE HOMECOMING QUEEN. High school popularity defining your self worth, But it doesn’t really matter when they sink you in the dirt. HEY, HEY! When Jesse lost his will to live, They said it was a shame, But when Kelly drains her artery, It will rocket her to fame. Escape is what you need, Someone played on jealousy. Get escape, is what you need, Slit your wrists and watch them bleed. EVERYBODY, Cries! CRIES! EVERYBODY, Cries! CRIES! EVERYBODY CRIES FOR THE HOMECOMING QUEEN. EVERYBODY, Cries! CRIES! EVERYBODY, Cries! CRIES! EVERYBODY CRIES FOR THE HOMECOMING QUEEN. Will they miss me when I’m gone? One thing you might know of just what went wrong, Inside that widely stressed up world. Take your bullet and your gun, There’s never room for anyone, But now it’s just too late, the moment’s gone. Everybody, CRIES! Cries! Everybody, CRIES! Cries! EVERYBODY CRIES FOR THE HOMECOMING QUEEN. Everybody, CRIES! Cries! Everybody, CRIES! Cries! EVERYBODY CRIES FOR THE HOMECOMING QUEEN.
Lyrics submitted by Madcappunk
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