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"
this agitation revisits me
I wanna communicate so freely
but when you talk to me I don't think that I understand you
so hesitation would certainly
help me to think before, before I speak
but when you talk to me I feel as if I can't control it
can we just agree?
cuz when you talk to me I feel as if I can't control it
can we just agree?
is it up to me?
ah-ah
in conversation I fail miserably
I wanna be someone else whenever I speak
cuz when I talk to you I dont think that you understand me
can we just agree?
cuz when I talk to you I dont think that you understand me
can we just agree?
is it up to me?
conversation is amazing when we're free to say things
people often won't because they hate themselves
these situations almost dayly
have a way of making people undestand that all of us are one
but isolation and division
will be our destruction if we can't communicate
so as I contradict myself and forget all I said...I am free
yeah! Whoa Oh-Yeah!
I wanna communicate so freely
but when you talk to me I don't think that I understand you
so hesitation would certainly
help me to think before, before I speak
but when you talk to me I feel as if I can't control it
can we just agree?
cuz when you talk to me I feel as if I can't control it
can we just agree?
is it up to me?
ah-ah
in conversation I fail miserably
I wanna be someone else whenever I speak
cuz when I talk to you I dont think that you understand me
can we just agree?
cuz when I talk to you I dont think that you understand me
can we just agree?
is it up to me?
conversation is amazing when we're free to say things
people often won't because they hate themselves
these situations almost dayly
have a way of making people undestand that all of us are one
but isolation and division
will be our destruction if we can't communicate
so as I contradict myself and forget all I said...I am free
yeah! Whoa Oh-Yeah!
Lyrics submitted by Pudgy311
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tihs is such an awesome song. i agree with the 3 people above me totally..i must say my fave part of the song is this: "conversation is amazing when we're free to say things people often won't because they hate themselves these situations almost dayly have a way of making people undestand that all of us are one but isolation and division will be our destruction if we can't communicate so as I contradict myself and forget all I said...I am free"
that is just...such an awesome lyric. TJT rocks.