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"
Romaji Lyrics
Kuchibue ga kikoeru Kinou yori mo tooku de
Togire togire no kakera wo atsume
Migi te ni nigirishime sotto me wo tojiru
Naifu no you ni tsuki ga furidasu
Chiheisen mo Itetsuku yoru sa
Hiza wo daite sonna kouya ni ima hitori
Kaze no uta ni mimi wo samashite 'ru
Nemurenai yoru wo shiranai yatsu wa
Tsuyoku wa narenai Sore ga ruuru sa
Kuchibue ga kikoeru Hoshizora yori tooku de
Sore wa dare ka no inori no kotoba
Migi te ni nigirishime sotto me wo tojiru
Kodoku yori mo motto sabishii mono wa
Sono kodoku ni kizukanai koto
Donna hieta yoru no daichi mo sono shita ni
Atatakasa wo kakushite iru no sa
Kago ni torawareta tori de iru yori
Namae mo shiranai ishikoro ni nare
Kuchibue ga kikoeru Kinou yori mo tooku de
Togire togire no kakera wo atsume
Migi te ni nigirishime sotto me wo tojiru
Kuchibue ga kikoeru Hoshizora yori tooku de
Sore wa dare ka no inori no kotoba
Migi te ni nigirishime sotto me wo tojiru
Migi te ni nigirishime sotto me wo tojiru
Kuchibue ga kikoeru Kinou yori mo tooku de
Togire togire no kakera wo atsume
Migi te ni nigirishime sotto me wo tojiru
Naifu no you ni tsuki ga furidasu
Chiheisen mo Itetsuku yoru sa
Hiza wo daite sonna kouya ni ima hitori
Kaze no uta ni mimi wo samashite 'ru
Nemurenai yoru wo shiranai yatsu wa
Tsuyoku wa narenai Sore ga ruuru sa
Kuchibue ga kikoeru Hoshizora yori tooku de
Sore wa dare ka no inori no kotoba
Migi te ni nigirishime sotto me wo tojiru
Kodoku yori mo motto sabishii mono wa
Sono kodoku ni kizukanai koto
Donna hieta yoru no daichi mo sono shita ni
Atatakasa wo kakushite iru no sa
Kago ni torawareta tori de iru yori
Namae mo shiranai ishikoro ni nare
Kuchibue ga kikoeru Kinou yori mo tooku de
Togire togire no kakera wo atsume
Migi te ni nigirishime sotto me wo tojiru
Kuchibue ga kikoeru Hoshizora yori tooku de
Sore wa dare ka no inori no kotoba
Migi te ni nigirishime sotto me wo tojiru
Migi te ni nigirishime sotto me wo tojiru
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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