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"
You are entering the White Room
Yeah, that's the password
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
(ooo, na na na, ooo ooo, na na na)
Look at all you pretty people
Walking past my eyes
The room is getting smaller
There's a bright light deep inside
My toes are curling upwards
And my shoes have left my feet
They took away my velvet chair
My name is obsolete, oh
Hell we can get dreamy, yeah
Delicious, we can be happy, yeah
So happy I've been thinking about you, yeah
(and if you wanna come)
And if you wanna come in
You've got to knock three times
You are entering the White Room
Yeah that's the password
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
(ooo, na na na, ooo ooo, na na na)
Good Heavens! I don't know how you got here,
Did you sneak inside my head?
Or did you say a few sweet words
and sneak inside my bed?
Look at this huge big pillow
Come and lay your mind
And walk inside my crooked thought
And see what fun you'll find, oh
Hell we can get dreamy, yeah
Delicious, we can be happy, yeah
So happy I've been thinking about you, yeah
(and if you wanna come)
And if you wanna come in
You've got to knock three times
You are entering the White Room
That's the password
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My Asylum
And you are welcome
(ooo, na na na, ooo ooo, na na na)
Positively spiritual (aah)
Definitely sexual (aah)
Could it be I'm cynical? (aah)
Or could it be I
Well I, like I said
Override,
Satisfied,
Our love hits on the red
Do you show me that secret weapon
That shoots my fears all dead?
This is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
(ooo, na na na, ooo ooo, na na na)
You are entering the White Room
That's the password
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
Say you are entering the White Room (white room)
Yeah that's the password (that's the password)
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
(yes you are)
Coz you are entering the White Room
That's the password
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
Yeah, that's the password
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
(ooo, na na na, ooo ooo, na na na)
Look at all you pretty people
Walking past my eyes
The room is getting smaller
There's a bright light deep inside
My toes are curling upwards
And my shoes have left my feet
They took away my velvet chair
My name is obsolete, oh
Hell we can get dreamy, yeah
Delicious, we can be happy, yeah
So happy I've been thinking about you, yeah
(and if you wanna come)
And if you wanna come in
You've got to knock three times
You are entering the White Room
Yeah that's the password
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
(ooo, na na na, ooo ooo, na na na)
Good Heavens! I don't know how you got here,
Did you sneak inside my head?
Or did you say a few sweet words
and sneak inside my bed?
Look at this huge big pillow
Come and lay your mind
And walk inside my crooked thought
And see what fun you'll find, oh
Hell we can get dreamy, yeah
Delicious, we can be happy, yeah
So happy I've been thinking about you, yeah
(and if you wanna come)
And if you wanna come in
You've got to knock three times
You are entering the White Room
That's the password
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My Asylum
And you are welcome
(ooo, na na na, ooo ooo, na na na)
Positively spiritual (aah)
Definitely sexual (aah)
Could it be I'm cynical? (aah)
Or could it be I
Well I, like I said
Override,
Satisfied,
Our love hits on the red
Do you show me that secret weapon
That shoots my fears all dead?
This is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
(ooo, na na na, ooo ooo, na na na)
You are entering the White Room
That's the password
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
Say you are entering the White Room (white room)
Yeah that's the password (that's the password)
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
(yes you are)
Coz you are entering the White Room
That's the password
And you can leave your hangups at the door now
Coz this is the White Room
My asylum
And you are welcome
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Can't really explain this unless i'm saying it from my own perpective.
"Welcome to my mind! Come in, You're welcome in here with me, i like you enough!"
"Oh wow, I got so caught up in you, that I didn't realize you actually made it"..
So yeah, but thats basically my interpetation.