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"
God I wish I could hate you for the rest of my...
You can never tell me I shouldn't walk away
It's foolish to assume that I'll be coming back another day And you were never right
and I was never wrong
Does truth lie in sincerity of another sullen song?
Cause you were right then
I should have been the one to release it
It's coming back to tease me
But I was just born
You're pride was too strong, well can you change it?
And are you willing to face it?
YEAH!
You can tell your story and coat it anyway,
but you will never change who you trying to play now
Your friends are falling out
They know you just don't care, they know you never did
Cause you were right then
I should have been the one to release it
It's coming back to tease me
But I was just born
You're pride was too strong, well can you change it?
And are you willing to face it?
Cause they say always the first one
is never as good as the next
Hey, it's just rock and roll
Even though you might think you lost it all
Cause the times, they are a changin
And who can predict what's next hey, you lost control
Even though you might have thought you had it all
and hey, hey, hey it's just rock and roll
And I'll never change
I love it just the same
I'll never change
Cause I love it just the same
God I wish I could hate you the rest of my life
God I wish I could hate you the rest of my life
God I wish I could hate you the rest of my life
God I wish I could hate you the for the rest of my..
God I wish I could hate you(god I wish I could hate you)
for the rest of my life(god I wish I could hate)
God I wish I could hate you(for the rest of my life)
(god I wish I could hate you)
Nothing would make me happier
(god I wish I could hate you)
Nothing would make me happier(for the rest of my life)
You can never tell me I shouldn't walk away
It's foolish to assume that I'll be coming back another day And you were never right
and I was never wrong
Does truth lie in sincerity of another sullen song?
Cause you were right then
I should have been the one to release it
It's coming back to tease me
But I was just born
You're pride was too strong, well can you change it?
And are you willing to face it?
YEAH!
You can tell your story and coat it anyway,
but you will never change who you trying to play now
Your friends are falling out
They know you just don't care, they know you never did
Cause you were right then
I should have been the one to release it
It's coming back to tease me
But I was just born
You're pride was too strong, well can you change it?
And are you willing to face it?
Cause they say always the first one
is never as good as the next
Hey, it's just rock and roll
Even though you might think you lost it all
Cause the times, they are a changin
And who can predict what's next hey, you lost control
Even though you might have thought you had it all
and hey, hey, hey it's just rock and roll
And I'll never change
I love it just the same
I'll never change
Cause I love it just the same
God I wish I could hate you the rest of my life
God I wish I could hate you the rest of my life
God I wish I could hate you the rest of my life
God I wish I could hate you the for the rest of my..
God I wish I could hate you(god I wish I could hate you)
for the rest of my life(god I wish I could hate)
God I wish I could hate you(for the rest of my life)
(god I wish I could hate you)
Nothing would make me happier
(god I wish I could hate you)
Nothing would make me happier(for the rest of my life)
Lyrics submitted by TBSdude70x7
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how you wish you could hate somebody for doing something terrible to you but you just can't