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"
It was the rocks you liked
So much you'd throw them
Down into the river's darkness
Down from where the trains go flying
Your legs hung out
Into the air, we'll keep on kicking
Moving but we're never going
When we go it's like we're faking
Two palms, no sound
Closer and closer
The beam's width that's between us
Gets just a little leaner
We ought to fail to see it
And if I go to the left
And if you move to the right
So that we've hit and spilled
We turned it off in the night
Between the banks that roll
Glass hidden motion
Above we go on without knowing
The pines control the wild sarcasm
To hold us up
And time was held
Well worth the holding
Waste it when you try to save
Save it and it ends up wasted
You know these words
Closer and closer
The beam's width that's between us
Gets just a little leaner
We ought to fail to see it
And if I go to the left
And if you move to the right
So that we've hit and we spilled
We turned it off in the night
Closer and closer
The beam's width that's between us
Gets just a little leaner
We ought to fail to see it
Answer we entered
The trains won't ride beside us
But water moves beneath us
And takes away the sense of hearing it all
So much you'd throw them
Down into the river's darkness
Down from where the trains go flying
Your legs hung out
Into the air, we'll keep on kicking
Moving but we're never going
When we go it's like we're faking
Two palms, no sound
Closer and closer
The beam's width that's between us
Gets just a little leaner
We ought to fail to see it
And if I go to the left
And if you move to the right
So that we've hit and spilled
We turned it off in the night
Between the banks that roll
Glass hidden motion
Above we go on without knowing
The pines control the wild sarcasm
To hold us up
And time was held
Well worth the holding
Waste it when you try to save
Save it and it ends up wasted
You know these words
Closer and closer
The beam's width that's between us
Gets just a little leaner
We ought to fail to see it
And if I go to the left
And if you move to the right
So that we've hit and we spilled
We turned it off in the night
Closer and closer
The beam's width that's between us
Gets just a little leaner
We ought to fail to see it
Answer we entered
The trains won't ride beside us
But water moves beneath us
And takes away the sense of hearing it all
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