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"
Until the hankerchief of history covers us with its
Times new roman black and white post script, I will wear
Lavender shirts in yellow painted public restrooms,
Looking like art decco in my September complexion
And red against blue skies,
And have those pictures taken to be proof
Against the dull mood of your highschool history teacher that we wore color,
That we distributed the seeds of dead dandilions
In the cement surrounded city parts,
That we let our skin soak up the sun despite the advice of modern science,
That we sometimes wore our hair long and let it curl
And never combed it or put it in braids,
That we taught ourselves to play the pots and pans
So that we would have something honest to dance to,
Something soulful to sing to,
And sometimes we had trouble seeing past our own reflections in the bedroom window,
Because it was dark outside,
And the florescents inside left shadows under our chests
And sculpted the torso to look it's Friday night fittest, yeah I'm vain,
There was light here before there wasn't,
And before that there wasn't,
But seagulls still ate shallow water fish,
Morning boys still cast tall shadows
And all the while the stars are slowly separating.
Times new roman black and white post script, I will wear
Lavender shirts in yellow painted public restrooms,
Looking like art decco in my September complexion
And red against blue skies,
And have those pictures taken to be proof
Against the dull mood of your highschool history teacher that we wore color,
That we distributed the seeds of dead dandilions
In the cement surrounded city parts,
That we let our skin soak up the sun despite the advice of modern science,
That we sometimes wore our hair long and let it curl
And never combed it or put it in braids,
That we taught ourselves to play the pots and pans
So that we would have something honest to dance to,
Something soulful to sing to,
And sometimes we had trouble seeing past our own reflections in the bedroom window,
Because it was dark outside,
And the florescents inside left shadows under our chests
And sculpted the torso to look it's Friday night fittest, yeah I'm vain,
There was light here before there wasn't,
And before that there wasn't,
But seagulls still ate shallow water fish,
Morning boys still cast tall shadows
And all the while the stars are slowly separating.
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