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 all begins with a smile
Who is reading this?
Who is leading this?
'Cause I thought you should know that this is not an open book
They read so much it tears them down
They're all around the kinder people like the Federman's tale
It's the cycle of five
And I know myself of course 'cause it's certifiable
And the people that are pushing in their cheeks, oh
And I thought you should warn them that this is not an open book
Don't read so much it tears you down, you're all around
The kind of people like the prodigal heirs and their sons
It's the cycle of five
And I know how strong the pull of what's fortified, make sense?
And the people that are pushing in their cheeks, oh
Tell me what you have and that's when I'll know
If you have anything to start with
Then I thought you should warn them that this is not an open book
Don't read so much it tears you down, you're turning into people
The people like the prodigal heirs and their sons
It's the cycle of five
And I know myself of course 'cause it's certifiable
And the people that are pushing in their cheeks, oh
Tell me what you have and that's when I'll know
If you have anything to start with
These are the fibers of what makes the world
Left are the fibrous ones who've met the world
Here with the favors done, left are the fibers of letting go
Who is reading this?
Who is leading this?
'Cause I thought you should know that this is not an open book
They read so much it tears them down
They're all around the kinder people like the Federman's tale
It's the cycle of five
And I know myself of course 'cause it's certifiable
And the people that are pushing in their cheeks, oh
And I thought you should warn them that this is not an open book
Don't read so much it tears you down, you're all around
The kind of people like the prodigal heirs and their sons
It's the cycle of five
And I know how strong the pull of what's fortified, make sense?
And the people that are pushing in their cheeks, oh
Tell me what you have and that's when I'll know
If you have anything to start with
Then I thought you should warn them that this is not an open book
Don't read so much it tears you down, you're turning into people
The people like the prodigal heirs and their sons
It's the cycle of five
And I know myself of course 'cause it's certifiable
And the people that are pushing in their cheeks, oh
Tell me what you have and that's when I'll know
If you have anything to start with
These are the fibers of what makes the world
Left are the fibrous ones who've met the world
Here with the favors done, left are the fibers of letting go
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