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"
With the jobs I’ve taken
The bones that I’ve broken
Seems nothings the way that it used to be
Now it’s over, I guess that I’m older
The proof is on paper in front of me
Write it down, sound it out (oh, oh, oh, ohhhh)
Make it loud, and this time make it count
I’m sorry, for everything
I did to you, I didn’t mean it
Late for my own funeral
As usual
Putting it down on paper
So I don’t forget it all later
If I could, if I tried anyway
Said that I learned my lesson
But I make the same mistakes again
Think about this every day
As I watch the towns fade through side view mirrors
With the jobs I’ve taken
The bones that I’ve broken
Seems nothings the way that it used to be
But now it’s over, I guess that I’m older
The proof is on paper in front of me
Write it down, sound it out
Oh, oh, oh, ohhhh
Make it loud, and make it count
Think about this every day
We all get old and fade away
But through it all I won’t forget
YOUUUUUU
I’m sorry, for everything
I did to you, I didn’t mean it
Late for my own funeral
As usual
[2x]
(You can give, you can take
But you’ll never forget)
Moving on now to new situations
Not able to turn to what felt so right (im sorry)
Familiar faces, familiar places
I can’t look on in after one more night (im sorry)
Write it down, sound it out (oh, oh, oh, ohhhh)
Make it count and this time make me proud
The bones that I’ve broken
Seems nothings the way that it used to be
Now it’s over, I guess that I’m older
The proof is on paper in front of me
Write it down, sound it out (oh, oh, oh, ohhhh)
Make it loud, and this time make it count
I’m sorry, for everything
I did to you, I didn’t mean it
Late for my own funeral
As usual
Putting it down on paper
So I don’t forget it all later
If I could, if I tried anyway
Said that I learned my lesson
But I make the same mistakes again
Think about this every day
As I watch the towns fade through side view mirrors
With the jobs I’ve taken
The bones that I’ve broken
Seems nothings the way that it used to be
But now it’s over, I guess that I’m older
The proof is on paper in front of me
Write it down, sound it out
Oh, oh, oh, ohhhh
Make it loud, and make it count
Think about this every day
We all get old and fade away
But through it all I won’t forget
YOUUUUUU
I’m sorry, for everything
I did to you, I didn’t mean it
Late for my own funeral
As usual
[2x]
(You can give, you can take
But you’ll never forget)
Moving on now to new situations
Not able to turn to what felt so right (im sorry)
Familiar faces, familiar places
I can’t look on in after one more night (im sorry)
Write it down, sound it out (oh, oh, oh, ohhhh)
Make it count and this time make me proud
Lyrics submitted by NateDogg
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