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"
Shades of grey were the colors of my soul
Accepted miseries embraced for oh so long
The hands of time sweeping all my dreams away
Lost in a circumstantial maze
Moving on to another day
Searching for a brighter shade of grey
A somber silhouette displays the beauty of a dream
Until I realized your open eyes in front of me
You color my life with everything you do
And this open road only leads me back to you
Moving on to another day
Searching for a better way (a better way)
Seek and you will find the cure a blessing in disguise right before your eyes
Accepted miseries embraced for oh so long
The hands of time sweeping all my dreams away
Lost in a circumstantial maze
Moving on to another day
Searching for a brighter shade of grey
A somber silhouette displays the beauty of a dream
Until I realized your open eyes in front of me
You color my life with everything you do
And this open road only leads me back to you
Moving on to another day
Searching for a better way (a better way)
Seek and you will find the cure a blessing in disguise right before your eyes
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