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"
I know, I've been in conversation
I had a reservation
But now it's going slow
One trip, I fell into a big drop
While choking on a rain drop, and I ain't thirsty ... no
But suddenly I caught up with a rainbow
It's shadow glowed in the dark
And all of my answers turned into questions
The ending became the start
So, c'mon she said, turn on yourself
Baby's got a new revelation now
Exit to Zen, come take my hand ... we'll
Meet your maker and we'll do it all over again
One last time
A time
We'll kiss off, you're callused and abrasive
Over underrated and I won't break for you
Switch on my targeting computer
Camouflage mag shooter, specially made for you
While keeping an eye on a cool connotation
And tripping on a Winter's day
Asleep with the lights on, covered in angels
Won't stop before I go astray
So, c'mon she said, turn on yourself
Baby's got a new revelation now
Exit to Zen, come take my hand ... we'll
Meet your maker and we'll do it all over again
One last time
But suddenly I caught up with a rainbow
It's shadow glowed in the dark
And all of my answers turned into questions
The ending became the start
So, c'mon she said, turn on yourself
Baby's got a new revelation now
Exit to Zen, come take my hand, we'll
Meet your maker and we'll do it all over again
Well c'mon, c'mon
C'mon, c'mon
Baby's got a new revelation now
Exit to Zen, come take my hand, we'll
Meet your maker and we'll do it all over again
Do it again, one last time
A time, a time
I had a reservation
But now it's going slow
One trip, I fell into a big drop
While choking on a rain drop, and I ain't thirsty ... no
But suddenly I caught up with a rainbow
It's shadow glowed in the dark
And all of my answers turned into questions
The ending became the start
So, c'mon she said, turn on yourself
Baby's got a new revelation now
Exit to Zen, come take my hand ... we'll
Meet your maker and we'll do it all over again
One last time
A time
We'll kiss off, you're callused and abrasive
Over underrated and I won't break for you
Switch on my targeting computer
Camouflage mag shooter, specially made for you
While keeping an eye on a cool connotation
And tripping on a Winter's day
Asleep with the lights on, covered in angels
Won't stop before I go astray
So, c'mon she said, turn on yourself
Baby's got a new revelation now
Exit to Zen, come take my hand ... we'll
Meet your maker and we'll do it all over again
One last time
But suddenly I caught up with a rainbow
It's shadow glowed in the dark
And all of my answers turned into questions
The ending became the start
So, c'mon she said, turn on yourself
Baby's got a new revelation now
Exit to Zen, come take my hand, we'll
Meet your maker and we'll do it all over again
Well c'mon, c'mon
C'mon, c'mon
Baby's got a new revelation now
Exit to Zen, come take my hand, we'll
Meet your maker and we'll do it all over again
Do it again, one last time
A time, a time
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