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"
And I see you’ve done what you do
Know we’re doing this for you
You don’t know how these days are now that they‘re not with you
So here’s to savor all of this
We’ve come so far just to miss
The thing that you need
Want to be, I don’t want to see this anymore
How do, I make you see that
You might be heading nowhere
I’m here and you don’t know your timings right
What did you say
And I’ll go
You don’t know that
You might be heading nowhere
And I’ll be the one that lets us go
And I’ll see it through tonight
But when will I see you again
If you knew these thoughts than we’d be friends
Go this way it seems so right, it’s ok again
When will I see you again
You don’t know
You don’t know
Life’s coming hard down on me
I need something that lets me be
I know, sure there’s something that seems I’ll never have anymore
Some things are beautiful until insecurities all fill
You’ve changed, you don’t understand, no you never will
How do I make you see that
You might be heading nowhere
I’m here and you don’t know your timings right
What did you say
And I’ll go
You don’t know that
You might be heading nowhere
And I’ll be the one that lets us go
And I’ll see it through tonight
But when will I see you again
If you knew these thoughts than we’d be friends
Go this way it seems so right, it’s ok again
When will I see you again
Again
So sad to say
You’ll forget about the times when you ran away
And I’m assuming you did
And I’m assuming you did
So sad to say
You’ll forget about the times when you ran away
And I’m assuming you did
And I’m assuming you did
And I’m assuming you did
I’ll say I miss it so bad
You might be heading nowhere
I’m here and you don’t know what you were thinking
Well I do, and I do
And I see you
And I can’t believe you
And I do, in seeing you
You don’t, and you know what to do
I see you
I bet you think you’re whoa
When will you stop this stupid show
I’m singing a song that you should quite understand
And you don’t, you don’t know what to do
Don’t believe you when you say you never knew
I’m singing this, cause I can’t stop thinking of you
When will I see you again
If you knew these thoughts than we’d be friends
Go this way it seems so right, it’s ok again
When will I see you again
You don’t know
You don’t know
Know we’re doing this for you
You don’t know how these days are now that they‘re not with you
So here’s to savor all of this
We’ve come so far just to miss
The thing that you need
Want to be, I don’t want to see this anymore
How do, I make you see that
You might be heading nowhere
I’m here and you don’t know your timings right
What did you say
And I’ll go
You don’t know that
You might be heading nowhere
And I’ll be the one that lets us go
And I’ll see it through tonight
But when will I see you again
If you knew these thoughts than we’d be friends
Go this way it seems so right, it’s ok again
When will I see you again
You don’t know
You don’t know
Life’s coming hard down on me
I need something that lets me be
I know, sure there’s something that seems I’ll never have anymore
Some things are beautiful until insecurities all fill
You’ve changed, you don’t understand, no you never will
How do I make you see that
You might be heading nowhere
I’m here and you don’t know your timings right
What did you say
And I’ll go
You don’t know that
You might be heading nowhere
And I’ll be the one that lets us go
And I’ll see it through tonight
But when will I see you again
If you knew these thoughts than we’d be friends
Go this way it seems so right, it’s ok again
When will I see you again
Again
So sad to say
You’ll forget about the times when you ran away
And I’m assuming you did
And I’m assuming you did
So sad to say
You’ll forget about the times when you ran away
And I’m assuming you did
And I’m assuming you did
And I’m assuming you did
I’ll say I miss it so bad
You might be heading nowhere
I’m here and you don’t know what you were thinking
Well I do, and I do
And I see you
And I can’t believe you
And I do, in seeing you
You don’t, and you know what to do
I see you
I bet you think you’re whoa
When will you stop this stupid show
I’m singing a song that you should quite understand
And you don’t, you don’t know what to do
Don’t believe you when you say you never knew
I’m singing this, cause I can’t stop thinking of you
When will I see you again
If you knew these thoughts than we’d be friends
Go this way it seems so right, it’s ok again
When will I see you again
You don’t know
You don’t know
Lyrics submitted by NotCoolZeus
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Seriously. Not hearing this song is killing me.