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"
Can you feel your heart beat racing?
Can you taste the fear in her sweat?
We've done this wrong, we're too far gone
These sheets tell of regret
I admit that I'm just a fool for you
Here is where we both go wrong
Tonight's your last chance to do exactly what you want to
And this could be my night
This is what makes me feel alive
Makes you feel alive
Here is where we both go wrong
So sign me up and toss this key
'Cause for now, we're living
In this moment that we both ignore the truth
It's all over, it's all over
I feel your heart against mine
So take a breath and close your eyes
[Chorus:]
Your lungs have failed and they've both stopped breathing
My heart is dead, it's way past beating
Something has gone terribly wrong
I'm scared, you're scared, we're scared of this
I never thought we'd make it out alive
I never told you but it's all in your goodbyes
Well look who's dying now, slit wrists from sleeping with the girl next door
I always knew you were such a sucker for that
It doesn't matter what you say
You never mattered anyway
I never mattered anyway
In this moment that we both ignore the truth
It's all over, it's all over
I feel your heart against mine
So take a breath and close your eyes
[Chorus:]
Don't shake, I have to see you tremble
Trembling, you've lost your touch haven't you
And I'm so addicted, so addicted
[Chorus:]
Can you taste the fear in her sweat?
We've done this wrong, we're too far gone
These sheets tell of regret
I admit that I'm just a fool for you
Here is where we both go wrong
Tonight's your last chance to do exactly what you want to
And this could be my night
This is what makes me feel alive
Makes you feel alive
Here is where we both go wrong
So sign me up and toss this key
'Cause for now, we're living
In this moment that we both ignore the truth
It's all over, it's all over
I feel your heart against mine
So take a breath and close your eyes
[Chorus:]
Your lungs have failed and they've both stopped breathing
My heart is dead, it's way past beating
Something has gone terribly wrong
I'm scared, you're scared, we're scared of this
I never thought we'd make it out alive
I never told you but it's all in your goodbyes
Well look who's dying now, slit wrists from sleeping with the girl next door
I always knew you were such a sucker for that
It doesn't matter what you say
You never mattered anyway
I never mattered anyway
In this moment that we both ignore the truth
It's all over, it's all over
I feel your heart against mine
So take a breath and close your eyes
[Chorus:]
Don't shake, I have to see you tremble
Trembling, you've lost your touch haven't you
And I'm so addicted, so addicted
[Chorus:]
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A Boy Brushed Red Living in Black and White Lyrics as written by Christopher Dudley Aaron Gillespie
Lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing
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