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"
The pleasure is all mine
To get to be the generous one
Is the strongest stance
The pleasure is all mine
To finally let go and evenly
Be flown
Who gives most
Who gives most
Who gives most
The pleasure is all mine
Women like us
We strengthen most host-like
When in doubt, give
When in doubt, give
When in doubt, give
To get to be the generous one
Is the strongest stance
The pleasure is all mine
To finally let go and evenly
Be flown
Who gives most
Who gives most
Who gives most
The pleasure is all mine
Women like us
We strengthen most host-like
When in doubt, give
When in doubt, give
When in doubt, give
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and it fits in perfectly to me in this album, because the practice is so...basic...i love it...this album gets down to the core of music. to it's roots. to the roots of humanity...using the oldest instruments on earth, the voice. which makes perfect sense, seeing how the album is called Medulla...being the innermost part of an organ or animal.
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