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"
Sometimes
Mixed emotions they ramble on inside
For a false sense of reality
So I try to escape
From this place that brings me down
Cause I feel there's nothing else
Left inside me anymore
And I thought I saw a face in the wake you
Here in my mind again
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find you anymore
And I try to erase all these feelings that I have
Of that happy perfect life
There's just a cold and darkened memory
And i have to pretend that you're here for awhile
But I know that's just a wishful temporary remedy
And I want to
There's a need to
To believe in something
Something that won't leave me heartless
And I want to
There's a need to
Know that there's something
Something that won't pass me by
And I thought I saw a face in the wake you
Here in my mind again
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find you anymore
I know that there's reasons to forget what was had
To leave all our past behind us
So I try to make myself forget
But it really hasn't happened yet
And I know that there must be a reason why
And I want to
There's a need to
To believe in something
Something that won't leave me heartless
And I want to
There's a need to
Know that there's something
Something that won't pass me by
I thought I saw a face in the wake you
Here in my mind again
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find you anymore
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find you anymore
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find you anymore
Mixed emotions they ramble on inside
For a false sense of reality
So I try to escape
From this place that brings me down
Cause I feel there's nothing else
Left inside me anymore
And I thought I saw a face in the wake you
Here in my mind again
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find you anymore
And I try to erase all these feelings that I have
Of that happy perfect life
There's just a cold and darkened memory
And i have to pretend that you're here for awhile
But I know that's just a wishful temporary remedy
And I want to
There's a need to
To believe in something
Something that won't leave me heartless
And I want to
There's a need to
Know that there's something
Something that won't pass me by
And I thought I saw a face in the wake you
Here in my mind again
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find you anymore
I know that there's reasons to forget what was had
To leave all our past behind us
So I try to make myself forget
But it really hasn't happened yet
And I know that there must be a reason why
And I want to
There's a need to
To believe in something
Something that won't leave me heartless
And I want to
There's a need to
Know that there's something
Something that won't pass me by
I thought I saw a face in the wake you
Here in my mind again
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find you anymore
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find you anymore
I thought I saw a face in the wake of you
But now I can't find you anymore
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unless the album booklet says otherwise (iTunes download on my part), i'm pretty sure the line is, "I thought I saw a faint silhouette of you"