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"
Here, here I am again
And I'm starin' at these same four walls
Alone again
And now, all the colors blend
And I'm growing numb and I've become
This empty page
Hold on, it's tragic
Stumbling in through all this static
I just want to talk to you
And my broken heart just has no use
I, I guess promsises are better
left unsaid, yeah
Everytime you try to tell me
say the words that I'm the only
But I'm the one who's crawling on the ground
When you say love makes the world go 'round
My love, look at what you've done to me
For someone who has felt so strong
It's amazing I'm completely gone
Hold on, it's tragic
Stumbling in through all this static
I just want to talk to you
And my broken heart just has no use
I, I guess promsises are better
Left unsaid, yeah
Everytime you try to tell me
say the words that I'm the only
But I'm the one who's crawling on the ground,
When you say love makes the world go 'round
It's not the love you give me
I'd rather be alone, believe me
It's not the way you've found to treat me
I'd rather walk away
I just want to talk to you
And my broken heart just has no use
I, I guess promsises are better
Left unsaid, yeah
Everytime you try to tell me
Say the words that I'm the only
But I'm the one who's crawling on the ground,
When you say love makes the world go 'round, yeah
You say love makes the world go 'round
Everytime you try to tell me
I don't care you're not the only
Don't you know I'm coming back around
'Cause I say love makes the world go 'round, yeah
'Cause I say love makes the world go 'round
And I'm starin' at these same four walls
Alone again
And now, all the colors blend
And I'm growing numb and I've become
This empty page
Hold on, it's tragic
Stumbling in through all this static
I just want to talk to you
And my broken heart just has no use
I, I guess promsises are better
left unsaid, yeah
Everytime you try to tell me
say the words that I'm the only
But I'm the one who's crawling on the ground
When you say love makes the world go 'round
My love, look at what you've done to me
For someone who has felt so strong
It's amazing I'm completely gone
Hold on, it's tragic
Stumbling in through all this static
I just want to talk to you
And my broken heart just has no use
I, I guess promsises are better
Left unsaid, yeah
Everytime you try to tell me
say the words that I'm the only
But I'm the one who's crawling on the ground,
When you say love makes the world go 'round
It's not the love you give me
I'd rather be alone, believe me
It's not the way you've found to treat me
I'd rather walk away
I just want to talk to you
And my broken heart just has no use
I, I guess promsises are better
Left unsaid, yeah
Everytime you try to tell me
Say the words that I'm the only
But I'm the one who's crawling on the ground,
When you say love makes the world go 'round, yeah
You say love makes the world go 'round
Everytime you try to tell me
I don't care you're not the only
Don't you know I'm coming back around
'Cause I say love makes the world go 'round, yeah
'Cause I say love makes the world go 'round
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