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"
Well my friends hate me, for what I’ve become. You see I’ve been trying love, and not focusing on my life.
But this morning, I took off all of my clothes and cleaned my skin clear, but the stench of you, no it doesn’t disappear,
So I just wait, in my lonely house, no no no I have no clout to put your pictures up in an art gallery.
So I go out, and place my feet downtown, and the people watch me drink myself to bars and death constantly.
And then, ask "why you’re doing this boy? When there’s so much more to prove"
Well, she's never coming back, but I have to finish this half, because I paid four bucks a glass.
And it's also the only thing that could be, sticking around.
And I bought cocaine from my friend just the other day, you know just to let my memory fade so when you come to my place....
My heart will beat, just as loud as a kick drum; cause you know when you talk to much it's like music playing.
And it only crossed in my thoughts when you left; you see I get so depressed, when you’re lying to my face. And I think we'd be were cheap
If you just let me hold you then we could spell out the truth.
And if you do this to me again, I might have a childish fit.
And you won’t find me attractive as you did; no you need a man, someone on their feet, with high self esteem...
And never blames depression, for the way he's feeling... because that's how I’m feeling.
So if I, told you... I found another love... well you know, just this once it was right after you ran to his heart wire house.
We were dancing or drinking downtown, the lights were blinking so loud, that for once I couldn’t hear what a girl adored.
and I collapsed, into the gutter of K street... that’s when I knew my mistakes made me, and I found you’re more than incomplete.
So if all this lie was just all a bit of truth, would you still chase me like I do, when you’re constantly wrapped in the sheets?
We are a fairy tale that failed, and I constantly keep reading it.
So I am the ugliest thing that could ever grow up to be of some kind of thing...
And you know how perfect we could be...
But this morning, I took off all of my clothes and cleaned my skin clear, but the stench of you, no it doesn’t disappear,
So I just wait, in my lonely house, no no no I have no clout to put your pictures up in an art gallery.
So I go out, and place my feet downtown, and the people watch me drink myself to bars and death constantly.
And then, ask "why you’re doing this boy? When there’s so much more to prove"
Well, she's never coming back, but I have to finish this half, because I paid four bucks a glass.
And it's also the only thing that could be, sticking around.
And I bought cocaine from my friend just the other day, you know just to let my memory fade so when you come to my place....
My heart will beat, just as loud as a kick drum; cause you know when you talk to much it's like music playing.
And it only crossed in my thoughts when you left; you see I get so depressed, when you’re lying to my face. And I think we'd be were cheap
If you just let me hold you then we could spell out the truth.
And if you do this to me again, I might have a childish fit.
And you won’t find me attractive as you did; no you need a man, someone on their feet, with high self esteem...
And never blames depression, for the way he's feeling... because that's how I’m feeling.
So if I, told you... I found another love... well you know, just this once it was right after you ran to his heart wire house.
We were dancing or drinking downtown, the lights were blinking so loud, that for once I couldn’t hear what a girl adored.
and I collapsed, into the gutter of K street... that’s when I knew my mistakes made me, and I found you’re more than incomplete.
So if all this lie was just all a bit of truth, would you still chase me like I do, when you’re constantly wrapped in the sheets?
We are a fairy tale that failed, and I constantly keep reading it.
So I am the ugliest thing that could ever grow up to be of some kind of thing...
And you know how perfect we could be...
Lyrics submitted by i rock
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a less talented conor oberst.but still enjoy listening but in the back of my mind cant help thinking...you're just not him even though you try your hardest.