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"
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you...
Green are my eyes, they've seen so much compassion
I couldn't have changed but too much suffering inside so now I'm said and done
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you 'cause I have to
And now I spend most of my time playing computer games
And wishing I was loving like most of my friends oh I am so ashamed
I love you, I love you, I love you I love you 'cause I have to
I love you 'cause I have to
Make everything OK
I love you 'cause I have to
Go away
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you 'cause I have to
And now I make much noise reading, ficking through rubbish
Contribution is the solution to an endless black hole and through the malice
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you 'cause I have to
Green are my eyes, they've seen so much compassion
I couldnt have changed but too much suffering inside so now I'm said and done
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you 'cause I have to
I love you 'cause I have to
Make everything OK
I love you 'cause I have to
Go away
Ohhhhh
I love you 'cause I have to
Make everything OK
I love you 'cause I have to
Go away
Ohhhhhhhh
Ohhhhhhhh
Ohhhhhh
I love you 'cause I have to
Make everything OK
I love you 'cause I have to
Go away
Ohhhhhh
I love you 'cause I have to
Make everything OK
I love you 'cause I have to
Go away
Green are my eyes, they've seen so much compassion
I couldn't have changed but too much suffering inside so now I'm said and done
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you 'cause I have to
And now I spend most of my time playing computer games
And wishing I was loving like most of my friends oh I am so ashamed
I love you, I love you, I love you I love you 'cause I have to
I love you 'cause I have to
Make everything OK
I love you 'cause I have to
Go away
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you 'cause I have to
And now I make much noise reading, ficking through rubbish
Contribution is the solution to an endless black hole and through the malice
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you 'cause I have to
Green are my eyes, they've seen so much compassion
I couldnt have changed but too much suffering inside so now I'm said and done
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you 'cause I have to
I love you 'cause I have to
Make everything OK
I love you 'cause I have to
Go away
Ohhhhh
I love you 'cause I have to
Make everything OK
I love you 'cause I have to
Go away
Ohhhhhhhh
Ohhhhhhhh
Ohhhhhh
I love you 'cause I have to
Make everything OK
I love you 'cause I have to
Go away
Ohhhhhh
I love you 'cause I have to
Make everything OK
I love you 'cause I have to
Go away
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