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"
We've waited far too long to,
Watch it all crash and fall through
So when you feel like shit you've gotta
Keep on pushing
If you saw the world through my eyes
Then you wouldn't feel so high rise
It's time to take our chance,
You've gotta sit, back, and, hold tight
There's Forces working in our heads
But we don't understand them
I need a map to find my way out all the time
There's Curses Lurking in our heads
But we don't want to find them
We need to come back down and face what we've become
We've become
The more I think
The more I wish I would stop, and hit rewind
What I would give to have or take back then,
When no-one really cares
I remember when we all used to
Kick back, and take days off school
So many times I'd smile
Many times I've cried,
But never did we try
Never did we try
There's Forces working in our heads
But we don't understand them
I need a map to find my way out all the time
There's Curses Lurking in our heads
But we don't want to find them
We need to come back down and face what we've become
Its haunting me I'm so alone
I just want to find my way back home
I'm so alone
There's Forces working in our heads
But we don't understand them
I need a map to find my way out all the time
There's Curses Lurking in our heads
But we don't want to find them
We need to come back down and face what we've become
Watch it all crash and fall through
So when you feel like shit you've gotta
Keep on pushing
If you saw the world through my eyes
Then you wouldn't feel so high rise
It's time to take our chance,
You've gotta sit, back, and, hold tight
There's Forces working in our heads
But we don't understand them
I need a map to find my way out all the time
There's Curses Lurking in our heads
But we don't want to find them
We need to come back down and face what we've become
We've become
The more I think
The more I wish I would stop, and hit rewind
What I would give to have or take back then,
When no-one really cares
I remember when we all used to
Kick back, and take days off school
So many times I'd smile
Many times I've cried,
But never did we try
Never did we try
There's Forces working in our heads
But we don't understand them
I need a map to find my way out all the time
There's Curses Lurking in our heads
But we don't want to find them
We need to come back down and face what we've become
Its haunting me I'm so alone
I just want to find my way back home
I'm so alone
There's Forces working in our heads
But we don't understand them
I need a map to find my way out all the time
There's Curses Lurking in our heads
But we don't want to find them
We need to come back down and face what we've become
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Curses Lyrics as written by Michael Paget Jason James
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