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"
Sitting on the edge of an armchair
Me seatbelt un-fastened
Shoelaces not tied
Letting the wind mess my hair
Make up all smudged
wake up all blurry-eyed
It's too early in the morning
For my words to come out right
Just getting used to sunlight
Squinting in the light
And it looks like
A perfect day
Just too get away
On this Monday
Has brought out the rebel I was born to be
And it feels like
The perfect time
Just to break away
This is my life
It's Soujourn from the norm
Ohhhhhh
Hey, yeah
I'm an uncomformised
I like doing stupid things
Like laughing on a train
Or falling in love again
Television, magazines
To tell you how to live your life
But not how to use your brain
It's too early in the morning
For my words to come out right
Just getting used to sunshine
I'm still squinting in the light
And it looks like
A perfect day
Just too get away
On this Monday
Has brought out the rebel I was born to be
And it feels like
The perfect time
Just to break away
This is my life
It's Soujourn from the norm
Ohhhhhhhh, hey, yeah, yeah
I wanna do something I've never done
Dip my toes beneath the surface of a sea,
That I've never seen the bottom of
I'm not perfect
Don't have to be
I can walk around in just bare feet
I'm comfortable in my own skin
My confidence starts within
Oh, and it looks like
A perfect day
Just too get away
On this Monday
Has brought out the rebel I was born to be
And it feels like
The perfect time
Just to break away
This is my life
It's Soujourn from the norm
Soujourn from the norm
Me seatbelt un-fastened
Shoelaces not tied
Letting the wind mess my hair
Make up all smudged
wake up all blurry-eyed
It's too early in the morning
For my words to come out right
Just getting used to sunlight
Squinting in the light
And it looks like
A perfect day
Just too get away
On this Monday
Has brought out the rebel I was born to be
And it feels like
The perfect time
Just to break away
This is my life
It's Soujourn from the norm
Ohhhhhh
Hey, yeah
I'm an uncomformised
I like doing stupid things
Like laughing on a train
Or falling in love again
Television, magazines
To tell you how to live your life
But not how to use your brain
It's too early in the morning
For my words to come out right
Just getting used to sunshine
I'm still squinting in the light
And it looks like
A perfect day
Just too get away
On this Monday
Has brought out the rebel I was born to be
And it feels like
The perfect time
Just to break away
This is my life
It's Soujourn from the norm
Ohhhhhhhh, hey, yeah, yeah
I wanna do something I've never done
Dip my toes beneath the surface of a sea,
That I've never seen the bottom of
I'm not perfect
Don't have to be
I can walk around in just bare feet
I'm comfortable in my own skin
My confidence starts within
Oh, and it looks like
A perfect day
Just too get away
On this Monday
Has brought out the rebel I was born to be
And it feels like
The perfect time
Just to break away
This is my life
It's Soujourn from the norm
Soujourn from the norm
Lyrics submitted by sparklefairy
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Sitting on the edge of an armchair Me seatbelt un-fastened Shoelaces not tied
Letting the wind mess my hair Make up all smudged wake up all blurry-eyed
It's too early in the morning For my words to come out right Just getting used to sunlight Squinting in the light
And it looks like A perfect day Just too get away All this mundane Has brought out the rebel I was born to be
And it feels like The perfect time Just to break away This is my life It's Soujourn from the norm
Ohhhhhh Hey, yeah
I'm an uncomformised I like doing stupid things Like laughing on a train Or falling in love again Television, magazines tell you how to live your life But not how to use your brain
It's too early in the morning For my words to come out right Just getting used to sunshine I'm still squinting in the light
And it looks like A perfect day Just too get away All this mundane Has brought out the rebel I was born to be
And it feels like The perfect time Just to break away This is my life It's Soujourn from the norm
Ohhhhhhhh, hey, yeah, yeah
I wanna do something I've never done Dip my toes beneath the surface of a sea, That I've never seen the bottom of
I'm not perfect Don't have to be I can walk around in just bare feet I'm comfortable in my own skin My confidence starts within
Oh, and it looks like A perfect day Just too get away All this mundane Has brought out the rebel I was born to be
And it feels like The perfect time Just to break away This is my life It's Soujourn from the norm
Soujourn from the norm
Love this song. Too bad someone had to get the lyrics wrong.