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"
Left home with the best of intentions
Now she’s fed up with the pressure and tensions
And how no one in her life
Ever lived the life that they talked about
Digested all of their lessons
Now she’s trying her best to forget them
For the first time in her life
Left to live the life that she talked about
But her truck broke down just outside of town
She never planned on having all of her plans get fucked
So she starts to cry and kick the pick-up’s side
The Ford sputters to life by some stroke of luck
And she just laughs a kinda nervous laugh
And hopes that the best of intention’s will be enough
Six o’clock and it’s time to rise
She’s got work in an hour and bloodshot eyes
And it’s just another day
Gotta get the fuck up and get paid
Head is aching and her feet are sore
Six bucks an hour to be Wal-Mart’s whore
And she’s selling her weekdays
To buy her weekend’s back when she gets paid
She starts breaking down on the bus cross-town
She never planned on having all of her plans get fucked
This dream is all a lie, she’s feeling broke inside
And her self just wants to self-destruct
She spits and bleeds and cries
Sometimes, it doesn’t seem that best intentions’ll be enough
But they wave the flag and they make us proud we’re the chosen few
Just don’t drag them down or ask them how they hold the bottom line
Good morning, America, how are you
Quit pretending you’re some friend of mine
This country’s all broke down, we’re fucking nowhere bound
They say that hopes and dreams just aren’t gonna make the cut
But she won’t compromise, she’s planning a big surprise
“That’s fine”, she says, and turns now in disgust
And they just laugh a kinda nervous laugh
Cuz one day she’ll be back to fuck shit up
And until that day she won’t give in
Not until the best of intentions are enough
Now she’s fed up with the pressure and tensions
And how no one in her life
Ever lived the life that they talked about
Digested all of their lessons
Now she’s trying her best to forget them
For the first time in her life
Left to live the life that she talked about
But her truck broke down just outside of town
She never planned on having all of her plans get fucked
So she starts to cry and kick the pick-up’s side
The Ford sputters to life by some stroke of luck
And she just laughs a kinda nervous laugh
And hopes that the best of intention’s will be enough
Six o’clock and it’s time to rise
She’s got work in an hour and bloodshot eyes
And it’s just another day
Gotta get the fuck up and get paid
Head is aching and her feet are sore
Six bucks an hour to be Wal-Mart’s whore
And she’s selling her weekdays
To buy her weekend’s back when she gets paid
She starts breaking down on the bus cross-town
She never planned on having all of her plans get fucked
This dream is all a lie, she’s feeling broke inside
And her self just wants to self-destruct
She spits and bleeds and cries
Sometimes, it doesn’t seem that best intentions’ll be enough
But they wave the flag and they make us proud we’re the chosen few
Just don’t drag them down or ask them how they hold the bottom line
Good morning, America, how are you
Quit pretending you’re some friend of mine
This country’s all broke down, we’re fucking nowhere bound
They say that hopes and dreams just aren’t gonna make the cut
But she won’t compromise, she’s planning a big surprise
“That’s fine”, she says, and turns now in disgust
And they just laugh a kinda nervous laugh
Cuz one day she’ll be back to fuck shit up
And until that day she won’t give in
Not until the best of intentions are enough
Lyrics submitted by negatyve
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