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"
Give yourself over to the failure inside of you, and let it envelop your soul.
Failure is not out to get you.
Failure wants to be your friend,
The one you can count on when success,
That is ever-elusive, eludes you.
Failure is not out to fuck you.
Failure wants you to fuck it â?? to fuck it all.
Failure wants you to be proud of your lack of accomplishments.
Failure wants you to own your own incompetence.
Failure wants you to be confident in your inability to do anything.
Failure doesn't want you to try; failure wants you to fail.
Failure wants you to get over your fear of failure
And what better way to do that than to fail and fail again?
If at first you don't succeed, fail and fail again.
And fail again.
And fail again.
And walk tall. And stand up, and say, "I am a failure.
"I am a failure.
"I am a failure."
If it is difficult to do this
If it is difficult for you to think of yourself as a failure
If, for example,
You have a good career,
A nice place to live,
A happy family,
A lot of money,
A sense of purpose,
Or belief that in the end,
Everything will all work out
Remember all the things in your life you tried to do,
But never, ever could.
Think of how when you were five, and you wanted to be an astronaut,
And then the space program went into the toilet.
Think of how much you wanted to have sex with such-and-such a person,
And you were rejected, or too shy to even try.
Think of how many times in your life things didn't go your way, and remember:
External forces are never to blame.
You are the center of your universe, the only force that can ever affect you.
Therefore, anything that doesn't work out for you is all your fault.
You are responsible for all of your successes, and the lack thereof.
And that is the essential point that failure, your ever-faithful friend, wants to make:
That your failure could not exist without you
Without your stupidity, without your lies, without your mistakes,
Your uselessness, your lack of faith, your ineptitude,
Your unjustifiable confidence in your alleged abilities, you stupid loser
Failure is your only friend.
Failure is your only lover. Failure is your only hope.
So befriend it. Make love to it.
And believe in it with all your might.
Because failure is all there is for you.
Failure is not out to get you.
Failure wants to be your friend,
The one you can count on when success,
That is ever-elusive, eludes you.
Failure is not out to fuck you.
Failure wants you to fuck it â?? to fuck it all.
Failure wants you to be proud of your lack of accomplishments.
Failure wants you to own your own incompetence.
Failure wants you to be confident in your inability to do anything.
Failure doesn't want you to try; failure wants you to fail.
Failure wants you to get over your fear of failure
And what better way to do that than to fail and fail again?
If at first you don't succeed, fail and fail again.
And fail again.
And fail again.
And walk tall. And stand up, and say, "I am a failure.
"I am a failure.
"I am a failure."
If it is difficult to do this
If it is difficult for you to think of yourself as a failure
If, for example,
You have a good career,
A nice place to live,
A happy family,
A lot of money,
A sense of purpose,
Or belief that in the end,
Everything will all work out
Remember all the things in your life you tried to do,
But never, ever could.
Think of how when you were five, and you wanted to be an astronaut,
And then the space program went into the toilet.
Think of how much you wanted to have sex with such-and-such a person,
And you were rejected, or too shy to even try.
Think of how many times in your life things didn't go your way, and remember:
External forces are never to blame.
You are the center of your universe, the only force that can ever affect you.
Therefore, anything that doesn't work out for you is all your fault.
You are responsible for all of your successes, and the lack thereof.
And that is the essential point that failure, your ever-faithful friend, wants to make:
That your failure could not exist without you
Without your stupidity, without your lies, without your mistakes,
Your uselessness, your lack of faith, your ineptitude,
Your unjustifiable confidence in your alleged abilities, you stupid loser
Failure is your only friend.
Failure is your only lover. Failure is your only hope.
So befriend it. Make love to it.
And believe in it with all your might.
Because failure is all there is for you.
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