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"
Watched you float away on a wave of want and misery
Now I've got to find you
I watched you float away on whatever caught your eye
Now I've got to find you
'Cause I've got to keep your head above the water
While the current pulls me under
I will hang my life in the space between the noose and your neck
I won't let you die just yet
I will love you even when you won't let me
And you will kill me by doing nothing
But I know it's not you, my dear
I know it's not you
I know it's not you, my dear,
It's the nothing that kills
Nothing, nothing, nothing
I can't save you
Control is something out of mine
No, I can't save you
Control is something out of my control
I will love you even when you won't let me
And you will kill me by doing nothing
But I know it's not you, my dear
I know it's not you
I know it's not you, my dear, it's the nothing that kills
Nothing, nothing, nothing
I can't save you but I will love you
No, I can't save you but I will love you
I'd like to think that this is love
Lost in second chances without end
This is romance
This is romance
I would like to think that this my lost in second chances without end
I would like to think that this is love lost
Second chances without end
Now I've got to find you
I watched you float away on whatever caught your eye
Now I've got to find you
'Cause I've got to keep your head above the water
While the current pulls me under
I will hang my life in the space between the noose and your neck
I won't let you die just yet
I will love you even when you won't let me
And you will kill me by doing nothing
But I know it's not you, my dear
I know it's not you
I know it's not you, my dear,
It's the nothing that kills
Nothing, nothing, nothing
I can't save you
Control is something out of mine
No, I can't save you
Control is something out of my control
I will love you even when you won't let me
And you will kill me by doing nothing
But I know it's not you, my dear
I know it's not you
I know it's not you, my dear, it's the nothing that kills
Nothing, nothing, nothing
I can't save you but I will love you
No, I can't save you but I will love you
I'd like to think that this is love
Lost in second chances without end
This is romance
This is romance
I would like to think that this my lost in second chances without end
I would like to think that this is love lost
Second chances without end
Lyrics submitted by DarkerShadeofWinter, edited by iluvsagwa
Of Want And Misery: The Nothing That Kills Lyrics as written by Cody Bonnette
Lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing
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