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"
Have you ever stopped to think why we don't remember our dreams in the morning?
Well, if you have, I bet you've never woken up to catch them in the act of loaning you your memories...
For me, it happens when I light up a smoke - the filter takes me back to one year ago...
Tricks my brain into thinking I must be drinking with friends I've known and will always know.
It's funny how a smell triggers thoughts like a song can bring back three minutes you've forgotten
Of love gone wrong, or maybe friends gone right - and it's trying to think you'll only think of them at night
This is home (X8)
Can you remember all the good times you've had?
Staying up late and making them with friends?
Then finally falling asleep only to wake up from chasing and catch your dreams?
Like an August afternoon offers me the shot to fantasize life, I pretend it's hot outside
So, I dress light and grab a pack as if I'm traveling to Costa Rica and back
I step into a breeze as quiet as a time when camp fires spoke for us and crackled in rhyme
Gazing at these creatures, I am all alone to catch my dreams in the act of taking me home...
This is home (X8)
Can you remember all the good times you've had?
Staying up late and making them with friends?
Then finally falling asleep only to wake up from chasing and catch your dreams?
Well, if you have, I bet you've never woken up to catch them in the act of loaning you your memories...
For me, it happens when I light up a smoke - the filter takes me back to one year ago...
Tricks my brain into thinking I must be drinking with friends I've known and will always know.
It's funny how a smell triggers thoughts like a song can bring back three minutes you've forgotten
Of love gone wrong, or maybe friends gone right - and it's trying to think you'll only think of them at night
This is home (X8)
Can you remember all the good times you've had?
Staying up late and making them with friends?
Then finally falling asleep only to wake up from chasing and catch your dreams?
Like an August afternoon offers me the shot to fantasize life, I pretend it's hot outside
So, I dress light and grab a pack as if I'm traveling to Costa Rica and back
I step into a breeze as quiet as a time when camp fires spoke for us and crackled in rhyme
Gazing at these creatures, I am all alone to catch my dreams in the act of taking me home...
This is home (X8)
Can you remember all the good times you've had?
Staying up late and making them with friends?
Then finally falling asleep only to wake up from chasing and catch your dreams?
Lyrics submitted by rmorriso
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