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"
Inside out, upside down twisting beside myself
Stop that now
Because you and I were never meant to meet
I think you better leave
It's not safe in here
I feel a weakness coming on
Alright then (Alright then)
I could keep your number for a rainy day
That's where this ends
No mistakes, no misbehaving
Oh, I was doing so well
Could we just be friends?
I feel a weakness coming on
[Chorus]
It's not meant to be like this
Not what I planned at all
I don't want to feel like this, yeah
No, it's not meant to be like this
Not what I planned at all
I don't want to feel like this
So that makes it all your fault
Inside out, upside down twisting beside myself
Stop that now
you're as close as it gets without touching me
Don't make it harder than it already is
I feel a weakness coming on
[Chorus]
Big trouble
Losing control
Primary resistance at a critical low
On the, on the double gotta get a hold
Point of no return
One second to go
No response on any level
Red alert this vessel's under siege
Total overload
All systems down
They've got control
There's no way out
We are surrounded
Give in, give in
And relish every minute of it
Freeze
Or make it forever
I feel a weakness coming on
It's not meant to be like this
Not what I planned at all
I don't want to feel like this
No it's not meant to be like this
It's just what I don't need
Don't make me feel like this
It's definitly all your fault
Be like this
La la la la la la la la
It's all your fault
(Feel like this)
La la la la la la la la
It's all your fault
(Feel like this)
La la la la la la la la
It's all your fault
(Feel like this)
La la la la la la la la
It's all your fault
Stop that now
Because you and I were never meant to meet
I think you better leave
It's not safe in here
I feel a weakness coming on
Alright then (Alright then)
I could keep your number for a rainy day
That's where this ends
No mistakes, no misbehaving
Oh, I was doing so well
Could we just be friends?
I feel a weakness coming on
[Chorus]
It's not meant to be like this
Not what I planned at all
I don't want to feel like this, yeah
No, it's not meant to be like this
Not what I planned at all
I don't want to feel like this
So that makes it all your fault
Inside out, upside down twisting beside myself
Stop that now
you're as close as it gets without touching me
Don't make it harder than it already is
I feel a weakness coming on
[Chorus]
Big trouble
Losing control
Primary resistance at a critical low
On the, on the double gotta get a hold
Point of no return
One second to go
No response on any level
Red alert this vessel's under siege
Total overload
All systems down
They've got control
There's no way out
We are surrounded
Give in, give in
And relish every minute of it
Freeze
Or make it forever
I feel a weakness coming on
It's not meant to be like this
Not what I planned at all
I don't want to feel like this
No it's not meant to be like this
It's just what I don't need
Don't make me feel like this
It's definitly all your fault
Be like this
La la la la la la la la
It's all your fault
(Feel like this)
La la la la la la la la
It's all your fault
(Feel like this)
La la la la la la la la
It's all your fault
(Feel like this)
La la la la la la la la
It's all your fault
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I didn't get the impression that the song is about a man and a woman who are good friends and slowly getting into a relationship. Instead, I took it to be about a woman who's built up quite a few "emotional barriers" for the protection of her emotions, and she's met someone who she's starting to develop romantic feelings for, and she's afraid because she doesn't want to risk getting hurt.
"It’s not safe in here I feel a weakness coming on"
They've reached a point in their relationship where she doesn't feel safe around him any more, not because of what he's doing, but because she can tell that she's not going to be able to keep him at a safe distance anymore.
"Oh, I was doing so well Could we just be friends? I feel a weakness coming on"
Again, she's felt that her method of dealing with the world has worked for her, and wants to keep up with it. So, hoping that she can just ignore her feelings, she offers friendship. And then we have the repetition of the line about her weakness.
And then the chorus:
"It's not meant to be like this Not what I planned at all I don't want to feel like this, yeah No, it's not meant to be like this Not what I planned at all I don't want to feel like this So that makes it all your fault"
Where she talks about how she hadn't planned this, how she's confused and upset because she doesn't want this to happen, she doesn't want to end up caring for someone else. And then she blames the man, because she wouldn't have reached out for emotional contact herself.
Then the lines:
"Big trouble Losing control Primary resistance at a critical low"
and
"They've got control There's no way out We are surrounded"
Both talk about losing control (losing it to someone else) and the breaking down of her resistance.
Finally, with the lines:
"Give in, give in And relish every minute of it"
It seems to me that she comes to terms with the feelings she has for him, and more or less makes up her mind that she'll give into it, because the rewards are greater than the consequences.
i agree but not in the exact same sense but rather it is the typical scenario of a guy wants the girl but she thinks nothing of him,('cause you and i were never meant to be)<br /> <br /> he then tries harder and she slowly falls for him, (oh alright then i cna keep your number for a rainy day) and she tries multiple times to stop it (can we just be friends)..<br /> <br /> then comes the chorus where she talks about how she doesn't want to fall for him<br /> <br />