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"
Sie herzte sanft ihr spielzeug
Bevor sie es zerbrach
Und hatte eine sehnsucht
Und wußte nicht wonach
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr mund so rot wie wein
Und wer von diesem wein trank
Konnt’ nie mehr glücklich sein
Doch einer sprach I’m frühling:
Auch du fühlst lust und schmerz
Und brach ihr tausend rosen
Doch sie brach nur sein herz
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr mund so rot wie wein
Ja, keine konnt’ so küssen
Und doch so einsam sein
Was blieb von ihrem leben
Ein lied, das niemand sang
Sankt peter ließ sie warten
Zwei ewigkeiten lang
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr herz so tot wie stein
Dann rief er: armes kind, komm,
Sollst nie mehr einsam sein
Bevor sie es zerbrach
Und hatte eine sehnsucht
Und wußte nicht wonach
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr mund so rot wie wein
Und wer von diesem wein trank
Konnt’ nie mehr glücklich sein
Doch einer sprach I’m frühling:
Auch du fühlst lust und schmerz
Und brach ihr tausend rosen
Doch sie brach nur sein herz
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr mund so rot wie wein
Ja, keine konnt’ so küssen
Und doch so einsam sein
Was blieb von ihrem leben
Ein lied, das niemand sang
Sankt peter ließ sie warten
Zwei ewigkeiten lang
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr herz so tot wie stein
Dann rief er: armes kind, komm,
Sollst nie mehr einsam sein
Lyrics submitted by saturnine
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