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"
This is more than a haircut
I'm wearing on my head
I thought I'd dye it red
But got it cut instead
And maybe I could send you
My long blonde locks
'Cause you were always
After something, baby
Something I'm not
See, I'm darker underneath,
I'm darker by far
I'm dark as hell
You know who you are
My eyes, I always,
I wished they where green
My skin is so damn brown
But the sun, it don't see
And fingernails
I could've stuck them on
The hair on my lip
I should've waxed it off
Yeah, I know my lips could do
With a little more pout
The mole on my chin
I can do with out
And my cheekbones,
They never sat real high
I'll get some bone put in,
They can take it from
My thighs
I'm darker underneath,
I'm darker by far
I'm as dark as hell
You know who you are
So now when I make love
I make love to myself
I got no disease
So it's good for my health
I got my hands in my pants
Down my Calvin Kleins
I don't need you no more, baby
I can come every time
I'm darker underneath,
I'm darker by far
I'm as dark as hell
You know who you are
Don't you ever show
Your face here again
To me or any of my friends
'Cause I'm glad I found out
What you're all about
When I finally fell
Down off my cloud
Cause, baby, when you ran away
You broke my heart
You kept my Kerouac books
And that old guitar
And I am darker underneath,
I'm darker by far
I'm as dark as all hell,
You know what you are
I don't need to tell you,
You know what you are
I don't need to tell you,
You know what you are
I don't need to tell you
I don't need to tell you, no
You know what you are
This is more than a haircut
I'm wearing on my head
I thought I'd dye it red
But got it cut instead.
I'm wearing on my head
I thought I'd dye it red
But got it cut instead
And maybe I could send you
My long blonde locks
'Cause you were always
After something, baby
Something I'm not
See, I'm darker underneath,
I'm darker by far
I'm dark as hell
You know who you are
My eyes, I always,
I wished they where green
My skin is so damn brown
But the sun, it don't see
And fingernails
I could've stuck them on
The hair on my lip
I should've waxed it off
Yeah, I know my lips could do
With a little more pout
The mole on my chin
I can do with out
And my cheekbones,
They never sat real high
I'll get some bone put in,
They can take it from
My thighs
I'm darker underneath,
I'm darker by far
I'm as dark as hell
You know who you are
So now when I make love
I make love to myself
I got no disease
So it's good for my health
I got my hands in my pants
Down my Calvin Kleins
I don't need you no more, baby
I can come every time
I'm darker underneath,
I'm darker by far
I'm as dark as hell
You know who you are
Don't you ever show
Your face here again
To me or any of my friends
'Cause I'm glad I found out
What you're all about
When I finally fell
Down off my cloud
Cause, baby, when you ran away
You broke my heart
You kept my Kerouac books
And that old guitar
And I am darker underneath,
I'm darker by far
I'm as dark as all hell,
You know what you are
I don't need to tell you,
You know what you are
I don't need to tell you,
You know what you are
I don't need to tell you
I don't need to tell you, no
You know what you are
This is more than a haircut
I'm wearing on my head
I thought I'd dye it red
But got it cut instead.
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Pretty good song. Also there is the refernce to influential writer Jack Kerouac!