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"
When we get home, I know we won't be home at all
This place we live, it is not where we belong
And I miss who we were and the town we could call our own
Going back to get away after everything has changed
'Cause you remind me of a time when we were so alive
Everything has changed
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
Everything has changed
'Cause you help me push aside all that I have left behind
Everything has changed
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
So, we stand here now and no one knows us at all
I won't get used to this, I won't get used to being gone
And going back won't feel the same if we aren't staying
And going back to get away after everything has changed
'Cause you remind me of a time when we were so alive
Everything has changed
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
Everything has changed
'Cause you help me push aside all that I have left behind
Everything has changed
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
Taking up our time
Taking up our time
Taking up our time
It's taking up our time again
Go back, we can't go back at all
It's taking up our time again
Go back, we can't go back at all
It's taking up our time again
Go back, we can't go back at all
It's taking up our time
Taking up our time
'Cause you remind me of a time when we were so alive
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
This place we live, it is not where we belong
And I miss who we were and the town we could call our own
Going back to get away after everything has changed
'Cause you remind me of a time when we were so alive
Everything has changed
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
Everything has changed
'Cause you help me push aside all that I have left behind
Everything has changed
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
So, we stand here now and no one knows us at all
I won't get used to this, I won't get used to being gone
And going back won't feel the same if we aren't staying
And going back to get away after everything has changed
'Cause you remind me of a time when we were so alive
Everything has changed
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
Everything has changed
'Cause you help me push aside all that I have left behind
Everything has changed
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
Taking up our time
Taking up our time
Taking up our time
It's taking up our time again
Go back, we can't go back at all
It's taking up our time again
Go back, we can't go back at all
It's taking up our time again
Go back, we can't go back at all
It's taking up our time
Taking up our time
'Cause you remind me of a time when we were so alive
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208, edited by Emzee4life, lolaranby
Franklin Lyrics as written by Joshua Neil Farro Hayley Nichole Williams
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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