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"
Don't solve the problem
When danger is bitter
Fall where we stuck them
In cages of tither
And all the bridges you've burned
Leave you trapped off at all sides
And now the tables do turn
And it's all gone, what's left for you
And when the sky is falling
Don't look outside the window
Step back and hear I'm calling
Give up, don't take the fast road
It's just your doubt that binds you
Just drop those thoughts behind you, now
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Sit down, you're sinking
There's no one to watch you
Skip town, you're thinking
There's no one to stop you
And all the bridges you've burned
Leave you trapped off at all sides
And now the tables do turn
And it's all gone, what's left for you
And when the sky is falling
Don't look outside the window
Step back and hear I'm calling
Give up, don't take the fast road
It's just your doubt that binds you
Just drop those thoughts behind you, now
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Don't run away
Stop feeling fine
It's better than your worst, your worst day
No words to say, I'll give you mine
And pocket all the hurt, and just stay
Don't run away
It's better than your worst, your worst day
And when the sky is falling
Don't look outside the window
Step back and hear I'm calling
Give up, don't take the fast road
And when the sky is falling
Don't look outside the window
Step back and hear I'm calling
Give up, don't take the fast road
It's just your doubt that binds you
Just drop those thoughts behind you, now
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Don't run away
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Don't run away
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Don't run away
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Don't run away
Change your mind
When danger is bitter
Fall where we stuck them
In cages of tither
And all the bridges you've burned
Leave you trapped off at all sides
And now the tables do turn
And it's all gone, what's left for you
And when the sky is falling
Don't look outside the window
Step back and hear I'm calling
Give up, don't take the fast road
It's just your doubt that binds you
Just drop those thoughts behind you, now
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Sit down, you're sinking
There's no one to watch you
Skip town, you're thinking
There's no one to stop you
And all the bridges you've burned
Leave you trapped off at all sides
And now the tables do turn
And it's all gone, what's left for you
And when the sky is falling
Don't look outside the window
Step back and hear I'm calling
Give up, don't take the fast road
It's just your doubt that binds you
Just drop those thoughts behind you, now
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Don't run away
Stop feeling fine
It's better than your worst, your worst day
No words to say, I'll give you mine
And pocket all the hurt, and just stay
Don't run away
It's better than your worst, your worst day
And when the sky is falling
Don't look outside the window
Step back and hear I'm calling
Give up, don't take the fast road
And when the sky is falling
Don't look outside the window
Step back and hear I'm calling
Give up, don't take the fast road
It's just your doubt that binds you
Just drop those thoughts behind you, now
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Don't run away
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Don't run away
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Don't run away
Change your mind
You let go too soon
Don't run away
Change your mind
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208
Change Your Mind Lyrics as written by Tyson Ritter Nick Wheeler
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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