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"
I shut my eyes in hopes to find
A place where I can hide
From all the pain
From all that never was
And all that will never be
Why is it that scars on the outside
Don't hurt nearly as much as those within
Is it because we know we can never win
How can we find the time so I can finally call you mine
I wish that there was something I could say
Something I could do to make you want to stay
I just keep fucking up every day
Every chance that comes my way
I never knew feelings like this could exsist
I try to back down but I can't resist
I know I'll only end up hurting myself
When I see your body and I wanna be close
I try to hold back from what I want the most
Because even your greatest flaw is a perfection in itself
I hold my breath to keep from saying
Something that later I might regret
So I just sit and watch and light another cigarette
And wonder what you really think of me
I don't expect a thing from you
But I would die for one more kiss
So I'm looking to the stars
And I'm singing out my wish
I know that I get crazy
And sometimes I push you over the top
But try to understand
That my heart started writing and it just won't stop
I never knew feelings like this could exsist
I try to back down but I can't resist
I know I'll only end up hurting myself
When I see your body and I wanna be close
I try to hold back from what I want the most
Because even your greatest flaw is a perfection in itself
I can't see anything wrong with you
Never ending celestial being
You must be an angel
Because even your greatest flaw is perfect
I knew it was too good to be true
And now my greatest flaw
Is that I can't stop thinking of you
A place where I can hide
From all the pain
From all that never was
And all that will never be
Why is it that scars on the outside
Don't hurt nearly as much as those within
Is it because we know we can never win
How can we find the time so I can finally call you mine
I wish that there was something I could say
Something I could do to make you want to stay
I just keep fucking up every day
Every chance that comes my way
I never knew feelings like this could exsist
I try to back down but I can't resist
I know I'll only end up hurting myself
When I see your body and I wanna be close
I try to hold back from what I want the most
Because even your greatest flaw is a perfection in itself
I hold my breath to keep from saying
Something that later I might regret
So I just sit and watch and light another cigarette
And wonder what you really think of me
I don't expect a thing from you
But I would die for one more kiss
So I'm looking to the stars
And I'm singing out my wish
I know that I get crazy
And sometimes I push you over the top
But try to understand
That my heart started writing and it just won't stop
I never knew feelings like this could exsist
I try to back down but I can't resist
I know I'll only end up hurting myself
When I see your body and I wanna be close
I try to hold back from what I want the most
Because even your greatest flaw is a perfection in itself
I can't see anything wrong with you
Never ending celestial being
You must be an angel
Because even your greatest flaw is perfect
I knew it was too good to be true
And now my greatest flaw
Is that I can't stop thinking of you
Lyrics submitted by NothingFinal
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