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"
It's time for forgiveness.
It's time for relief.
It's time that we've wasted.
It's time that we need.
It's time for decision.
It's time to be brave.
It's the time of your life,
Don't let it slip away yeah
Boy,
You'll be running but can't get anywhere
Don't carry the weight of the world
Boy
It's time that we borrow.
It's time that we bleed.
It's time that will cure us.
You just gotta believe, yeah
There's a warning up ahead,
The alarms gone off again,
But the sun will fill the sky,
Fill the sky
Boy,
You'll be running but can't get anywhere
Don't carry the weight of the world
And boy,
Help is coming, I'll get you out of here.
Don't carry the weight of the world,
The weight of the world, the weight of the world
Just when you think you're done,
What can ever be won?
I'll be there to pick you up, and dust you off,
And bring you home, and make you feel,
Alive.
Don't carry the weight of the world
And boy,
You'll be running but can't get anywhere
Don't carry the weight of the world
And boy,
Help is coming, I'll get you out of here.
Don't carry the weight of the world,
The weight of the world,
And the weight of the world
The weight of the world,
And the weight of the world
Tonight, is a fireball,
And tonight, oh you're not alone
And tonight, we start again,
Tonight, all the best is yet,
To come.
It's time for relief.
It's time that we've wasted.
It's time that we need.
It's time for decision.
It's time to be brave.
It's the time of your life,
Don't let it slip away yeah
Boy,
You'll be running but can't get anywhere
Don't carry the weight of the world
Boy
It's time that we borrow.
It's time that we bleed.
It's time that will cure us.
You just gotta believe, yeah
There's a warning up ahead,
The alarms gone off again,
But the sun will fill the sky,
Fill the sky
Boy,
You'll be running but can't get anywhere
Don't carry the weight of the world
And boy,
Help is coming, I'll get you out of here.
Don't carry the weight of the world,
The weight of the world, the weight of the world
Just when you think you're done,
What can ever be won?
I'll be there to pick you up, and dust you off,
And bring you home, and make you feel,
Alive.
Don't carry the weight of the world
And boy,
You'll be running but can't get anywhere
Don't carry the weight of the world
And boy,
Help is coming, I'll get you out of here.
Don't carry the weight of the world,
The weight of the world,
And the weight of the world
The weight of the world,
And the weight of the world
Tonight, is a fireball,
And tonight, oh you're not alone
And tonight, we start again,
Tonight, all the best is yet,
To come.
Lyrics submitted by hellarack99
Boy Lyrics as written by Jeremy Taggart Michael Maida
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