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 can see that someone went and left you hanging from a string
And if I pulled hard I could make you do most anything
You can run from the past but mistakes are meant to last
Between the lines these are mine
The moment that you go is the moment that you know
That the best thing in your life is happening
So look me in the eye
And say you'll never say goodbye
I know the best thing in my life is happening now
You can tell your father I know that he won't let you be
Doesn't wanna believe that you see him in me
But the way that you lay so serene inside the gloom
I don't care
I don't care
The moment that we go is the moment that we'll know
That the best thing in our life is happening
So before we say good bye and leave them all behind
Know the best thing in our life is happening now
And I won't let you ever fade
Like a sunburn wasted in L A
And if we fall down breaking all along the way
I'll lift you up and that's a promise that I'll never break
And then you won't and then you won't
We sit on the steps reading graffiti on the wall
The smile on your face, more than words it says it all
On your way you will find the meaning in the rhyme
You are mine
You are mine
The moment that you go is the moment that you know
That the best thing in your life is happening
Before we say goodbye
Just look me in the eye
I know the best thing in my life is happening now
And if I pulled hard I could make you do most anything
You can run from the past but mistakes are meant to last
Between the lines these are mine
The moment that you go is the moment that you know
That the best thing in your life is happening
So look me in the eye
And say you'll never say goodbye
I know the best thing in my life is happening now
You can tell your father I know that he won't let you be
Doesn't wanna believe that you see him in me
But the way that you lay so serene inside the gloom
I don't care
I don't care
The moment that we go is the moment that we'll know
That the best thing in our life is happening
So before we say good bye and leave them all behind
Know the best thing in our life is happening now
And I won't let you ever fade
Like a sunburn wasted in L A
And if we fall down breaking all along the way
I'll lift you up and that's a promise that I'll never break
And then you won't and then you won't
We sit on the steps reading graffiti on the wall
The smile on your face, more than words it says it all
On your way you will find the meaning in the rhyme
You are mine
You are mine
The moment that you go is the moment that you know
That the best thing in your life is happening
Before we say goodbye
Just look me in the eye
I know the best thing in my life is happening now
Lyrics submitted by Tri_T
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i first heard this song on myspace. it's such a nice song, but i can't get it on limwire!!arrggghh!
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