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'll stop the day
You'll rise again
Don't count the news man to signal the end
'Cos you can trust your farthest friends across the world
We'll take the car
You're in the room but your head's in the stars
You can run, but you can't hide who you are
He couldn't stay
Thanksgiving's gone
His growing children continue his song
He was young
Did nothing wrong
I tried to say I miss you tonight
And they claim you've already died
But the truth is that we're lost in time
We're lost in time
We're lost in time
We're losing time
These haunted dreams are brushed aside
We'll meet again
Another life
I tried to say I miss you tonight
And they claim you've already died
But the truth is that we're lost in time
We're lost in time
We're lost in time
We're losing time
Time...
You'll rise again
Don't count the news man to signal the end
'Cos you can trust your farthest friends across the world
We'll take the car
You're in the room but your head's in the stars
You can run, but you can't hide who you are
He couldn't stay
Thanksgiving's gone
His growing children continue his song
He was young
Did nothing wrong
I tried to say I miss you tonight
And they claim you've already died
But the truth is that we're lost in time
We're lost in time
We're lost in time
We're losing time
These haunted dreams are brushed aside
We'll meet again
Another life
I tried to say I miss you tonight
And they claim you've already died
But the truth is that we're lost in time
We're lost in time
We're lost in time
We're losing time
Time...
Lyrics submitted by tomStrangelove
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