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"
Lying on my back I feel you breathing
Sucking down the ghosts into your sleep
There's something in your spine that makes me nervous
Black that swells between us grows more deep
Cut the world in chords
Making melodies from words
And I'm confused again
Take all this abuse cause I ain't got much to lose
It's a starry starry night out here on hope street
But hope gives way to hunger when you're poor
With pockets full of promises and poems
I know that you ain't worth much anymore
Spoke in broken time
Twisted rhythms, crooked rhymes
And I'm confused again
Paint my world in blue
Cause I've never liked to lose
I don't think I want to spend another night with you
I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
I don't think I want to spend another night with you
I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
Standing in the half light of the morning
I watch the shadows lace across my shoes
There's something in your voice that makes me nervous
If I can tell we're lying, why can't you?
The song that's in my head
Is playing backwards in this bed
And I'm confused again
Seems like I have to choose
It feels like either way I lose
Cause I don't think I want to spend another night with you
Well I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
I don't think I want to spend another night with you
I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
Spoke in broken time
Crooked rhythms, twisted rhymes
And I'm confused again
Either way I choose
I know I'm gonna lose
I don't think I want to spend another night with you
I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
I don't think I want to spend another night with you
I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
(I don't think I want to spend another night with you)
Feeling the way you leave me to
(I don't think I want to spend another night with you)
Feeling the way you leave me to
(I don't think I want to spend another night with you)
Feeling the way you leave me to
(I don't think I want to spend another night with you)
Come On!
Sucking down the ghosts into your sleep
There's something in your spine that makes me nervous
Black that swells between us grows more deep
Cut the world in chords
Making melodies from words
And I'm confused again
Take all this abuse cause I ain't got much to lose
It's a starry starry night out here on hope street
But hope gives way to hunger when you're poor
With pockets full of promises and poems
I know that you ain't worth much anymore
Spoke in broken time
Twisted rhythms, crooked rhymes
And I'm confused again
Paint my world in blue
Cause I've never liked to lose
I don't think I want to spend another night with you
I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
I don't think I want to spend another night with you
I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
Standing in the half light of the morning
I watch the shadows lace across my shoes
There's something in your voice that makes me nervous
If I can tell we're lying, why can't you?
The song that's in my head
Is playing backwards in this bed
And I'm confused again
Seems like I have to choose
It feels like either way I lose
Cause I don't think I want to spend another night with you
Well I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
I don't think I want to spend another night with you
I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
Spoke in broken time
Crooked rhythms, twisted rhymes
And I'm confused again
Either way I choose
I know I'm gonna lose
I don't think I want to spend another night with you
I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
I don't think I want to spend another night with you
I don't think I want to spend another day
Feeling the way you leave me to
(I don't think I want to spend another night with you)
Feeling the way you leave me to
(I don't think I want to spend another night with you)
Feeling the way you leave me to
(I don't think I want to spend another night with you)
Feeling the way you leave me to
(I don't think I want to spend another night with you)
Come On!
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This is such a clutch song. It is pretty self explanitory. He is confused by a relationship he has with a girl. In the past they werent always that honest with each other,and although they both know that the relationship will never go anywhere because of what they did or said in the past,they will not admit it to themselves. Good song....