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"
Tutto è santo
Tutto è santo
Tutto è santo
Non c'è niente di naturale nella natura ragazzo mio
Tentilo bene in mente
(laughter)
Whoooo!
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Noooo! (laughter)
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take
Time and a time, a time and a time
A time and a time, a time and a time
A time and a time, a time and a time
A time and a time, a time and a time
That which is now
And that which is to be hath already been
That which is now hath already been
To be and that which is
That which is now
For the first time in the history of the world a young girl climbed into a tree one day. She climbed down from the tree next day. God bless her.
Time
Something is happening that is not happening.
Take
Sex (laughter)
Something is happening which is not happening at all.
time
Take
(laughter)
Ce n'est pas la longueur qui fait la puissance.
(laughter)
time
(That which is now)
Take time
(And that which is to be, that which is now hath already been)
Take time
(That which is now hath already been)
Take time
(There is no remembrance of former things)
Take time
(Time and a time, a time and a time)
Take time
(A time and a time, a time and a time)
Take time
(A time and a time, a time and a time)
Take time
(There is no new thing under the sun)
Take time
Take time
Take time
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Tutto è santo
Tutto è santo
Non c'è niente di naturale nella natura ragazzo mio
Tentilo bene in mente
(laughter)
Whoooo!
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Noooo! (laughter)
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take
Time and a time, a time and a time
A time and a time, a time and a time
A time and a time, a time and a time
A time and a time, a time and a time
That which is now
And that which is to be hath already been
That which is now hath already been
To be and that which is
That which is now
For the first time in the history of the world a young girl climbed into a tree one day. She climbed down from the tree next day. God bless her.
Time
Something is happening that is not happening.
Take
Sex (laughter)
Something is happening which is not happening at all.
time
Take
(laughter)
Ce n'est pas la longueur qui fait la puissance.
(laughter)
time
(That which is now)
Take time
(And that which is to be, that which is now hath already been)
Take time
(That which is now hath already been)
Take time
(There is no remembrance of former things)
Take time
(Time and a time, a time and a time)
Take time
(A time and a time, a time and a time)
Take time
(A time and a time, a time and a time)
Take time
(There is no new thing under the sun)
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
Take time
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