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 barely move, I can barely see where we're going now
The road is washed out from the river that flooded just north of town
We stick, stick, stick, stick to the plan we laid out, but we know the saying
The best, best, best, best plans of both mice and men can go terribly wrong, they probably will
So please, nobody speaks, nobody get any smart ideas
If we don't have any heroics we may just get out of here
And home to your families by dinner time, safely and soundly sleeping
‘cause we don't want trouble, we'll take what we came for and we'll leave quiet, or maybe we will
Tear you up, take what you love, and burn it down, burn it down
Nobody moves, nobody moves and no one gets hurt
Nobody opens their mouth and we have nothing to worry about
We'll keep, keep, keep, keep you alive ‘cause we always need bargaining chips
We'll keep, keep, keep, keep you alive ‘cause you're pretty, and we need something to look at while we
Tear you up, take what you love, and burn it down, and burn it down
You swear to build, we swear to come and burn it down, burn it down
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Measure again, yeah
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again, yeah
Wandering the halls ( … … )
Sinking our teeth into the wall for blood
( … … ) in magazines
Break all the locks without the combination
I know where you hid it, I consider it mine
Went to the ground without a planning or feeling
And keep me alert until the next valentine
Please cut me up, cut me apart and make me
The lover you wanted when you were young and asleep
And I'm fine when your youth burns like coal from a bottle
The lover you wanted while you waited so long
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Measure again, yeah
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again, yeah
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Measure again, yeah
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again, yeah
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Measure again, yeah
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again, yeah
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Measure again, yeah
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again, yeah
The road is washed out from the river that flooded just north of town
We stick, stick, stick, stick to the plan we laid out, but we know the saying
The best, best, best, best plans of both mice and men can go terribly wrong, they probably will
So please, nobody speaks, nobody get any smart ideas
If we don't have any heroics we may just get out of here
And home to your families by dinner time, safely and soundly sleeping
‘cause we don't want trouble, we'll take what we came for and we'll leave quiet, or maybe we will
Tear you up, take what you love, and burn it down, burn it down
Nobody moves, nobody moves and no one gets hurt
Nobody opens their mouth and we have nothing to worry about
We'll keep, keep, keep, keep you alive ‘cause we always need bargaining chips
We'll keep, keep, keep, keep you alive ‘cause you're pretty, and we need something to look at while we
Tear you up, take what you love, and burn it down, and burn it down
You swear to build, we swear to come and burn it down, burn it down
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Measure again, yeah
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again, yeah
Wandering the halls ( … … )
Sinking our teeth into the wall for blood
( … … ) in magazines
Break all the locks without the combination
I know where you hid it, I consider it mine
Went to the ground without a planning or feeling
And keep me alert until the next valentine
Please cut me up, cut me apart and make me
The lover you wanted when you were young and asleep
And I'm fine when your youth burns like coal from a bottle
The lover you wanted while you waited so long
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Measure again, yeah
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again, yeah
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Measure again, yeah
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again, yeah
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Measure again, yeah
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again, yeah
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Measure again, yeah
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again, yeah
Lyrics submitted by cato11087, edited by Mellow_Harsher, Blondiie, SephNite
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