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"
Here's that part again where everything's more than it should be
and greener seems to fall beneath your feet
Seconds tick like boulders whenever you don't call
Does it seem like that where you are?
Wherever it is you are?
Does it seem like that where you are?
Time for time together and depending on the weather
We'll either argue in your house or outside
Different I've felt before I got this notch in my belt
Cause in my plans you were all for me
Yeah but now it seems that you'd just rather leave
Wherever you go
Is breaking me slowly
Don't leave it alone
Don't leave it alone
You sound so much further on the phone
You fit just right, right next to me
But there's always a reason why it can't be
Telephones make you seem miles away from home
All alone I get a little meaner
I leave a message at your tone
And miles away from home
You get a little cleaner of me
And I find a little grenner shade of envy
Wherever you go is breaking me slowly
Don't leave it alone
Don't leave it alone
You sound so much further on the phone
You fit just right, right next to me
But there's always a reason why it can't be
Tissues get used
Getting rid of you
Don't you see what you do to me
And you just let it be
I wish you'd get used
And then come running back
To the shoulder that's become me
To the shoulder that's me
Wherever you are
Is breaking my heart
Don't leave it alone
Don't leave it alone
You fit just right, right next to me
and greener seems to fall beneath your feet
Seconds tick like boulders whenever you don't call
Does it seem like that where you are?
Wherever it is you are?
Does it seem like that where you are?
Time for time together and depending on the weather
We'll either argue in your house or outside
Different I've felt before I got this notch in my belt
Cause in my plans you were all for me
Yeah but now it seems that you'd just rather leave
Wherever you go
Is breaking me slowly
Don't leave it alone
Don't leave it alone
You sound so much further on the phone
You fit just right, right next to me
But there's always a reason why it can't be
Telephones make you seem miles away from home
All alone I get a little meaner
I leave a message at your tone
And miles away from home
You get a little cleaner of me
And I find a little grenner shade of envy
Wherever you go is breaking me slowly
Don't leave it alone
Don't leave it alone
You sound so much further on the phone
You fit just right, right next to me
But there's always a reason why it can't be
Tissues get used
Getting rid of you
Don't you see what you do to me
And you just let it be
I wish you'd get used
And then come running back
To the shoulder that's become me
To the shoulder that's me
Wherever you are
Is breaking my heart
Don't leave it alone
Don't leave it alone
You fit just right, right next to me
Lyrics submitted by sheslikeohsoemo, edited by novacrusher32
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