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"
If this is it, then I've given all I can
The road that leads to nowhere
Has fallen in my hands
If this is it, then the needle has been found
The haystack is long gone and
The world's turned upside down
I see right through you everything you do
Leech on the side of me
Covert hostility, your negativity
Drains to get what you need
Your vampire logic turned out tragic
Lost your meal ticket to feed
Karma got to you ego ate through you
Nothing left to do but to bleed
Now out come the wolves out come the wolves
Out come the wolves out come the wolves
Cave in, just surrender
You know you're already six feet down
Cave in, just surrender
'Cuz you have nowhere to go but down
Right now it's over right now it's over
Right now it's over right now
Your friends call them yes men
Ain't always the best men to
Trust in or to believe
The credit you were taking
Let's just call it faking
Is obvious, everyone can see
Got a good ride on our coat tails
Now it's time to set sail
And leave you tied up to the tree
Karma got to you ego ate through you
Nothing left to do but to bleed
Now out come the wolves out come the wolves
Out come the wolves out come the wolves
Cave in, just surrender
You know you're already six feet down
Cave in, just surrender
'Cuz you have nowhere to go but down
Out come, out come the wolves
Out come, out come the wolves
Out come, out come the wolves
Out come, out come the wolves
Come and get it they can smell it
Fear is what controls you if you let it
It will divot your entire soul through
They're on to you come and get it
They can smell it fear is what controls you
If you let it it will divot
Your entire soul through they're on to you
They're on to they're on to you
Cave in, just surrender
You know you're already six feet down
Cave in, just surrender
'Cuz you have nowhere to go
Cave in, just surrender
You know you're already six feet down
Cave in, just surrender
'Cuz you have nowhere to go but down
Right now it's over right now it's over
Right now it's over right now
The road that leads to nowhere
Has fallen in my hands
If this is it, then the needle has been found
The haystack is long gone and
The world's turned upside down
I see right through you everything you do
Leech on the side of me
Covert hostility, your negativity
Drains to get what you need
Your vampire logic turned out tragic
Lost your meal ticket to feed
Karma got to you ego ate through you
Nothing left to do but to bleed
Now out come the wolves out come the wolves
Out come the wolves out come the wolves
Cave in, just surrender
You know you're already six feet down
Cave in, just surrender
'Cuz you have nowhere to go but down
Right now it's over right now it's over
Right now it's over right now
Your friends call them yes men
Ain't always the best men to
Trust in or to believe
The credit you were taking
Let's just call it faking
Is obvious, everyone can see
Got a good ride on our coat tails
Now it's time to set sail
And leave you tied up to the tree
Karma got to you ego ate through you
Nothing left to do but to bleed
Now out come the wolves out come the wolves
Out come the wolves out come the wolves
Cave in, just surrender
You know you're already six feet down
Cave in, just surrender
'Cuz you have nowhere to go but down
Out come, out come the wolves
Out come, out come the wolves
Out come, out come the wolves
Out come, out come the wolves
Come and get it they can smell it
Fear is what controls you if you let it
It will divot your entire soul through
They're on to you come and get it
They can smell it fear is what controls you
If you let it it will divot
Your entire soul through they're on to you
They're on to they're on to you
Cave in, just surrender
You know you're already six feet down
Cave in, just surrender
'Cuz you have nowhere to go
Cave in, just surrender
You know you're already six feet down
Cave in, just surrender
'Cuz you have nowhere to go but down
Right now it's over right now it's over
Right now it's over right now
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