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'm feeling lost,
I'm feeling like my heart's
Been carved out with a spoon
Put on display for all to witness this decay of me and you
Awaking and taking the cycle of breaking up
To a whole new level
Shaking and faking like you're making a hard choice not to settle
Imbedded, I'm think headed
I shredded all the letters you sent
Don't get it. why'd you let it get this far
Lights out lights out Pass the herb
Lights out lights out kiss the curb
Lights out lights out your heart has turned
Who's going to save me every time I crash and Burn
And I crash and burn
I'm sick of endings
I'm done pretending
I just want you back to normal
I think you don't know just how you feel
And every time you think of me
Remember how things used to be not long ago
Whoa
I'll fated,I skated,
To the party faded,and I saw you there
I waited, hated, getting ignored
You stated you didn't care
Flashes of car crashed and
Your ashes burning the cement
The curtain fails, last call, credits roll
We have reached the end
Lights out lights out Pass the herb
Lights out lights out kiss the curb
Lights out lights out your heart has turned
Who's going to save you every time you crash and Burn
Crash and burn
I'm sick of endings
I'm done pretending
I just want you back to normal
I think you don't know just how you feel
And every time you think of me
Remember how things used to be not long ago
Sick of endings
I'm done pretending
Tired of fighting
I'm sick of always trying
I'm feeling lost,
I'm feeling like my heart's
Been carved out with a spoon
Put on display for all to witness this decay of me and you
I just want you back to normal
I think you don't know just how you feel
And every time you think of me
Remember how things used to be not long ago
Whoa
Lights out lights out Pass the herb
Lights out lights out kiss the curb
Lights out lights out your heart has turned
Who's going to save me every time I crash and Burn
I crash and burn
I crash and burn
I'm feeling like my heart's
Been carved out with a spoon
Put on display for all to witness this decay of me and you
Awaking and taking the cycle of breaking up
To a whole new level
Shaking and faking like you're making a hard choice not to settle
Imbedded, I'm think headed
I shredded all the letters you sent
Don't get it. why'd you let it get this far
Lights out lights out Pass the herb
Lights out lights out kiss the curb
Lights out lights out your heart has turned
Who's going to save me every time I crash and Burn
And I crash and burn
I'm sick of endings
I'm done pretending
I just want you back to normal
I think you don't know just how you feel
And every time you think of me
Remember how things used to be not long ago
Whoa
I'll fated,I skated,
To the party faded,and I saw you there
I waited, hated, getting ignored
You stated you didn't care
Flashes of car crashed and
Your ashes burning the cement
The curtain fails, last call, credits roll
We have reached the end
Lights out lights out Pass the herb
Lights out lights out kiss the curb
Lights out lights out your heart has turned
Who's going to save you every time you crash and Burn
Crash and burn
I'm sick of endings
I'm done pretending
I just want you back to normal
I think you don't know just how you feel
And every time you think of me
Remember how things used to be not long ago
Sick of endings
I'm done pretending
Tired of fighting
I'm sick of always trying
I'm feeling lost,
I'm feeling like my heart's
Been carved out with a spoon
Put on display for all to witness this decay of me and you
I just want you back to normal
I think you don't know just how you feel
And every time you think of me
Remember how things used to be not long ago
Whoa
Lights out lights out Pass the herb
Lights out lights out kiss the curb
Lights out lights out your heart has turned
Who's going to save me every time I crash and Burn
I crash and burn
I crash and burn
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