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"
It doesn't work that way
You've seen enough to know better
Better recalculate this
This time use your heart and not your mind
Maybe you just don't get it
And you've worked too hard to throw it all away
You're just not ready, baby
To start over again
Set, set, set, now you're ready to go
Couldn't make it better if it never belonged
Take your time, figure it out
It's a call to all the pain, this too shall pass
We?ll find a brand new way
You've seen enough to do better
When you recalculate it
Darling, use your heart
Maybe you just don't get it
And you've worked too hard to throw it all away
You're just not willing baby
To start over again
Set, set, set, now you're ready to go
Couldn't make it better if it never belonged
Can take your time, figure it out
It's a call to all the pain, this too shall pass
This too shall pass, this too shall pass
Ain't it funny how we starve for our salvation
Maybe it was there in front of you
Searching in the strangest of all places
Maybe it was there beside you, know that this will pass
All dressed up and you're ready to go
Couldn't make it better if it never belonged
Take your time, figure it out
Can't take away the pain, but it will pass, this too shall pass
Set, set, set, now you're ready to go
Couldn't make it better if it never belonged
Take your time, figure it out
It's a call to all the pain
Set, set, set, now you're ready to go
Take your time, figure it out
It's a call to all the pain, this too shall pass
This too shall pass, this too shall pass
You've seen enough to know better
Better recalculate this
This time use your heart and not your mind
Maybe you just don't get it
And you've worked too hard to throw it all away
You're just not ready, baby
To start over again
Set, set, set, now you're ready to go
Couldn't make it better if it never belonged
Take your time, figure it out
It's a call to all the pain, this too shall pass
We?ll find a brand new way
You've seen enough to do better
When you recalculate it
Darling, use your heart
Maybe you just don't get it
And you've worked too hard to throw it all away
You're just not willing baby
To start over again
Set, set, set, now you're ready to go
Couldn't make it better if it never belonged
Can take your time, figure it out
It's a call to all the pain, this too shall pass
This too shall pass, this too shall pass
Ain't it funny how we starve for our salvation
Maybe it was there in front of you
Searching in the strangest of all places
Maybe it was there beside you, know that this will pass
All dressed up and you're ready to go
Couldn't make it better if it never belonged
Take your time, figure it out
Can't take away the pain, but it will pass, this too shall pass
Set, set, set, now you're ready to go
Couldn't make it better if it never belonged
Take your time, figure it out
It's a call to all the pain
Set, set, set, now you're ready to go
Take your time, figure it out
It's a call to all the pain, this too shall pass
This too shall pass, this too shall pass
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