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"
You're Sylvia Plath
As you drip from the bath
I hand you a robe
And so it goes
The moment had pass
You're Simone de Beauvoir
As you get out the car
The way you read me
No one can see me
It's who you are
And these photographs keep me alive
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
You're Nina Simone
When you talk on the phone
You sing to me
And I'm truly
No longer alone
You're Mary Cassatt
When people tell you you're not
You're like a child
All the while
I need you a lot
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
And I wanna know what you know
And I wanna go where you go
These things remind me of
These things remind me of
These things remind me of you
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
As you drip from the bath
I hand you a robe
And so it goes
The moment had pass
You're Simone de Beauvoir
As you get out the car
The way you read me
No one can see me
It's who you are
And these photographs keep me alive
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
You're Nina Simone
When you talk on the phone
You sing to me
And I'm truly
No longer alone
You're Mary Cassatt
When people tell you you're not
You're like a child
All the while
I need you a lot
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
And I wanna know what you know
And I wanna go where you go
These things remind me of
These things remind me of
These things remind me of you
Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise
Lyrics submitted by it_girl_ragDOLL
These Photographs Lyrics as written by Joshua Ryan Radin
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Missing Link Music
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