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"
So we went after the crash
We stepped out alone
An undivided healing
That swallows us whole
The air cuts like glass
And you taste like winter
And how long will you last?
Forever
And congratulations
You've become what you wanted
Steppin' out of this car with that look in your eye
Knowin' that you've never looked so beautiful
Telephone lines away
Death on the end and I'm screaming
Two-two-six on the door
Asking to make out while watching the war
So we went after the crash
We stepped out alone
An undivided healing
That swallows us
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
And I've got the proof to frame the way
As we danced, we bled across the floor
And that never endin' supply what we wished for
It took me fourteen hours to get this sore
Knowin' that you've never looked so beautiful
Telephone lines away
Death on the end and I'm screaming
Two-two-six on the door
Asking to make out while watching the war
So we went after the crash
We stepped out alone
An undivided healing
That swallows us
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
Twenty-five days and I still can't get this right
Twenty-five days and I still can't get this right
So we went after the crash
We stepped out alone
An undivided healing
That swallows us
(So we went)
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
(So we went)
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
Telephone lines away
Felt through a phone line
Telephone lines away
Felt through a phone line
We stepped out alone
An undivided healing
That swallows us whole
The air cuts like glass
And you taste like winter
And how long will you last?
Forever
And congratulations
You've become what you wanted
Steppin' out of this car with that look in your eye
Knowin' that you've never looked so beautiful
Telephone lines away
Death on the end and I'm screaming
Two-two-six on the door
Asking to make out while watching the war
So we went after the crash
We stepped out alone
An undivided healing
That swallows us
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
And I've got the proof to frame the way
As we danced, we bled across the floor
And that never endin' supply what we wished for
It took me fourteen hours to get this sore
Knowin' that you've never looked so beautiful
Telephone lines away
Death on the end and I'm screaming
Two-two-six on the door
Asking to make out while watching the war
So we went after the crash
We stepped out alone
An undivided healing
That swallows us
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
Twenty-five days and I still can't get this right
Twenty-five days and I still can't get this right
So we went after the crash
We stepped out alone
An undivided healing
That swallows us
(So we went)
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
(So we went)
Nothing's like this exit
Pale white skin on memory
Telephone lines away
Felt through a phone line
Telephone lines away
Felt through a phone line
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