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 said goodbye to the old crowd
packed your life on a greyhound
wound up in this town
and there's something about the feel
of your last twenty dollar bill
that lets you know you'll be here for a while
you're holding on
to a dream that you doubt and you're holding fast
you're letting go
of a doubt that might remind you that you might not last
are you gonna last?
'cause at home no one ever put you down
not in this town
and at home you were feeling so unclear
how do you feel here?
'cause you're looking so confused
and feeling so bizarre
they don't know what to say
they don't know who you are in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
no, not in this town
she lights up union square
pushing through the turnstile
this is her town
and there's something about the way
she climbs the subway stairs
that lets you know she's been here for a while
you watch her go
as she catches your eye you think she might be the one
she might be good
give you everything you needed to turn you around
and she might pick you up from off the ground
feeling lost in this town
and she stops and you feel you're not alone
come here and lead me home
but you're feeling so confused
and looking so bizarre
she don't know what to say
she don't know who you are in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
no, not in this town
'cause at home no one ever put you down
not in this town
but at home you were feeling so unclear
how do you feel here?
those hopes have turned to fears
you wonder where you are
without a little light
you know you won't go far in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
not in this town
packed your life on a greyhound
wound up in this town
and there's something about the feel
of your last twenty dollar bill
that lets you know you'll be here for a while
you're holding on
to a dream that you doubt and you're holding fast
you're letting go
of a doubt that might remind you that you might not last
are you gonna last?
'cause at home no one ever put you down
not in this town
and at home you were feeling so unclear
how do you feel here?
'cause you're looking so confused
and feeling so bizarre
they don't know what to say
they don't know who you are in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
no, not in this town
she lights up union square
pushing through the turnstile
this is her town
and there's something about the way
she climbs the subway stairs
that lets you know she's been here for a while
you watch her go
as she catches your eye you think she might be the one
she might be good
give you everything you needed to turn you around
and she might pick you up from off the ground
feeling lost in this town
and she stops and you feel you're not alone
come here and lead me home
but you're feeling so confused
and looking so bizarre
she don't know what to say
she don't know who you are in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
no, not in this town
'cause at home no one ever put you down
not in this town
but at home you were feeling so unclear
how do you feel here?
those hopes have turned to fears
you wonder where you are
without a little light
you know you won't go far in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
no, not in this town
not in this town
not in this town
Lyrics submitted by wenchly
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