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"
Hardcore and feeling retro
It feels so faux, it feels so hollow
Not better than the first time
But better than the last
We're feeling sentimental
Hey, oh, lets go
Mainstream strikes a pose and
Infects the scene
It seems so unclean
Viva mexi-Japa...
To get right back to your ha ha
Words last
Like these songs
Lodged in our heads
So long, so long, yeah
So long, so long, so long
Blast off corner new worlds
And say hands off
This is our band
Overdrive is slippin'
And so is our grip
We're feeling sentimental
Hey, oh, lets go
Save us
We'll come and go like reunion tours stuck in ruins
Islands in the desert we'll sink
But all we have to do is sit and wait
And words last
Like these songs
They're lodged in our heads
So long, so long, yeah
So long, so long, so long
It feels so faux, it feels so hollow
Not better than the first time
But better than the last
We're feeling sentimental
Hey, oh, lets go
Mainstream strikes a pose and
Infects the scene
It seems so unclean
Viva mexi-Japa...
To get right back to your ha ha
Words last
Like these songs
Lodged in our heads
So long, so long, yeah
So long, so long, so long
Blast off corner new worlds
And say hands off
This is our band
Overdrive is slippin'
And so is our grip
We're feeling sentimental
Hey, oh, lets go
Save us
We'll come and go like reunion tours stuck in ruins
Islands in the desert we'll sink
But all we have to do is sit and wait
And words last
Like these songs
They're lodged in our heads
So long, so long, yeah
So long, so long, so long
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