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"
Closer than you ever knew
On and on, and on, and on
Closer than you ever wanted
On and on, and on, and on
Closer than you've ever been
On and on, and on, and on
Closer than you ever needed
On and on, and on, and on
And on
Here's to you, my lonely friend
On and on, and on, and on
Thanks to you, I never trusted, yeaaaah yeah.
Here's to you, my enemies
On and on, and on
Thanks to you, it's everlasting
On and on, and on, and on, and on [etc]
This feels just like it's yesterday
Uh-ho-oh Uh-ho-oh
When there's never a will, and there's never a way
This feels just like it's meant to be
Uh-ho-oh, Uh-ho-oh
With another you, and another me
Seems to me, our time has come
On and on, and on, and on
Left behind to waste away
Yeah, yeah
Seems to me, it's taken us down
It's taken us down
It's taken us down
Seems to be, the price to pay
On and on, and on, and on
This feels just like it's yesterday
Uh-ho-oh
When there's never a will, and there's a never a way
This feels just like it's meant to be
Uh-ho-oh, Uh-ho-oh
With another you, and another me
Oooo..
Oooo..
[etc]
You know too much about yourself
I said you know too much about yourself
This feels just like it's yesterday
Uh-ho-oh
When there's never a will, and there's a never a way
This feels just like it's meant to be
Uh-ho-oh, Uh-ho-oh
With another you, and another me
On and on, and on, and on
Closer than you ever wanted
On and on, and on, and on
Closer than you've ever been
On and on, and on, and on
Closer than you ever needed
On and on, and on, and on
And on
Here's to you, my lonely friend
On and on, and on, and on
Thanks to you, I never trusted, yeaaaah yeah.
Here's to you, my enemies
On and on, and on
Thanks to you, it's everlasting
On and on, and on, and on, and on [etc]
This feels just like it's yesterday
Uh-ho-oh Uh-ho-oh
When there's never a will, and there's never a way
This feels just like it's meant to be
Uh-ho-oh, Uh-ho-oh
With another you, and another me
Seems to me, our time has come
On and on, and on, and on
Left behind to waste away
Yeah, yeah
Seems to me, it's taken us down
It's taken us down
It's taken us down
Seems to be, the price to pay
On and on, and on, and on
This feels just like it's yesterday
Uh-ho-oh
When there's never a will, and there's a never a way
This feels just like it's meant to be
Uh-ho-oh, Uh-ho-oh
With another you, and another me
Oooo..
Oooo..
[etc]
You know too much about yourself
I said you know too much about yourself
This feels just like it's yesterday
Uh-ho-oh
When there's never a will, and there's a never a way
This feels just like it's meant to be
Uh-ho-oh, Uh-ho-oh
With another you, and another me
Lyrics submitted by aesthete
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