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"
I've been trying, fixing the problem
You pressed the button
To launch yourself while I was outside
I heard a spark ignite
I saw a ball of light
I watched you lifting off
There could be no mistake
My hope and faith misplaced
I saw you lighting off
You pressed the button
To launch yourself , while I was outside
You left me standing
While you broke through the atmosphere
I guess you thought you'd start
A new clean sheet and heart
From when you lifted off
I watched you disappear
A ringing in my ear
From when you lifted off
You pressed the button
To launch yourself while I was outside
You left me stranded
While you broke through to other worlds
You left me stranded
While you broke through to other worlds
You pressed the button
To launch yourself while I was outside
You left me stranded
You launched yourself while I was outside
You pressed the button
To launch yourself while I was outside
You left me stranded
You launched yourself while I was outside
You pressed the button
To launch yourself while I was outside
I heard a spark ignite
I saw a ball of light
I watched you lifting off
There could be no mistake
My hope and faith misplaced
I saw you lighting off
You pressed the button
To launch yourself , while I was outside
You left me standing
While you broke through the atmosphere
I guess you thought you'd start
A new clean sheet and heart
From when you lifted off
I watched you disappear
A ringing in my ear
From when you lifted off
You pressed the button
To launch yourself while I was outside
You left me stranded
While you broke through to other worlds
You left me stranded
While you broke through to other worlds
You pressed the button
To launch yourself while I was outside
You left me stranded
You launched yourself while I was outside
You pressed the button
To launch yourself while I was outside
You left me stranded
You launched yourself while I was outside
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