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"
goodbye to love.
i can push you on
right against the wall.
take apart your head
chew it up and swallow it.
goodbye to sins.
wish i could say
im sorry to my ex.
take apart your friends.
take your words back to your mouth
and swallow it.
but ill bet you know
pretty soon youll be back tonight.
ill never be what you have needed
because i never say anything right.
goodbye you liar.
just a step away
but i wish i could inspire.
take apart your brain.
take apart your lovers.
but ill bet you know
pretty soon youll be back tonight.
ill never be what you have needed
because i never say anything right.
i never say anything right.
im on my own.
i never say anything right.
im on my own.
i never say anything right, right?
i miss you all the time when i'm going to bed.
i love you so much that it hurts my head.
your friends are flying in down for the coast.
the storm is coming, the storm is coming.
miss you when you leave and it hurts a lot.
my life is a test and I get bad marks.
and so is this song that you gettin free.
the storm is coming, the storm is coming.
now i never say anything right.
im on my own.
i never say anything right.
im on my own.
i miss you all the time when i'm going to bed.
i love you so much that it hurts my head.
your friends are flying in down for the coast.
the storm is coming, the storm is coming.
miss you when you leave and it hurts a lot.
my life is a test and I get bad marks.
and so is this song that you gettin free.
the storm is coming, the storm is coming.
i can push you on
right against the wall.
take apart your head
chew it up and swallow it.
goodbye to sins.
wish i could say
im sorry to my ex.
take apart your friends.
take your words back to your mouth
and swallow it.
but ill bet you know
pretty soon youll be back tonight.
ill never be what you have needed
because i never say anything right.
goodbye you liar.
just a step away
but i wish i could inspire.
take apart your brain.
take apart your lovers.
but ill bet you know
pretty soon youll be back tonight.
ill never be what you have needed
because i never say anything right.
i never say anything right.
im on my own.
i never say anything right.
im on my own.
i never say anything right, right?
i miss you all the time when i'm going to bed.
i love you so much that it hurts my head.
your friends are flying in down for the coast.
the storm is coming, the storm is coming.
miss you when you leave and it hurts a lot.
my life is a test and I get bad marks.
and so is this song that you gettin free.
the storm is coming, the storm is coming.
now i never say anything right.
im on my own.
i never say anything right.
im on my own.
i miss you all the time when i'm going to bed.
i love you so much that it hurts my head.
your friends are flying in down for the coast.
the storm is coming, the storm is coming.
miss you when you leave and it hurts a lot.
my life is a test and I get bad marks.
and so is this song that you gettin free.
the storm is coming, the storm is coming.
Lyrics submitted by scottsh316
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