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"
It's your decision, it's not up to me, and I've seen it all before got a wardrobe full of T's,
You got the hunger, you got four-wheel drive, you want to reach for the heaven want to touch the sky,
You wanna be the big man, you got big plans, big ambitions you got dreams,
So what's the big idea?
Take my advice keep it simple, keep it real,
So you're the competition, you've made that clear, the new boy on the block and you got no fear,
When you're at the bottom you can only climb, you might just make it to the top given time!
You wanna be the big man, you got big plans, big ambitions you got dreams,
So what's the big idea?
Welcome to my city, welcome to my world, if you really think you can make then hang on to your soul,
It all comes down to favours and who or what you know,
Bending rules so slightly, being right when you're wrong,
In the right place at the right time in the right mind to blow away the field,
What you need most of all is a big idea!
I sense the instinct, I sense desire, your motivation is something we all recognise,
You're something special, something new, you're passion, fire and anger is something we could use,
You wanna be the big man, you got big plans, big ambitions you got dreams,
So what's the big idea?
You wanna be the big man, you got big plans, big ambitions you got dreams,
So what's the big idea?
Take my advice keep it simple, keep it real,
Got to do the numbers, got to do the math, you could feather your nest you might take a bath, maybe too hot blooded, you got to be cold,
Bow down to the power do what your told
Till you're in the right place at the right time in the right mind to blow away the field,
What you need most of all is a big idea!
You got the hunger, you got four-wheel drive, you want to reach for the heaven want to touch the sky,
You wanna be the big man, you got big plans, big ambitions you got dreams,
So what's the big idea?
Take my advice keep it simple, keep it real,
So you're the competition, you've made that clear, the new boy on the block and you got no fear,
When you're at the bottom you can only climb, you might just make it to the top given time!
You wanna be the big man, you got big plans, big ambitions you got dreams,
So what's the big idea?
Welcome to my city, welcome to my world, if you really think you can make then hang on to your soul,
It all comes down to favours and who or what you know,
Bending rules so slightly, being right when you're wrong,
In the right place at the right time in the right mind to blow away the field,
What you need most of all is a big idea!
I sense the instinct, I sense desire, your motivation is something we all recognise,
You're something special, something new, you're passion, fire and anger is something we could use,
You wanna be the big man, you got big plans, big ambitions you got dreams,
So what's the big idea?
You wanna be the big man, you got big plans, big ambitions you got dreams,
So what's the big idea?
Take my advice keep it simple, keep it real,
Got to do the numbers, got to do the math, you could feather your nest you might take a bath, maybe too hot blooded, you got to be cold,
Bow down to the power do what your told
Till you're in the right place at the right time in the right mind to blow away the field,
What you need most of all is a big idea!
Lyrics submitted by BitterBosh
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