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"
Somewhere my body holds the memory of our tactile poetry
All those sonnets, sketched in finger-paints, the songs of you and me
How our skin hummed, electric, sparked like wires in the rain
That drenched us dueling fierce and hungry, until we both lay slain
I have it all up here, this dusty library in my head
Through its windows, snow blankets the garden of our bed
Well, if you gave me soap and penknife I could reinvent the wheel
But I can’t carve a life-size replica of just how good it feels
To have known a fraction of you for a fraction of the time
That we spent stripping back the molds we somehow thought were yours and mine
And the future sits, like stone blocks, under dustsheets in our hearts
Waiting, just to be uncovered, and for chiselling to start
Well, people have a name for it since Newton’s apple fell
You hold our love like a fallen apple, my hands shake, like William Tell
All those sonnets, sketched in finger-paints, the songs of you and me
How our skin hummed, electric, sparked like wires in the rain
That drenched us dueling fierce and hungry, until we both lay slain
I have it all up here, this dusty library in my head
Through its windows, snow blankets the garden of our bed
Well, if you gave me soap and penknife I could reinvent the wheel
But I can’t carve a life-size replica of just how good it feels
To have known a fraction of you for a fraction of the time
That we spent stripping back the molds we somehow thought were yours and mine
And the future sits, like stone blocks, under dustsheets in our hearts
Waiting, just to be uncovered, and for chiselling to start
Well, people have a name for it since Newton’s apple fell
You hold our love like a fallen apple, my hands shake, like William Tell
Lyrics submitted by stonechip
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