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"
this time, we've got a first class motive. we should start. i wrote it long ago and never wrote it off. try and we might. don't and...
et's take this outside so i can make another scene. i'll burn it on your, burn every bit of energy. dare to resist it. dare to be irresistable. i'd like to keep you right here always and forever. uncomplicated. we both know i can be unpredictable. i'll keep this from ever getting old. erase vertigo. i'm not far from home.
i am gonna go for a run across countries i have begged to drive up. if it wasn't obvious enough you are invited to come.
this time, we've got a first class motive. we should start. i wrote it long ago and never wrote it off. try and we might. don't and we will never know.
let's take this outside so i can make another scene. i'll burn it on your, burn every bit of energy. dare to resist it. dare to be irresistable. i'd like to keep you right here always and forever. if we can keep on the communication we'll determine our fate and our whole situation. this song will end but it can start again, and so can we. erase vertigo. don't be so careful.
i am gonna go for a run across countries i have begged to drive up. if it wasn't obvious enough you are invited to come.
this time, we've got a first class motive. we should start. i wrote it long ago and never wrote it off. try and we might. don't and we will never know.
take a risk. come take it on me. believe i'm a sure thing. all or nothing now and i would not trade you for anything.
just get me back to where i can watch you sleep, where i can feel comfortable in my own skin. heaven knows no one else can do that for me.
this time, we've got a first class motive. we should start. i wrote it long ago and never wrote it off. try and we might. don't and we will never know.
try and we might. don't forget december. it was only ashes anyway. that night was me and the moon. don't and we will never know.
et's take this outside so i can make another scene. i'll burn it on your, burn every bit of energy. dare to resist it. dare to be irresistable. i'd like to keep you right here always and forever. uncomplicated. we both know i can be unpredictable. i'll keep this from ever getting old. erase vertigo. i'm not far from home.
i am gonna go for a run across countries i have begged to drive up. if it wasn't obvious enough you are invited to come.
this time, we've got a first class motive. we should start. i wrote it long ago and never wrote it off. try and we might. don't and we will never know.
let's take this outside so i can make another scene. i'll burn it on your, burn every bit of energy. dare to resist it. dare to be irresistable. i'd like to keep you right here always and forever. if we can keep on the communication we'll determine our fate and our whole situation. this song will end but it can start again, and so can we. erase vertigo. don't be so careful.
i am gonna go for a run across countries i have begged to drive up. if it wasn't obvious enough you are invited to come.
this time, we've got a first class motive. we should start. i wrote it long ago and never wrote it off. try and we might. don't and we will never know.
take a risk. come take it on me. believe i'm a sure thing. all or nothing now and i would not trade you for anything.
just get me back to where i can watch you sleep, where i can feel comfortable in my own skin. heaven knows no one else can do that for me.
this time, we've got a first class motive. we should start. i wrote it long ago and never wrote it off. try and we might. don't and we will never know.
try and we might. don't forget december. it was only ashes anyway. that night was me and the moon. don't and we will never know.
Lyrics submitted by thestateradio
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