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"
Do you think, think
Everything, everyone is going mental?
It seems to me we're spiraling
Out of control and it's inevitable
Now don't you think
This time is yours, this time is mine?
It's temperamental
It seems to me, we're on all fours
Crawling on our knees, someone help us please
Oh, Jesus Christ, Almighty
Do I feel alright? No, not slightly
I wanna get a flat, I know I can't afford it
It's just the bureaucrats that won't give me a mortgage
It's very funny 'cause I got your fucking money
And I'm never gonna get it just 'cause of my bad credit
Oh well, I guess I mustn't grumble
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles
Oh, yes, I'm fine
And everything's just wonderful
I'm having the time of my life
Don't you want something else
Something new, than what we got here?
And don't you feel it's all the same
Some sick game, and it's so insincere?
I wish I could change the ways of the world
Make it a nice place
Until that day, I guess we stay
Doing what we do, screwing who we screw
Why can't I sleep at night?
Don't say "it's gonna be alright"
I wanna be able to eat spaghetti Bolognese
And not feel bad about it for days and days and days
All the magazines, they talk about weight loss
If I buy those jeans, I can look like Kate Moss
I know it's not the life that I chose
But I guess it's just the way that things go
Oh, yes, I'm fine
And everything's just wonderful
I'm having the time of my life
Oh, yes, I'm fine
And everything's just wonderful
I'm having the time of my life
Oh, Jesus Christ, Almighty
Do I feel alright? No, not slightly
I wanna get a flat, I know I can't afford it
It's just the bureaucrats that won't give me a mortgage
It's very funny 'cause I got your fucking money
And I'm never gonna get it just 'cause of my bad credit
Oh well, I guess I mustn't grumble
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles
But I guess that's just the way that things go
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles
But I guess that's just the way that things go
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles
Everything, everyone is going mental?
It seems to me we're spiraling
Out of control and it's inevitable
Now don't you think
This time is yours, this time is mine?
It's temperamental
It seems to me, we're on all fours
Crawling on our knees, someone help us please
Oh, Jesus Christ, Almighty
Do I feel alright? No, not slightly
I wanna get a flat, I know I can't afford it
It's just the bureaucrats that won't give me a mortgage
It's very funny 'cause I got your fucking money
And I'm never gonna get it just 'cause of my bad credit
Oh well, I guess I mustn't grumble
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles
Oh, yes, I'm fine
And everything's just wonderful
I'm having the time of my life
Don't you want something else
Something new, than what we got here?
And don't you feel it's all the same
Some sick game, and it's so insincere?
I wish I could change the ways of the world
Make it a nice place
Until that day, I guess we stay
Doing what we do, screwing who we screw
Why can't I sleep at night?
Don't say "it's gonna be alright"
I wanna be able to eat spaghetti Bolognese
And not feel bad about it for days and days and days
All the magazines, they talk about weight loss
If I buy those jeans, I can look like Kate Moss
I know it's not the life that I chose
But I guess it's just the way that things go
Oh, yes, I'm fine
And everything's just wonderful
I'm having the time of my life
Oh, yes, I'm fine
And everything's just wonderful
I'm having the time of my life
Oh, Jesus Christ, Almighty
Do I feel alright? No, not slightly
I wanna get a flat, I know I can't afford it
It's just the bureaucrats that won't give me a mortgage
It's very funny 'cause I got your fucking money
And I'm never gonna get it just 'cause of my bad credit
Oh well, I guess I mustn't grumble
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles
But I guess that's just the way that things go
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles
But I guess that's just the way that things go
I suppose it's just the way the cookie crumbles
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Both lines are there. The first part of the verse is essentially in four-line stanzas - "And it's inevitable" is the last line of one, "Now don't you think" is the first line of the next. See my comment.