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"
Here's comes the rumour mill
and I'm not even trying
It's a game of cat and mouse
but I can't tell who's lying
He's spreading rumours
You can tell by the way I walk
That I am frightened
They're bearing down on me
What have I done to spite them?
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
Can't hear myself over the sound of the chatter
They keep on lying to you, they keep on lying to you
Here comes the vango man
It seems he's delirious
He keeps mocking me
I can't tell if he's serious
He's serious!
Have you seen how he jokes and he smiles?
Yet he sleeps like a child
Tall tales cliques and whispers
Tell of secret kisses
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
Can't hear myself over the sound of the chatter
They keep on lying to you, they keep on lying to you
Here comes the bitter pill
But I don't think he'll take it
I won't take it
Like you I'm scared of everything they're saying
But I know there's no other way, there's no other way
Tall tales cliques and whispers
Tell of secret kisses
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
Can't hear myself over the sound of the chatter
And you'll be sorry when you...
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
Can't hear myself over the sound of the chatter
They keep on lying to you
And you'll be sorry when you came to your senses!
and I'm not even trying
It's a game of cat and mouse
but I can't tell who's lying
He's spreading rumours
You can tell by the way I walk
That I am frightened
They're bearing down on me
What have I done to spite them?
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
Can't hear myself over the sound of the chatter
They keep on lying to you, they keep on lying to you
Here comes the vango man
It seems he's delirious
He keeps mocking me
I can't tell if he's serious
He's serious!
Have you seen how he jokes and he smiles?
Yet he sleeps like a child
Tall tales cliques and whispers
Tell of secret kisses
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
Can't hear myself over the sound of the chatter
They keep on lying to you, they keep on lying to you
Here comes the bitter pill
But I don't think he'll take it
I won't take it
Like you I'm scared of everything they're saying
But I know there's no other way, there's no other way
Tall tales cliques and whispers
Tell of secret kisses
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
Can't hear myself over the sound of the chatter
And you'll be sorry when you...
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
They keep on lying like they won't really matter
And then those lies they just scatter and scatter
Can't hear myself over the sound of the chatter
They keep on lying to you
And you'll be sorry when you came to your senses!
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perfect song to describe those situations when with a guy or a gilr and your are nothing but friends but everyone is talking about what u have done not done and your freinds around you jsut spread mroe and more crap untill its one big ball that the thigns they said you have done might aswell have happened because noone is gonna belive u even if it aint sort of a catch 22