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"
Rooftop crowns come crashing down
I can feel the wind under my skin
(Cellar doors, said I'd sell her, sell her doors)
(Sell her doors, said I'd sell her cellar doors)
You've got 28 days to figure me out, you know
Doctor, this is one game you'll never win
(Don't wanna sell her doors, stick it to me, teacher!)
(Show me the cellar door, show it to me doctor!)
Fear is nothing but God's way of
Telling you he really doesn't care if you sin
Father
Tell mother
My eyes are still burning
'Cause my ticket to heaven just now
Put a Texas hole in that hell on earth you call a home!
It feels good to know the weight of the world
Is light enough for the palm of my hand
Is it me? or am I stronger than yesterday's hero?
Take it, take it, take it from me
Hope falls
Late night calls
This is the last thing left to do
Bumper relays on freeways
I'll run the rest of the way to
Your bedroom
And our doom
Your lips have never looked this red
So kiss me
Or kill me
Mascara stains our last night's bed
Would you mind stripping off your rabbit suit?
Bad habits, too!
It's all I need to breathe!
'Cause frankly, Frank
I would mind taking up a chance or two
On someone other than you
Who's good enough for me!
(I've got 8 doorknobs for 7 doors)
(I'm still 6 feet deep still 5 foot 4)
(And there were three words you forgot to say)
(But its never too late)
You're just a two step away
And now I'm one step closer to death
So tell frank not to take the corner too sharp
'Cause I don't wanna have to cheat the death chart
28 days, 6 whole hours
Give me 42 minutes
And 24 heartbeats set me free...
I can feel the wind under my skin
(Cellar doors, said I'd sell her, sell her doors)
(Sell her doors, said I'd sell her cellar doors)
You've got 28 days to figure me out, you know
Doctor, this is one game you'll never win
(Don't wanna sell her doors, stick it to me, teacher!)
(Show me the cellar door, show it to me doctor!)
Fear is nothing but God's way of
Telling you he really doesn't care if you sin
Father
Tell mother
My eyes are still burning
'Cause my ticket to heaven just now
Put a Texas hole in that hell on earth you call a home!
It feels good to know the weight of the world
Is light enough for the palm of my hand
Is it me? or am I stronger than yesterday's hero?
Take it, take it, take it from me
Hope falls
Late night calls
This is the last thing left to do
Bumper relays on freeways
I'll run the rest of the way to
Your bedroom
And our doom
Your lips have never looked this red
So kiss me
Or kill me
Mascara stains our last night's bed
Would you mind stripping off your rabbit suit?
Bad habits, too!
It's all I need to breathe!
'Cause frankly, Frank
I would mind taking up a chance or two
On someone other than you
Who's good enough for me!
(I've got 8 doorknobs for 7 doors)
(I'm still 6 feet deep still 5 foot 4)
(And there were three words you forgot to say)
(But its never too late)
You're just a two step away
And now I'm one step closer to death
So tell frank not to take the corner too sharp
'Cause I don't wanna have to cheat the death chart
28 days, 6 whole hours
Give me 42 minutes
And 24 heartbeats set me free...
Lyrics submitted by mkid234, edited by gonesovereign
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