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"
You're on your own now, we're tired of lending hands
A new agenda, it cuts you from all our plans
So get in line boy, and keep that mouth of yours closed
Don't need opinions, just work them hands to bones
We stood in places, watched them tear us apart
cut us open, and ripped out all our parts
but we kept quiet, we let them have their way
We made our point by having nothing to say
We all broke up right on cue
We'll take you down with us too
Better jump ship, this bastard is sinking fast
nothing to save here
Our worth has all but passed,
the muddy waters are slippin in through the cracks
the ship, the ship, the ship is sinkin, the ship, the ship, the ship is sinkin
We sit on our hands and watched it all fall
No one blinks an eye (eye eye eye).
There's not much worth saving
just lots of buildings
and concrete colored skies
and you came and picked us up
you combed our hair, and made us look like people
and we learned to feed ourselves again
we built some homes and filled them full of clones
but we wont wait till you get back
we'll be gone long before you arrive
we were never built to last
but we'd like to tell ya
thanks for the good times, it was nice to have known ya
we'll all be just fine, and we'll try to write ya
we appreciate the lies, but were done believing you
A new agenda, it cuts you from all our plans
So get in line boy, and keep that mouth of yours closed
Don't need opinions, just work them hands to bones
We stood in places, watched them tear us apart
cut us open, and ripped out all our parts
but we kept quiet, we let them have their way
We made our point by having nothing to say
We all broke up right on cue
We'll take you down with us too
Better jump ship, this bastard is sinking fast
nothing to save here
Our worth has all but passed,
the muddy waters are slippin in through the cracks
the ship, the ship, the ship is sinkin, the ship, the ship, the ship is sinkin
We sit on our hands and watched it all fall
No one blinks an eye (eye eye eye).
There's not much worth saving
just lots of buildings
and concrete colored skies
and you came and picked us up
you combed our hair, and made us look like people
and we learned to feed ourselves again
we built some homes and filled them full of clones
but we wont wait till you get back
we'll be gone long before you arrive
we were never built to last
but we'd like to tell ya
thanks for the good times, it was nice to have known ya
we'll all be just fine, and we'll try to write ya
we appreciate the lies, but were done believing you
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