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"
When will the pages stop turning?
How could there possible be this many?
My fingers are burning from turning
What feels like a million pages to me, no.
Makes no difference to me.
I'm up to me knees with miles to go.
No way to really know
What's left to find about the character,
Lending his life to the shortest ending.
Is this the end of the story finally coming?
Is this the end of the story finally?
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
Arguments, happiness, lie with a smile.
Popularity contests, and miracle miles of traveling
Weather for days; Skies were a blaze.
One thousand degrees even under the shade.
Trying everything just to finish this.
It's taking everything to keep me from giving this
All up for a chance to see the beginning and shortest ending.
Is this the end of the story finally coming?
Is this the end of the story finally?
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
No matter how hard I try to deny,
It denies me one hundred times more.
I could say everything right;
I'm still going to be wrong, just like I was before.
Well I'm starting the story again.
Understanding the way this will end
Will still be an end loose from pretending.
We will when we know that we won't,
Saying you do when you know that you don't.
Is this the end of the story finally coming?
Is this the end of the story finally?
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
Shortest ending!
How could there possible be this many?
My fingers are burning from turning
What feels like a million pages to me, no.
Makes no difference to me.
I'm up to me knees with miles to go.
No way to really know
What's left to find about the character,
Lending his life to the shortest ending.
Is this the end of the story finally coming?
Is this the end of the story finally?
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
Arguments, happiness, lie with a smile.
Popularity contests, and miracle miles of traveling
Weather for days; Skies were a blaze.
One thousand degrees even under the shade.
Trying everything just to finish this.
It's taking everything to keep me from giving this
All up for a chance to see the beginning and shortest ending.
Is this the end of the story finally coming?
Is this the end of the story finally?
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
No matter how hard I try to deny,
It denies me one hundred times more.
I could say everything right;
I'm still going to be wrong, just like I was before.
Well I'm starting the story again.
Understanding the way this will end
Will still be an end loose from pretending.
We will when we know that we won't,
Saying you do when you know that you don't.
Is this the end of the story finally coming?
Is this the end of the story finally?
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
It's a longest way to the shortest ending.
Shortest ending!
Lyrics submitted by TranceRufus
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