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"
Where everything looks so much better on the outside
Where every day's the same, will turn into a long night
Paid too much for losing touch
Because the apathy will crack me up in no time
Because insanity becomes a state of mind
It comes around again
That warning sound can wake me from my sleep
I've gotten into deep
But when you call I'll be ready for the flash
Got too heavy on the dark side
Tumble and fall
I've come a long way to get it back my friend
You took the credit for my lost right
How come it's still going on?
And when the councelling, it doesn't bring the silence
And when the craziness becomes a boring ride
I'll be around again
With every vow you take the best of me
The last thing that I needed
When you call I'll be ready for the flash
Got to heavy on the dark side
Tumble and fall
I've come a long way to get it back my friend
You took the credit for my lost right
How come it's still going on?
The time has come to ditch the agony and make another start
The time is up, I break the line and leave these words behind
Take back what was mine all along
When you call I'll be ready for the flash
Got to heavy on the dark side
Tumble and fall
I've come along way to get it back my friend
You took the credit for my lost right
How come it's still going on?
Way to get it back my friend
You took the credit for my lost right
How come I'm still going strong?
Where every day's the same, will turn into a long night
Paid too much for losing touch
Because the apathy will crack me up in no time
Because insanity becomes a state of mind
It comes around again
That warning sound can wake me from my sleep
I've gotten into deep
But when you call I'll be ready for the flash
Got too heavy on the dark side
Tumble and fall
I've come a long way to get it back my friend
You took the credit for my lost right
How come it's still going on?
And when the councelling, it doesn't bring the silence
And when the craziness becomes a boring ride
I'll be around again
With every vow you take the best of me
The last thing that I needed
When you call I'll be ready for the flash
Got to heavy on the dark side
Tumble and fall
I've come a long way to get it back my friend
You took the credit for my lost right
How come it's still going on?
The time has come to ditch the agony and make another start
The time is up, I break the line and leave these words behind
Take back what was mine all along
When you call I'll be ready for the flash
Got to heavy on the dark side
Tumble and fall
I've come along way to get it back my friend
You took the credit for my lost right
How come it's still going on?
Way to get it back my friend
You took the credit for my lost right
How come I'm still going strong?
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i love this song! More people should listen to it!