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"
Sarah jones is acting out a monologue
To teach the world about justice
What women want
"I'm not an
Object!"
She screams with eyes on fire
The crowd goes wild
She's preaching to the choir
W. is making love to
Shareholders who own a piece of sunshine
We own the world
"oil is our saviour!
Now we can all retire"
A billion reasons why
He's preaching to the choir
yeah I wanna find some friends
Some common ground
Where everything is fine and
Everything is easy
Yeah I'm gonna speak my mind
And sing out loud
Where everyone is kind
And everyone who sees me nods
moses junior on the streets of hollywood
Shouting meets a sinner
"god save your soul"
"repent,repent
The devil is a liar"
A brick screams out the cost
(of)not preaching to the choir
To teach the world about justice
What women want
"I'm not an
Object!"
She screams with eyes on fire
The crowd goes wild
She's preaching to the choir
W. is making love to
Shareholders who own a piece of sunshine
We own the world
"oil is our saviour!
Now we can all retire"
A billion reasons why
He's preaching to the choir
yeah I wanna find some friends
Some common ground
Where everything is fine and
Everything is easy
Yeah I'm gonna speak my mind
And sing out loud
Where everyone is kind
And everyone who sees me nods
moses junior on the streets of hollywood
Shouting meets a sinner
"god save your soul"
"repent,repent
The devil is a liar"
A brick screams out the cost
(of)not preaching to the choir
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