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"
If you had it all, if you had nothing at all
What would you do, not to see your tears fall
Sleeping so still with a little time to kill
Drink down this thought, swallow this pill
And the world would not move
So let me cry and sooth
The ink would never dry on page
Tears fall on words I say about you
About you, about you, about you
Days are just lonely, days are just only
Used up like school books, forgotten like fools, fools
It's a distant constellation dying in the corner of the sky
I'm not looking for a miracle, just an explanation why, about you
About you, about you, about you
About you, about you, about you, about you
'Bout you, about you, it's about you
What would you do, not to see your tears fall
Sleeping so still with a little time to kill
Drink down this thought, swallow this pill
And the world would not move
So let me cry and sooth
The ink would never dry on page
Tears fall on words I say about you
About you, about you, about you
Days are just lonely, days are just only
Used up like school books, forgotten like fools, fools
It's a distant constellation dying in the corner of the sky
I'm not looking for a miracle, just an explanation why, about you
About you, about you, about you
About you, about you, about you, about you
'Bout you, about you, it's about you
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