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"
Broke the ring around it,
I can't think about it,
I can barely start to even wrap my head around it,
Waters rise around us,
Sinking ships surround us,
I can't believe she even found a way inside to drown us,
I'm not so sure anymore what's next,
Or if there's anything left for us,
What will we find inside of the wreck.
Yeah we both know,
It's all just washed away.
Where do you go and what do you do?
When all you have left is hanging on you?
Where do you go and what do you do?
When you lose everything you ever knew?
Shine a light into it,
Shoot a canon through it,
Spill it all, and hope you find a way to make it through it,
Cos down is up and up is down
And love lies dying on the ground
You find a line that's in the sand and figure out who drew it,
I'm not quite sure anymore what's next,
Or if there's anything left for us,
What will we find inside of the wreck,
Yeah we both know,
It's all just washed away.
Where do you go and what do you do?
When all you have left is hanging on you?
Where do you go and what do you do?
When you lose everything.
Broke the ring around it
And i can't think about it
I can barely start to wrap my head around it
Cos down is up and up is down
And love lies dying on the ground,
Find a line that's in the sand and figure out who drew it.
Where do you go and what do you do
When all you have left is hanging on you
Where do you go and what do you do When you lose everything you ever knew?
Where do you go and what do you do
When all that you have's been taken from you?
Where do you go and what do you do When you lose everything.
I can't think about it,
I can barely start to even wrap my head around it,
Waters rise around us,
Sinking ships surround us,
I can't believe she even found a way inside to drown us,
I'm not so sure anymore what's next,
Or if there's anything left for us,
What will we find inside of the wreck.
Yeah we both know,
It's all just washed away.
Where do you go and what do you do?
When all you have left is hanging on you?
Where do you go and what do you do?
When you lose everything you ever knew?
Shine a light into it,
Shoot a canon through it,
Spill it all, and hope you find a way to make it through it,
Cos down is up and up is down
And love lies dying on the ground
You find a line that's in the sand and figure out who drew it,
I'm not quite sure anymore what's next,
Or if there's anything left for us,
What will we find inside of the wreck,
Yeah we both know,
It's all just washed away.
Where do you go and what do you do?
When all you have left is hanging on you?
Where do you go and what do you do?
When you lose everything.
Broke the ring around it
And i can't think about it
I can barely start to wrap my head around it
Cos down is up and up is down
And love lies dying on the ground,
Find a line that's in the sand and figure out who drew it.
Where do you go and what do you do
When all you have left is hanging on you
Where do you go and what do you do When you lose everything you ever knew?
Where do you go and what do you do
When all that you have's been taken from you?
Where do you go and what do you do When you lose everything.
Lyrics submitted by JTelements
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