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"
You broke down on a Tuesday night
Stuck inside the same old fight
Feelin' like you've been through this before
And stormin' out of your front door
And this is not your day
Shouldn't have to be this way
Pull your jacket on against your head and face the rain
You walk down to the corner store
You don't know what you go there for
The one hand wants to drink away the pain
The other wants to feel it all again
But you're a mess inside
Things are gone that you can't hide
So let your troubles slide
And I will try to break your fall
Yeah, well alright
You saved me from another night
Without somebody next to mine
Yeah, well alright
Wake up with the sun and I'll be gone
There's nothing left for you to feel
Circumstance that brought you here
Words don't even have to be exchanged
And nothing needs to be explained
You can blame it all
On every hand that lets you fall
Or one to many nights that you've spent wasted by the phone
So disconnect your head from this
And fall into the strangers kiss
We can take a holiday from all this suffocating self-control
And you can be my bride
If only for a Tuesday night
Someday I might just be that vacation you've been waiting for
Yeah, well alright
You saved me from another night
Without somebody next to mine
Yeah, well alright
Wake up with the sun and I'll be gone
Yeah, well alright
You saved me from another night
Without somebody next to mine
Yeah, well alright
Wake up with the sun and I'll be gone
Stuck inside the same old fight
Feelin' like you've been through this before
And stormin' out of your front door
And this is not your day
Shouldn't have to be this way
Pull your jacket on against your head and face the rain
You walk down to the corner store
You don't know what you go there for
The one hand wants to drink away the pain
The other wants to feel it all again
But you're a mess inside
Things are gone that you can't hide
So let your troubles slide
And I will try to break your fall
Yeah, well alright
You saved me from another night
Without somebody next to mine
Yeah, well alright
Wake up with the sun and I'll be gone
There's nothing left for you to feel
Circumstance that brought you here
Words don't even have to be exchanged
And nothing needs to be explained
You can blame it all
On every hand that lets you fall
Or one to many nights that you've spent wasted by the phone
So disconnect your head from this
And fall into the strangers kiss
We can take a holiday from all this suffocating self-control
And you can be my bride
If only for a Tuesday night
Someday I might just be that vacation you've been waiting for
Yeah, well alright
You saved me from another night
Without somebody next to mine
Yeah, well alright
Wake up with the sun and I'll be gone
Yeah, well alright
You saved me from another night
Without somebody next to mine
Yeah, well alright
Wake up with the sun and I'll be gone
Lyrics submitted by thirtynotes
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