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're still shakin'
With your ass down on Fairfax
You're out so late
But nobody said that you are so late
Your friends come hot
With plenty of cocaine
But you don't hate
Who's got your back on the night you hesitate
You could talk all night
Your mascara paints my bed
Well it can't be right
But that's the only way
That I can get you wet
Well it's all over now
And you're still the same
But I'm still, I'm still okay
Well you got me down
I was so ashamed
But you're still, you're still the same
I see you looking for your face on the TV
And you're smiling back
But you never looked at anyone real like that
Why'd you think that I was so unwilling
You loved me so hard
And it's hard to love
When you don't know who you are
Say you wanna be saved
But all your friends are villians
Oh you hate your way
Why do you cut yourself - to feel it
Well it's all over now
And you're still the same
But I'm still, I'm still okay
Well you got me down
I was so to blame
And you're still, you're still the same
All the boy can do is make you mad
What's wrong with that
You say you need a man to understand
But I'm all you have
Woah..
Well it's all over now
And you're still the same
But I'm still, I'm still okay
And you got me down
I'm the only one to blame
Cause you're still, you're still the same
Well it's all over now
I wish you to stay
Well I'm still, I'm still okay
And you got me down
But I'm not ashamed
Caused you're still, you're still, you're still..
The same
With your ass down on Fairfax
You're out so late
But nobody said that you are so late
Your friends come hot
With plenty of cocaine
But you don't hate
Who's got your back on the night you hesitate
You could talk all night
Your mascara paints my bed
Well it can't be right
But that's the only way
That I can get you wet
Well it's all over now
And you're still the same
But I'm still, I'm still okay
Well you got me down
I was so ashamed
But you're still, you're still the same
I see you looking for your face on the TV
And you're smiling back
But you never looked at anyone real like that
Why'd you think that I was so unwilling
You loved me so hard
And it's hard to love
When you don't know who you are
Say you wanna be saved
But all your friends are villians
Oh you hate your way
Why do you cut yourself - to feel it
Well it's all over now
And you're still the same
But I'm still, I'm still okay
Well you got me down
I was so to blame
And you're still, you're still the same
All the boy can do is make you mad
What's wrong with that
You say you need a man to understand
But I'm all you have
Woah..
Well it's all over now
And you're still the same
But I'm still, I'm still okay
And you got me down
I'm the only one to blame
Cause you're still, you're still the same
Well it's all over now
I wish you to stay
Well I'm still, I'm still okay
And you got me down
But I'm not ashamed
Caused you're still, you're still, you're still..
The same
Lyrics submitted by younglove_r
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Silly cocaine addicted girlfriends.