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"
Sure hope you enjoy the conversation
Hope it was worth aggravating me
This guy is in line for my lady
If I could alter time just to change a situation
I hope one day you'll find the truth
About those two
The best friend and the lover
You'll soon discover that they never told you a God damn thing
It's been years since I've seen you
And I think it's about time that you knew
Everything you were denied and refuse
Will be coming back to haunt you
Double-crossed
Betrayed
You were lied to
And deceived
I made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
Sure hope you enjoy the conversation
Hope it was worth aggravating me
This guy is in line for my lady
If I could alter time just to change a situation
What? You can't think, are you kidding me?
This influential third-party catastrophe
Has got you so wrapped up that you can't breathe
Or even speak to me
Double-crossed
Betrayed
I made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
I've made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison
I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison
I made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
I've made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
(I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison)
I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison
Hope it was worth aggravating me
This guy is in line for my lady
If I could alter time just to change a situation
I hope one day you'll find the truth
About those two
The best friend and the lover
You'll soon discover that they never told you a God damn thing
It's been years since I've seen you
And I think it's about time that you knew
Everything you were denied and refuse
Will be coming back to haunt you
Double-crossed
Betrayed
You were lied to
And deceived
I made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
Sure hope you enjoy the conversation
Hope it was worth aggravating me
This guy is in line for my lady
If I could alter time just to change a situation
What? You can't think, are you kidding me?
This influential third-party catastrophe
Has got you so wrapped up that you can't breathe
Or even speak to me
Double-crossed
Betrayed
I made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
I've made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison
I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison
I made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
I've made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
(I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison)
I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison
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I think it's "Hope it was worth aggravating me"
But the rest are great.
Thanks.
It is "Hope it was worth aggravation me" Cause I'm listening to it right now. Love this band. Love this song. YAY!
Thanks, I changed it.